The Call for Papers for our exciting next issue FOODWAYS on food and infrastructure is out! The issue is edited by Dolly Kikon and Matthäus Rest. We look forward to receiving your abstracts! https://t.co/jg9hbW4ygT
Together with @DollyKikon I'm editing the fall issue of @road_sides tentatively titled "Foodways." You can find the call for papers here:
https://t.co/lSwoQeeya7
The Unit of Social Anthropology is advertising a Postdoc position (50-55%) in the project „Maintaining Relations: Community-owned Hydropower Infrastructure Through Time“. If you are interested in working on scenarios for more fair energy futures - apply!
https://t.co/ARaAetGcgB
Does macaques’ use of hanging cables in Old Delhi point toward an urban arboreality? Maan Barua reflects on unforeseen ways of negotiating access to infrastructure among other-than-human lifeforms in the city: https://t.co/a7BRcT8iMv
Inspired by a Tallinn parking lot, Matthew Gandy ponders unexpected socio-ecological constellations in the city. What are the conceptual implications of engaging in ‘ecological loitering’, taking in the intricacies of non-human urban life? https://t.co/M0ZZZz4gu4
Columba González-Duarte analyses the reciprocal relationship between the migrating Monarch butterfly and its host plant, milkweed, to consider the possibility of multispecies mobility justice: https://t.co/hvSSgPaVIi
Raúl Acosta and Lukas Ley advance the concept of urban bioinfrastructures in relation to human and non-human city dwellers. They position the ambivalent politics of these bioinfrastructures vis-à-vis ‘nature-based’ solutions: https://t.co/sXjEyUx7To
Can residential gardens help manage stormwater? Andrea Aragone, Catalina Codruta Dobre and Giuseppe Faldi investigate ‘wet experiments’ in Brussels backyards: https://t.co/htkp7zKDip
Chakad Ojani explores the significance of fog-capture devices around Lima, Peru, from their physical structures to their fostering of locals’ appreciation of trees as an original form of bioinfrastructure: https://t.co/dDpXHJK0aq
Sarah Vaughn’s photo essay captures Guyanese experiments with soft groynes, a type of coastal defense. This engagement with eroding shorelines shows how people are reinventing and experimenting with ecologies despite climatic havoc: https://t.co/4lbqGCDUzc
A new PhD position in the research project ‚Maintaining Relations: Community-owned Hydropower Infrastructure Through Time’ at the Social Anthropology Unit in Fribourg. Please do circulate widely! https://t.co/MLxXCUQaJz
Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi co-authored a factsheet The New Global Connect: Mega-Infrastructure Projects and their Local Impacts published by the Swiss Academy of Sciences https://t.co/KuScFQtZPS
Call for papers for Roadsides Collection no. 010 on Urban Bioinfrastructures, edited by Raúl Acosta @raulaco and Lukas Ley @Granularlukas
https://t.co/jg9hbW4ygT
Podcast on our new book “Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia” (U of Hawaii Press), first time dubbed in Italian, thanks for the shoutout @AlessandroRippa
https://t.co/jaBrZvVm4l
China in Central Asia: Fact-checking and myth-busting.
Read our full conversation with @AlessandroRippa & Agnieska Joniak-Lüthi (@roadworkasia) for @Novastan_Eng. Thank you, Ale, Agnieszka & Zarina. It was a pleasure
https://t.co/4Kys7lqbwZ