Dagna Rams

metals, waste, global capitalism, materiality of technologies #metalmarkets #WestAfrica at @LSE; formerly @unil and @uzh_ch

[Dagna Rams @dagnna]

"The plastic industry has worked hard to promote an aura of recyclability for plastic. For example, what are widely thought of as plastic recycling symbols found on many plastic products are not recycling symbols...." from this fascinating report: https://t.co/WwmLg4Xi4n

[Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo]

🎉 Final surprise of 2024! We are thrilled to announce a brand-new entry on #Commodity and #SupplyChains written by Dagna Rams (@dagnna)! 🛠️🌍
#OpenAccess #Anthropology

🔗https://t.co/9GsjZvCLA2

Happy holidays from the OEA team, and see you in 2025 with more updates! ✨

[Dagna Rams @dagnna]

Impacts for half of the world’s mining areas are undocumented https://t.co/SboIWsaDfQ

[Nana Osei-Opare @NanaOseiOpare]

Join us on Thursday & Friday @RiceUniversity to discuss innovative conversations and solutions on energy, waste, and the environment across West Africa! You can find out more & register (for free) on our website: https://t.co/eQJihMsFHk | @RiceSocSci @theMoodyArts @RiceUNews

[Dagna Rams @dagnna]

Fascinating deep-dive into how supply chains rearrange amid sanctions: https://t.co/Rai3lEMl9c

[Dagna Rams @dagnna]

Interesting list of fastest growing enterprises on the African continent: https://t.co/krFNUmn59l

[Dagna Rams @dagnna]

'Circular Economies in an Unequal World' a volume I co-edited with Patrick O'Hare @plasticpatricko is
out in open access and print with Bloomsbury. Check it out! https://t.co/SzQ8gjU2kK

[Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos]

“Extractivism is the modality through which capitalism is lived in the periphery.”

I’m featured in the new issue of @GrantaMag in a wide ranging interview, with sharp questions from Thomas Meaney on the past, present, and possible futures of extraction. https://t.co/jqmnn1vabE

[Dagna Rams @dagnna]

Fascinating report on Air Polluters in Africa by @Greenpeaceafric https://t.co/NNk1msg85A

[Jon Silver @InvisibleMapper]

"Researching Developers and Landlords: A tenant's how-to guide"

Brilliant work by @richmg_ for @gmtenantsunion as part of our Centripetal Cities project.

Will be useful for tenant unions, housing campaigns + others in UK and further afield

https://t.co/Eh7CqzrClf

[Dagna Rams @dagnna]

@insecthotel @StephPostar @Fundi_Ntapanta @zooanthrosmia https://t.co/xLlpJdPc8f

[Dagna Rams @dagnna]

Looking forward to my panels at EASA 2024: "Doing and Undoing Regulation" with Gisa Weszkalnys @insecthotel & @StephPostar
"Technology matters: ethnographies of technological adoption beyond the Western world" with @Fundi_Ntapanta & @zooanthrosmia
See you there! Links below

[Dagna Rams @dagnna]

@insecthotel @StephPostar @Fundi_Ntapanta @zooanthrosmia https://t.co/9mBa8v8cV0

[LSE Review of Books @LSEReviewBooks]

New ✨The Infrastructural South: Techno-Environments of the Third Wave of Urbanization by Jonathan Silver @InvisibleMapper @mitpress explores #Infrastructural environments in the #GlobalSouth, looking at case studies in #SubSaharanAfrica.

#Review @dagnna https://t.co/5tsCzo1ewp

[Patrick O'Hare @plasticpatricko]

Great to see 'Circular Economies in an Unequal World' a volume I co-edited with @dagnna out open access with Bloomsbury (print editions out Jan 25th). Check it out! https://t.co/LRtiGmG0xb

[Dagna Rams @dagnna]

CALL FOR PAPERS

With Samwel Ntapanta (@fundi_Ntapanta), we are organising a panel at the EASA 2024 about Technology in non-Western contexts. With Prof Jia Hui Lee (@zooanthrosmia) as a discussant. Follow the link: https://t.co/xLlpJdPc8f

[Samwel Moses Ntapanta PhD @Fundi_Ntapanta]

Call for paper 🚨🚨🚨
Submission open!!!
@dagnna and I are co-organising a panel-Technology Matters: Ethnographies of technology adoption beyond the Western World, in discussion with Prof @zooanthrosmia @EASAinfo 2024 in Lisbon.

https://t.co/aVAnC8xmq8

[Divine Fuh @divinefuh]

There's just no words:

https://t.co/YHKx0DD7F1

[Tanzil Shafique @TanzilShafique]

In the next book talk, on Oct 31, at 4 pm, I will talk about our recently published 'Atlas of Informal Settlements '(Bloomsbury, 2023) and present few of the key cases from the 51 in the book, as well as talk about the politics of knowledge production.

Join in person or online

[Dr Kristina Pikovskaia @kpikovskaia]

I am delighted to announce the launch of 🌟AIERN - African Informal Economies Research Network 🌟 - a global community of academic and policy researchers of the informal sector in Africa. We will publish news, calls, article and book summaries, blogs, and resources