Claira Turvey
Sustainable development & social anthropology. Exploring multisolving, multispecies & more-than-human relations, decolonisation, cognitive justice and reparations 🌿
🌱 A lesson from nature everyday: https://naturalthinkinglab.substack.com
🕸️ Edinburgh
- Reposted by Claira TurveyFlowers in a French garden in 1920. Despite being taken 106yrs ago there’s an exquisite three-dimensional quality to this original colour (not colourised) photo.
- Reposted by Claira TurveyIn our newest issue of Transforming Anthropology, Dr. Pyar Seth’s article, “A Wayward Method: Zora Neale Hurston’s Critical Fabulation,” offers a powerful reading of Hurston’s enduring influence on how Black life is studied, written, and imagined.
- Reposted by Claira TurveyAs we open Black History Month, we honor Zora Neale Hurston—an anthropologist who refused to treat Black life as a problem, an absence, or an object to be explained.
- Reposted by Claira TurveyIn this essay, I examine the origins and meanings of the word "decolonisation." It is often thrown about with the presumption that we all agree on its meaning, despite strong contrary evidence. But where did the word come from? What has it been used to mean? folukeafrica.com/the-trouble-...
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- Reposted by Claira TurveyFlowers Today
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- Reposted by Claira TurveyThe magic of an Imbolc evening, sharpening and cleansing the blood; presenting us with fresh clear spaces to grow into, and to fill up with whatever we so desire.
- Reposted by Claira TurveyAcademics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
- Reposted by Claira TurveyThe map's form: spells It shows: a dialect continuum Its purpose: to teach
- Reposted by Claira TurveyA canyon towhee (Melozone fusca), blending in well with the drab colors of winter. Photo taken in the west foothills of the Sandia Mountains, next to Albuquerque, on January 30, 2026. #nature #naturephotography #birds
- Reposted by Claira TurveyTurns out I wasn't the naive one. Turns out I wasn't over-reacting. Maybe you aren't either.
- Reposted by Claira TurveyIt's succulent blooming season! Most beautiful shapes 😭💕
- Reposted by Claira TurveySomething beautiful for this day: Honeybee on sedum, Yakima, Washington (September 2024). #bees #flowers
- Reposted by Claira TurveyCheck out our website for the Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire research network! The network brings together a wide range of scholars engaged in the praxis of embedding the teaching of race, colonialism and empire into their work. sites.google.com/view/critica...
- Reposted by Claira TurveyTomorrow we will host a livestream about Decolonization. Kadija George Sesay who is a literary activist, writer, and scholar, she will speak and answer your questions. Come along! www.youtube.com/live/RvoB6mg...
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- Reposted by Claira TurveyRemember almost 10 yrs ago, in 2016 when Trump won his 1st election? Days later, many of us shared @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's newest column "We're headed into dark times. This is how to be your own light in the Age of Trump." Did you do what she suggested? Read it now, do it again, or start.
- Reposted by Claira TurveySarah is one of the most insightful observers and writers on America and its impact on the world. On top of that, she writes with a lucidity and fluidity that flows like a mountain stream in a summer dell... infiltrating your mind while lifting your soul. Worth following:
- Reposted by Claira TurveyLove Letters opens today at the National Archives, Kew. Free, no booking required. Closes 12 April 2026.
- Reposted by Claira TurveyThe map's form: leaf – large It shows: days Its purpose: to chart stars
- Reposted by Claira TurveyThey want you to feel hopeless and believe that nothing can improve.
- Reposted by Claira TurveyICE is sending these kids to the concentration camp in Dilley, Texas, where they're preparing to have so many children that they're opening a new school there. They're actively hiring teachers now. I reported on it last month. We have to get people out of there.
- Reposted by Claira TurveyHave a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...
- I’m told there were 500 local and out-of-town clergypeople at a training Thursday (1/22 last night) for actions during the strike today. #iceoutmn
- Reposted by Claira Turvey"In my experience, academic work that acknowledges racism, inequality, oppression & climate injustice is in no way easier than any other form of learning. It is oftentimes harder, more complex, as it is fighting against the grain, and THAT is exactly why we need to bring care to our teaching."
- This is a reflection on the uses of despair in the neoliberal university. I use a couple of stories, experiences, and arguments to consider the question: How do we deploy hope in response to racial injustice in the midst of despair? Should we continue to do so? Why? folukeafrica.com/what-is-the-...
- Reposted by Claira TurveyCounterpoint Guardian review of The Crown’s Silence. “The British crown & the navy expanded & protected the trade in enslaved African people for hundreds of years, unprecedented research into the monarchy’s historical ties to slavery has found.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
- Reposted by Claira Turvey'The European Accessibility Act (EAA) came into force on 28 June 2025, and it applies to all UK universities that serve EU disabled students, sell into EU markets, or run EU-based partnerships and enterprises.' 1/2
- Reposted by Claira TurveyAnd the reason I keep referring to Isherwood is that the instances which we are able to glimpse about what is happening in the streets of Minnesota and elsewhere is indicative of wider horrors and menaces we cannot see. It evokes what Isherwood wrote of what he saw in the streets of 1930s Berlin.
- Reposted by Claira TurveyOn Isherwood posts: Cabaret is a great film and an outstanding play, but to get a real feel about early 1930s read the Isherwood source material: the Berlin stories and diaries. Like Zone of Interest the menace and horror is what you can sense off-page/off-screen. And it was written at the time.
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- Reposted by Claira TurveyToday: tulips and rose hips bringing some needed colour into this overcast January day. #red
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- Reposted by Claira TurveyBreaking news and congratulations to the team, Sulawesi preserves evidence for the oldest art yet recorded, and strengthens claims for the early colonisation of Australia. At 68k BP this art is almost 30k years earlier than the accepted record for Europe. Bravo🏺🦣🎨 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Claira Turvey🧪🏺 WOWWWW New dates in SE Asia for rock paintings - major implications: - nature of early aesthetics, innovations - relationship to oldest known Australian settlement? - and (IMO) impacts claims that cave art in Europe >50 Ka is necessarily work of #Neanderthals www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. ‘The doctrina padres, compel widows and single women to spin and weave, accusing them of having lovers as an excuse for making them work without paying them.’
- Reposted by Claira Turvey‘Nairobi Birdman’ Rescues Helpless Birds in Kenya, Giving Them a Home He Never Had goodnewsnetwork.org/nairobi-birdman-res… #goodnews
- Reposted by Claira TurveyThe map's form: only symbols It shows: vegetation Its purpose: to show parallels
- Reposted by Claira TurveyI’m busy right now but does anyone have some good reading to hand on Land Back
- Reposted by Claira Turvey#Bloomscrolling #Wildflower #Trifolium #ColourADay #PinkMon Alsike Clover (Trifolium hybridum) which is generally in full bloom by mid June here. Showing a lovely transition from the deepest of pink to an almost white.
- Reposted by Claira TurveyThis is the post that opened my eyes & all others by Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social & she has always been right y’all. This was and still is great advice in thd times we are in and facing in the future. She knew and still knows . She has a PhD in all this shit we’re going through and
- Reposted by Claira Turvey'Across randomized trials, she preferred the bristled end but switched to the stick end when targeting softer lower-body areas....Our findings broaden the taxonomic scope of flexible tool use and invite a reassessment of livestock cognition.'
- Reposted by Claira TurveyGood morning. Another sunflower study and viscocity practice.
- Reposted by Claira TurveyThe map's form: growing It shows: monsters Its purpose: to navigate
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- ‘Where laws stop, insurance often takes the baton, and this is likely to become a big topic in the coming months. …an entire history of the deployment of AI (and other technologies before it) could be told through the lens of the insurance industry, and the constraints it put on adoption and use’
- Reposted by Claira TurveyThe map's form: body paint It shows: turmoil Its purpose: to connect
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- Reposted by Claira TurveyOn my walk in the woods I come across this ghost-leaf - veined insides yawning through the gaps that winter has torn in its surface, caught, as if half-way between this world and the next, a delicate, decayed delight.
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