Infrastructure of the Archive / Archiving Infrastructure #Roadsides
Infrastructure is, in common understanding, a very material thing. We think of it as something made of iron and concrete. Even when going unnoticed in our everyday lives,…
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Marco Z. Garrido, “The Patchwork City: Class, Space and Politics in Metro Manila” (U Chicago Press, 2019)
In contemporary Manila, slums and squatter settlements are peppered throughout the city, often pushing right up against the walled enclaves of the privileged, creating the complex geopolitica… Visit…
Sanjib Baruah, “In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast” (Stanford UP, 2020)
Sanjib Baruah’s latest book In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast (Stanford University Press, 2020) completes a trilogy on India’s northeastern borderland region of which…
How Do You Do “Social”?
We invite you to share your strategies for feeling connected and balancing home and work responsibilities in these social distancing times. Image description: A photo of someone’s desk…
Explaining the Emergence of Coronavirus Rituals
People in Rome, Italy, go out on their balconies at a specific time to give one another a round of applause during the coronavirus lockdown. Alessandra Tarantino/AP Photo…
Coronavirus and Carcerality by Ian Whitmarsh
A friend of mine works as a psychotherapist in a northern California prison. Three weeks ago, he and I were talking about coronavirus in prisons as we stood watching…
Pandemics: agents of global change
It was the early 1990s, while working at the American College of Physicians in Philadelphia, I became interested in epidemiology. With all the doctors around (there were twelve…
Book Review: Breathtaking: Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change by Alison Kenner
In Breathtaking: Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change, Alison Kenner uses a multi-sited ethnography to examine the myriad infrastructures and material practices of care in the…
„The invisible threats and the unhealthy world“ – What might the Mbya (Brazil) teach us about Corona?(#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (3 Less Words) Maria Paula Prates The first day I realised I was really afraid of being infected and also of the proximity of the…
Architecture as/and Infrastructure #Roadsides
Over the past two decades, infrastructure has emerged as a central concept in a larger conversation about architecture, landscape, and urbanism. Providing citizens with reliable infrastructure systems…
Jatin Dua, “Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean” (U California Press, 2019)
Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean (University of California Press, 2019) is a pirate story of a different kind. Based on years of ethnographic…
When Crisis Brings Us Closer: Reflecting on Family, Fieldwork, and Faraway Homes in the COVID-19 Pandemic by Sophie Chao
As the COVID-19 pandemic gains momentum, various forms and scales of lockdown and self-quarantine are being imposed across the world to halt the spread of the virus. With…
Advancing Research 2020
Even though I’m not technically on the hook for tripnotes for #AR2020, I’ve enjoyed having a more relaxed approach to capturing some of the key messages coming out…
In Praise of Empathy
Ruramisai Charumbira Corona Virus graffiti – Seen in the UK on 15th March 2020 before the lockdown procedures came into place. Wikimedia Commons If you had told me…
In Praise of Empathy
Ruramisai Charumbira If you had told me that it would take a novel pathogen, to work like a charm, drilling hard into our collective heart, making us shiver…
Viralscapes. The bodies of others after COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic reveals a vital-lethal entanglement of human and nonhuman bodies at a global scale. This post first draws attention on how different viral strains may…
We urgently need to understand the medication histories of COVID-19 victims by Stefan Ecks
On March 18, 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Howard Bauchner discussed a possible link between common hypertension medications and a heightened risk of dying with a coronavirus…
Un/boxing Fulfillment: A Field Guide to Logistical Worlds
Source Painting by John William Waterhouse, 1896, (Public Domain) In the classic origin tale of “The Box” and its seductions, Pandora is driven by curiosity—a distinctly feminized will…
Science in Dark Times: a syllabus on science, technology, and medicine under illiberal political regimes by Bharat Jayram Venkat
Modi, Trump, Bolsonaro: three avatars of a moment marked by the rise of a far-right populism, what many commentators have even described as a revitalized fascism. As I…
‘Savages, Romans, and Despots’ by Robert Launay
Robert Launay. Savages, Romans, and Despots: Thinking about Others from Montaigne to Herder. 272 pp., notes, bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. $32.50 (paper), $97.50 (cloth),…
Syndemics of COVID-19 and “pre-existing conditions” by Clare Herrick
As I write, there are more than 660,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and over 30,000 deaths across almost every country in the world, with infection rates accelerating everywhere…
A home for Sofia: Family, disability and housing in times of Zika epidemics by Barbara M. Marques
For English click here. A casa de Sofia: família, deficiência e moradia nos tempos da epidemia do Zika Rumo à realização do sonho Caía uma chuva fina. Acordei…
Commemorating the Massacre in Pastasel
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE Serbian armed forces systematically attacked villages in the municipality of Rahovec, expulsing civilians, shelling and destroying homes and properties, and killing livestock. Carryi…
Why Social Distancing Feels So Strange
People stand 6 feet apart while waiting in line for a store in Denver, Colorado. Michael Ciaglo/Stringer/Getty Images Around the world, millions of people are now practicing social…