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An Anthropology of Infrastructure at China’s Inner Asian Borders

[roadsides @road_sides]

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

[Matthäus Rest @matthaeusrest]

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

[AnthropoS @anthropo_s]

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

[roadsides @road_sides]

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

[roadsides @road_sides]

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

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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

[roadsides @road_sides]

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

[roadsides @road_sides]

Can residential gardens help manage stormwater? Andrea Aragone, Catalina Codruta Dobre and Giuseppe Faldi investigate ‘wet experiments’ in Brussels backyards: https://t.co/htkp7zKDip

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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

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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

[AnthropoS @anthropo_s]

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

[roadsides @road_sides]

Call for papers for Roadsides Collection no. 011 on Concrete, edited by Max D. Woodworth and Cecilia Chu:
https://t.co/jg9hbW4ygT

[AnthropoS @anthropo_s]

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

[AnthropoS @anthropo_s]

CfP for the new @road_sides issue!

[roadsides @road_sides]

Call for papers for Roadsides Collection no. 010 on Urban Bioinfrastructures, edited by Raúl Acosta @raulaco and Lukas Ley @Granularlukas
https://t.co/jg9hbW4ygT

[roadworkasia @roadworkasia]

The Social Anthropology Unit at the University of Fribourg is celebrating 80 years of anthropology! Our team is happy to be a part of the unit!

[AnthropoS @anthropo_s]

Today we are celebrating 80 years of anthropology at the @unifr - the first #Anthropology chair in Swiss Anthropology!

[Till Mostowlansky @mostowlansky]

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

[Beril Ocaklı @BerilOcakli]

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

[roadworkasia @roadworkasia]

@BerilOcakli @AlessandroRippa @Novastan_Eng Dear Beril, thank you for your time and interest in our work. 🤗