Geoffrey Hughes

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Teacher, Ethnographer, Arabist; Lecturer in Anthropology and author of Affection and Mercy: Kinship, Islam and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan ♥️🇯🇴♥️🇵🇸 (he/هو)

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As someone for whom Bedouin and/or Arab tribal traditions of justice often come to mind whenever someone talks about a non-carceral justice system, this is a must-read! By my friend @geofffhughes.bsky.social

Feel like the people saying Biden's "humanitarian" pier in Gaza scheme will be ineffective PR are being too optimistic. Most US humanitarian interventions eventually spiral into the US shooting at the ostensible beneficiaries of the humanitarian intervention...

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It’s been long enough since 7 October that UK papers have gone back to their bread and butter: uncritical reporting of the current gov’s plan to ban free speech alongside articles on how in order to be free we must have random undergrad essay competitions debating the existence of trans women

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I encourage those who are concerned with academic freedom in the UK to sign.

Update: there is now an open letter to UKRI here, calling on them to reject this attack on academic freedom and political interference in the decision-making and governance of UKRI. I would invite academic colleagues to sign and share docs.google.com/document/d/e...

UKRI open letter (public)docs.google.com

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Prove you’re human. Prove you stand on two legs. Run.

Excited for our brave new liberal world in which your access to human rights is determined in part by how a certain number of people in your country who took a phonecall responded to some poli sci values survey...

The situation is certainly "complex" but can we all agree that any Westerner offering unsolicited tactical advice to Palestinians living under occupation should be launched into Gaza?

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"Settlers always think they’re defending themselves. That’s why they build forts on other people’s land. And then they freak out over the fact that they are surrounded. And they’re still surrounded." - Fred Moten

"Civilian ethos as a matter of liberal sensibility requires innocence, political passivity, lack of movement, and fixity... Palestinians... do not pass the test of this ethos... to the contrary. In the name of civilian normalcy, the a-civilian must be obliterated." www.madamasr.com/en/2023/10/1...

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For @nplusonemag.bsky.social, I wrote about how we're living through the post-9/11 period all over again, in all the worst ways

Have We Learned Nothing? | David Klionwww.nplusonemag.com There’s a pervasive censoriousness right now—conservatives denouncing liberals, liberals denouncing leftists, leftists denouncing other leftists—that’s immediately familiar from the days and w...

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Isaac Chotiner talks to Tariq Baconi about Hamas and Gaza, and it is good www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Where the Palestinian Political Project Goes from Herewww.newyorker.com For decades, Hamas and Israel have maintained a violent equilibrium. How will the war change that paradigm?

Trying to work but distracted by not just the ongoing atrocity being committed in Gaza but also checking to make sure it's still legal in Britain to use words and phrases like "P*lestine", "From the r*ver to the sea"...

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‘At the root of the tactics making mourning for Palestinians impossible is a demand that Palestinians be perfect victims.’ Digging up this piece by Noura Erakat because it is timely www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4503...

Grieving Palestinian Lifewww.jadaliyya.com On Monday 2 May 2023, Sheikh Khader Adnan died on day eighty-seven of a hunger strike in Israeli captivity. His arrest on 5 February 2023 was his thirteenth arrest by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) a...

'As a resident of Rafah put it [in 2001(!)]: “This is worse than prison…. In prison, you can be safe. Here you are in danger all the time.”' merip.org/2015/06/gaza...

Guys, what's stopping you from posting like this on blue sky?

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I’m fundraising to pay my solicitors fees following a conviction for failing to leave the road during an anti-fascist counter-demo at the Honor Oak Pub in June. Please share widely and contribute if you feel able to 💕 opencollective.com/south-london...

South London Love Fundraising - Open Collectiveopencollective.com Opposing the far-right in South London

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Katalin Karikó on the status economy of academia. She’s the hero we don’t deserve. Source: josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-...

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Sharing the statement @anthrofuentes.bsky.social, @robingnelson.bsky.social, and I wrote about that "sex is binary" panel. Apologies for the formatting mistakes in the references - those are mine! We were working under a serious time crunch but I'm proud of what we wrote. 🧪 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM

Letter of Support for AAA’s Withdrawal of Session from the Annual Meeting - The American Anthropol...americananthro.org We are writing in support of the American Anthropological Association’s decision to withdraw the “Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby” session from the Annual Meeting. The session itself makes a number...

Transphobia aside, this might be the worst abstract I've ever read in my life:

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"Authoritarian regimes and tech companies possess a striking similarity: an appetite for information about their populations. While Big Tech leverages this data for advertising profits, authoritarian states use it to tighten their grip on their populations." merip.org/2023/09/big-... #BigTech

Big Tech’s Partnership with Authoritarianism - MERIPmerip.org A perspective on the role of major tech corporations in fueling repression.

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At the Centre for Gulf Studies at Exeter we are starting a virtual seminar series, inaugurated by Mohammed Al Sudairi (24 October, 17:00 London time). You can sign up here: universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Imagining what it's like to slap a label like that on an X axis...

Some fascinating pieces in the new issue of PolAR on Remnants of Empire, featuring reflections on the Work of Talal Asad, Anne Stoler, Veena Das and others: polarjournal.org/2023/09/20/r...

My new article challenges what I see as an over-investment in “coevalness” in contemporary ethnographic theory and practice.

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