@sabrinahartoto
Anthropologist | Researcher at UZH Exploring land, environment, and feminist resistance across Indonesian frontiers and beyond. Walking muddy roads, weaving stories of care, struggle, and multispecies futures. Cat Mommy.
My first-ever, single-authored article is out in the Journal of Peasant Studies! Comparing sugar and infrastructure frontiers, it explores how technologies of dispossession shape frontier-making and state power in Indonesia across scale and time.
Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Panel description feminist and gendered geographies of resistance
Please join us! I am co-convening 3 Royal Geographical Society panels on Feminist and Gendered Geographies of Resistance with @zalifung.bsky.social and Rebecca Elmhirst at the University of Birmingham next week. A great lineup of presentations. bit.ly/4lgkPnk @rgsibg.bsky.social
Social movements play an essential role pushing for action on climate and nature, and itโs now widely recognised that support from scientists can make them more effective
But not everyone can take to the streets or risk arrest
Thatโs ok โ thereโs lots we can do in other ways
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Post-Doc Announcement
Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral
Fellowship in Sustainability
2026 Call for Applications
Applications Due: October 20, 2025
Link: www.atkinson.cornell.edu/cornell-atki...
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Her name is Flรผffie.
The title of this collection points to our refusal of exceptionalist framings of settler colonialism. Horrifically devastating in terms of the speed and scale of death and destruction of Palestinian life (given the high-tech weaponry and massive amounts of continuous funding by the U.S. government) as a land-centered project, Israelโs โelimination of the nativeโ resembles other settler colonial genocides. The challenge is to make explicit how exceptionalism has historically isolated Palestine (politically and epistemologically) from other cases. We reiterate the urgency of the Palestinian condition and the role of Palestinian resistance in shaping global anti-colonial thought. As The Red Nation put it, โWe have always believed Palestine is the tip of the spear in the fight against colonialism, the guiding light toward liberation and decolonization everywhere.โ Thus, we center Palestine as an urgent site that compels our analytic (and ethical-political) attention, not as a singular or definitive instance of settler colonialism, but one which is streaming live in real timeโrevealing the core logics of domination, elimination, dispossession, and replacement that have been underway across diverse geographies and temporalities and in different stages of violent elimination (both historically and in contemporary times).
"We reiterate the urgency of the Palestinian condition and the role of Palestinian resistance in shaping global anti-colonial thought." Read more from J. Kฤhaulani Kauanui and Ather Zia's introduction here: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
In the first three days, we hosted interdisciplinary offering diverse perspectives on the theories and practices of commons and commoning.
Now that the students are out in the field, weโre excited to see the insights and creative reflections theyโll bring back on Zurichโs urban commons!
From green and aquatic spaces to housing cooperatives, water fountains to cultural hubs, participants are engaging in ethnographic fieldwork and producing multimodal research.
ISEK 2025 Summer School is officially underway!
As part of ourย Southeast Asia in Motionย series, this yearโs Summer School brings together students from SEA and the University of Zurich to collaboratively explore Zurichโs urban commons.
#ISEK #UZH #SummerSchool #SoutheastAsiaInMotion #UrbanCommons
The Canadian Southeast Asian Studies Initiative is accepting applications for a Visiting Scholar. Only a week left to apply!
App Deadline: June 26th
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Full list of brave people the Israel Occupation Forces have kidnapped in international waters today
CFA: The Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University is accepting applications for a part-time Lecturer in Southeast Asian History for the Fall 2025 Tufts Civic Semester! More details are in the image below.
To apply, email a CV and cover letter to jessica.crowe_rothstein@tufts.edu.
Scents and imagination symposium, 4 June 2025.
๐ท In what ways do scents shape our imagination, and how can we imagine the smellscapes of the past?
Join us on 4 June for โScent and Imaginationโ, a multidisciplinary symposium on the relationship between scent and imagination involving academic, artistic and practical activities
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As Gazaโs infrastructure is reduced to rubble, animals are dying quietly in destroyed zoos and shelters. Hadeel Farhat exposes this often unseen dimension of Israelโs warโwhere the destruction reaches every corner of life in Gaza.
www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
The health ministry has released a new 1,000-page document with the names, ages and other info, of 52,959 Palestinians killed in Gaza. For the first 100 pages (over 5,000 names), the age is listed at 5 years or younger. The first 18 pages the age is listed as 0 (under 1 year)
Just try to process this.
Join @uhcseas.bsky.social for the panel discussion โJames C. Scottโs Scholarship on Southeast Asia and Beyondโ to reflect on the influence of Professor James C. Scott and his contributions to research and the field of Southeast Asian studies.
May 5 @ 3:00 PM (HST)
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I'm hiring! 2 x PhDs and 1 x PostDoc, to work with me at Uni Zurich on a project investigating how semantic patterns differ by geographic region.
Linguistic typology, data science, spatial analysis, phylogenetic methods, potential fieldwork... REPOST ๐
www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/jobs.html
Check this out! Great opportunity for recent PhDs #postdoc #AsianStudies
ETH Zรผrich insists that they take no side on politics, while we are aware that science and technology are political matters.
What would their beloved Albert Einstein say about this? Well, we can read first hand his position on politics ๐
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Donating to this. When profs are persecuted for speaking truth to power, we need solidarity.
Palestinians are subject to a clear strategy of ethnic cleansing, and I don't want to work in a system where such facts are not allowed to be spoken.
๐ฃ JOB ALERT
PostDoc (3+3 years) and PhD (3 years) in Cultural Geography/Society-Environment Research in the new Society-Environment Research Group at @fau.de
Deadline: 28 March 2025.
More info here:
www.geographie.nat.fau.de/job-offer-po...
Do get in touch with any questions!
2 doctoral positions in anthropology available @carsoncenter.bsky.social in the ERC-funded project โChanging Environments, Changing Childhoods: A Cross-Environmental Ethnography of Moral Socialization in Three Small-Scale Societiesโ www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...
The Dept of Anthropology at UC-Davis is hiring a sociocultural anthropologist scholar with a cutting-edge, ethnographically-grounded research agenda whose work addresses key topics in Palestine Studies. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06996
