Category: Publications
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Des-plegar
How does an ethnography unfold? What happens when we refuse the linearity of the academic paper and let our materials bend, crease, or overlap? In my new contribution to Cultural Anthropology’s Fieldsights series, I explore the gesture of folding and unfolding as both a conceptual and material operation of ethnographic practice. Written within my project Tarde and the reflections I…
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Forthcoming Chapter: Toxic Afterlives
I am writing this theoretical chapter for the edited volume Uneven Toxic Worlds: Anthropological Engagements with Toxicity and Environmental Justice (edited by Camelia Dewan, Raffael Ippolito, and Peter C. Little). The chapter, titled “Toxic Afterlives: Specimenography and the Uneven Residues of Industrial Farming,” proposes specimenography as a conceptual and methodological framework for anthropology to engage with the slow persistence of contamination. It is…