Anthropologist at Utrecht University. Associate editor Asian Anthropology. Tweets about: China, mobilities, gender, race, COVID-19, labour, and visual methods.
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Joined February 2013
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Interested in doing a PhD in our department of anthropology at Utrecht University? Check out three PhD vacancies in Tessa Diphoorn's ERC-project "Making Sense of Communities of Arms": uu.nl/en/organisation/workin…
Check out the most recent issue of Asian Anthropology (which appeared quietly during the summer break) with exciting publications by Jamila Rodrigues, Shao-Yun Chang, Richard Fraser, and Anapuma KP: tandfonline.com/toc/raan20/2…
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@WillySier and Elena Barabantseva explore how mixed Chinese-foreign individuals experience #racialized belonging and identity through public debates about #mixedrace celebrities, highlighting the tension between China's growing #immigrant society and its stricter #nationalidentity.
You can read the full article here: doi.org/10.1080/01419870.202…
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"Happy Days: Talking Marriage in China’s Rural-Urban Migrant Families" by @WillySier Willy Sier
Part of //Photographic “Returns” to Field Sites//, a new AES collection edited by Christina Kefala & Ipsita Dey
@kefalachristina @Ipsita_Dey17
Read it here:
americanethnologist.org/onli…
Come join our lively department! Looking for 1 PhD and 3 postdocs on infrastructure imperialism: uu.nl/en/organisation/workin…
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📢Come work with us! We are hiring a full professor #Anthropology of Health & Health Care @UvA_AISSR #anthrotwitter academictransfer.com/en/3431…
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📢Looking for (visual) #anthro/#STS researcher for a PhD project on human-animal relations, technology and multimodal methods. Applicants can apply with their own project idea! You'll be working with @IldikoZonga, Martha Dietrich & me as supervisory team🤗 vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Ope…
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We all die. But how we deal with death continuously changes. Yvon van der Pijl explains it all in this new article entitled "Doodnormaal." uitagendautrecht.nl/artikele… She will also be part of a theater performance on the subject in April!
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Join us today at the Grote Language Debat at @UniUtrecht, organized by @UYA_Utrecht.
We will discuss when, where, and how English is and can be used in Dutch academia.
When: april 5th, 15-17.00
Where: Bestuursgebouw, V.L. Egginkzaal
uu.nl/agenda/the-grote-uuuya…
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WELCOME to our new PhD candidate Lorelie Tummers! Lorelie she has been awarded the #NWO #MosaicGrant to support her research on the experience of racialization among adoptees of color in the Netherlands
Proud to be part of this special issue on the spectacle of the Chinese city, edited by Dennis Zuev & Madlen Kobi. With @SanderienV
The introduction: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.……
Our multi-modal article: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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We are recruiting! A fully-funded PhD position on an ethnographic study of business communities in Mumbai and their climate response! Submit your application before 6 March 2024! More info 👇 and at generic.wordpress.soton.ac.u…. Apply at pirs.soton.ac.uk/apply/
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PUBLICATION ALERT: Special Issue on the "Everyday Political Economy of Private Security" of our colleague Tessa Diphoorn (@TessaDiphoorn), including articles on Israel, Mexico, the UK, Brazil and Sweden. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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How are white women #racialized in China? How do they confront stereotypes about their Chinese husbands?
From #Identities' latest issue, by @WillySier
@tandfhss #migration #whiteness #OA
With #OpenAccess ⬇️
doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.202…
Vanavond op NPO2, onze nieuwe doc "Baby-stress in China"! Allemaal even wakker blijven aub om te kijken om 23.28u: human.nl/2doc-kort/kijk/over…
Our latest documentary "Baby-Stress in China", made in collaboration with Xu Xiaotou, will be broadcast on NPO2/HUMAN on January 27 at 11.28 pm and 6 January at 2.20 pm! Please watch!
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We will have a new PhD candidate joining our department in the next months as a result of the NWO Mosaic Programme. Lorelie Tummers will conduct research on the “Roots of Resilience: Unearthing the Experience of Racialization among Transnational Adoptees in the Netherlands.”
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How are white women #racialized in China? How do they confront stereotypes about their Chinese husbands?
From #Identities' latest issue, by @WillySier
@tandfhss #migration #whiteness #OA
With #OpenAccess ⬇️
doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.202…
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From the #IdentitiesBlog, based on our latest issue article by @WillySier exploring #racial dynamics in relationships between white women & Chinese men in China:
'Racializing romance in relationships between Chinese men and white/Yang women in China'
identitiesjournal.com/blog-c…
