In County Donegal, Ireland, an estimated 30,000 buildings are crumbling due to governmental and commercial mishandling of building materials such as concrete. A lack of urgency in governmental…
In June 2025, I gave the keynote “Community-led Digital Sovereignty: Insights and Lessons from an Indigenous Initiative in Remote Canada” at the International Digital Security Forum (IDSF) in…
On Stratified Topologies of Urban Passing 1 April 2024, London. Written while shifting from one transient stay to another, sixteen […] The post Everywhere is a Border, Everywhere…
Budka, P. (2026). [Review of the book Sustainable energy transitions in Canada, by M. S. Winfield, S. D. Hill & J. R. Gaede]. Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien, 46(76), 198-199.…
Introduction This essay is an inquiry into projects, the model of agency that projects presuppose, and the limits of that […] The post Projects and Anti-Projects appeared first…
Budka, P., Schweitzer, P., & Povoroznyuk, O. (Eds.). (2026). Ethnographies of infrastructure [Special issue]. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 55(1). Cover of JCE, 55(1). Summary Ph…
On the national highway that cuts across the lower slopes of the Western Ghats, the surface itself is rarely the […] The post When the Ground Refuses to…
Budka, P. (2025). Infrastructural disruption, entanglement and change in Northern Manitoba, Canada. Anthropologica, 67(1). https://doi.org/10.18357/anthropologica67120252709 My openly accessible a…
Budka, P., & Amatulli, G. (2025). Introduction: Narratives and temporalities of infrastructure in Canada. Anthropologica, 67(1). https://doi.org/10.18357/anthropologica67120252794 The openly a…
Amatulli, G., & Budka, P. (Eds.). (2025). Narratives and temporalities of infrastructure: The Canadian experience [Special issue]. Anthropologica, 67(1). Cover of Anthropologica, 67(1). (Photo…
Andreas Malm. 2024. The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth. London. New York: Verso Urgency is the word that […] The post The Destruction of Palestine is…
Data centers are in the news. You have probably read or heard about them. It’s as if with the snap of a finger the news cycle has changed,…
A moose mating ritual “Sorry, what did you say?” asked the company CEO during a meeting about new regulatory requirements. […] The post Seeing Treaty Rights: The cumulative…
A little after 1 am on Feb. 15, 2021 during a frigid storm, the Texas electric grid came close to […] The post Deregulated Grids, Natural Gas and…
At 09:30 a.m. BST on 19 July 2024, IT systems around the world suddenly ground to a halt. Without their computer systems, pharmacies, doctors’ surgeries, airports, train providers,…
In May 2024, following a barrage of Russian missile attacks on power stations across Ukraine, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced […] The post Pasts Cast in Concrete and…
Áine Mangaoang: The nicest prison walls in the world? The prison begins, and ends, with the wall. Ten-feet tall, smooth […] The post Walls appeared first on Allegra…
My run of posts on scholarly societies in general, and my scholarly societies in particular, has, I know, been heavy on facing unhappy developments and low, so far,…
My run of posts on scholarly societies in general, and my scholarly societies in particular, has, I know, been heavy on facing unhappy developments and low, so far,…
This is an essay (or “essay”) mainly authored by Copilot, the LLM-based AI tool provisioned to me by Indiana University. Spelling and typographic errors made by JBJ have…
This is an essay (or “essay”) mainly authored by Copilot, the LLM-based AI tool provisioned to me by Indiana University. Spelling and typographic errors made by JBJ have…
Budka, P. (2024). Notes on the transformation of a railway in Northern Manitoba, Canada. Paper at Vienna Anthropology Days 2024, Vienna, Austria: University of Vienna, 23-25 September.Co-chairing of…
Marine Weather Warnings, via NOAA, https://marinenavigation.noaa.gov/weather-warnings.html Unburying the lede: This post is about efforts to sever the financial, and therefore mutual aid, links pr…
Marine Weather Warnings, via NOAA, https://marinenavigation.noaa.gov/weather-warnings.html Unburying the lede: This post is about efforts to sever the financial, and therefore mutual aid, links pr…