This piece is part of the Speaking Volumes collection within the Theorizing the Contemporary series in Cultural Anthropology.
This article analyzes the establishment of temporal horizons around wildfires and wildfire prevention.Read more
A review of the anthropological literature at the intersection of citizenship and place.Read more
A review of the anthropological literature on precarity and placemaking.Read more
A review of the political science literature on space and place.Read more
A review of the economic literature on place and space.Read more
A review of the anthropological literature at the intersection of biodiversity and place.Read more
A review of the anthropological literature at the intersection on food and place.Read more
This is a review of the anthropological literature of encounters of transnational capitalism, space and place, and human-nonhuman relations.Read more
In terms of characterizing ethnographic places, and really space/place more generally, McKittrick’s work encourages us to think about the overlapping “physical, metaphorical, theoretical, and experiential contours” of a space.Read more
By touching the ghost, Avery Gordon claims that we might get something different than we might have expected, leading us to see things we did not see before, our relations to that which seemed invisible changing. Such is what she strives to achieve through an alternative rendering of sociology...Read more
This article focuses on "place" as a promising concept for future studies of late modernity in the United States.Read more
In October 2008, the journal Environmental History released a special issue titled "toxic bodies/toxic environments: an interdisciplinary forum" to bring together environmental historians, science studies scholars, and historians of science to reflect on "cultural models and historical...Read more
The article analyses "how toxic tours may function rhetorically as cultural performances to help build communities of resistance through acts of politicizing memory" -- and might be helpful to think about the 'guided tours' through our gallery space, online and offline.Read more
This book discusses the history, purpose and potential of experimental ethnography.Read more
Tia-Simone Garder, a Black feminist scholar and a cross-disciplinary, mixed media artist asks, "what do histories and cartographies that trace and locate Black mobility along a river that moves between the Gulf of Mexico and Minnesota reveal about the lives and ...Read more