The Sugar Library
This post is part of a series on the SEEKCommons project. Read the Introduction to the series to learn more. Sugar, particularly that from sugarcane, takes many different shapes and…
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The Porosity of Promise: Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and the New Science of Technofixation
Amidst the proliferation of material technologies developed to solve the problems of planetary climate change and carbon emissions, the technoscientific community increasingly champions a new molecula…
Bodies as Proxies, or The Stratigraphic Evidence of Our Appetites, at Metabolic Scales from the Human to the Planetary, on the Occasion of the Anthropocene’s Ongoing Debate About Itself
The atmosphere of anxiety concerning the Anthropocene amplifies when considering how its eerie and unwieldy forces affect our bodies. Across posthumanist, science studies, and new materialist discours…
Witnessing the Porous World
Pores compose materials around us such as gypsum, clay, lead, concrete, whose strength and durability are paradoxically analyzed in their capacity to resist porosity, or contain. Anthropogenic engagem…
Political Stakes of Cancer Series – Episode 11: Selling Everything for Cancer Treatment: Access, Inequality and Patient Treatment Pathways in Kenya
Podcast with Ruth Prince, Professor of Medial Anthropology at the Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, in conversation with Thandeka Cochrane, Postdoctoral Research Associate, King…
Political Stakes of Cancer Series – Episode 10: “Almost everyone has personal stories of liver cancer”: An account of the historical and contemporary world of liver cancer in Senegal
Noemi Tousignant, Associate Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London, in conversation with Shagufta Bhangu, Lecturer in the Department of Global Health…
Political Stakes of Cancer Series – Episode 9: Global Biotechnologies, Local Innovations: Cancer Immunotherapy in Cuba and Switzerland
Nils Graber, postdoctoral fellow, History of Science Department at Humboldt University, Berlin, in conversation with Fabien Provost, social anthropologist, French Research Centre for Scientific Resea…
Political Stakes of Cancer Series – Episode 8: From Controversy to Compensation: Cancer as an Occupational Disease
Héloïse Pillayre, postdoctoral researcher, Sciences Po, Lyon, in conversation with Fabien Provost, social anthropologist, French Research Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). In this episode, so…
Political Stakes of Cancer Series – Episode 7: Africanizing Oncology: Tales from the Uganda Cancer Institute
Podcast with Marissa Mika, writer and editor, in conversation with Thandeka Cochrane, Postdoctoral Research Associate, King’s College, London. In this episode we travel to Uganda to hear the…
Political Stakes of Cancer Series – Episode 6: Notes on Stigma: Reflections from India’s largest Cancer Hospital during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Podcast with Caro Caduff, Professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London, in conversation with Shagufta Bhangu, Lecturer in the Department of Global…
Political Stakes of Cancer Series – Episode 5: The Role of Inequality in Cancer Care in Brazil
Podcast with Luiz Alves Araújo Neto, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of History of Science and Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Fiocruz, Brazil, in discussion with Shagufta Bhangu, Lecturer…
Political Stakes of Cancer Series – Episode 4: Fighting Cancer with Qigong: An Ethnography of Patient Activism in China
Podcast with Chen Ying, Lecturer, National University of Singapore, in discussion with Fabien Provost, social anthropologist, French Research Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). In her ethnogra…
Political Stakes of Cancer Series – Episode 3: Cancer and the Kali Yuga: Ethnographic Perspectives from South India
Podcast with Cecilia Van Hollen, Professor at Georgetown University, in discussion with Fabien Provost, social anthropologist, French Research Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). This next epis…
Political Stakes of Cancer Podcast Series – Episode 2: We have to go so far – just for radiotherapy: therapeutic mobility, marginalisation and precarity for West African women with breast cancer in Mali and France
Podcast with Clémence Schantz, sociologist and midwife, Research Fellow at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) – Ceped UMR 196, in discussion with Thandeka Cochrane, Postdoctoral…
Political Stakes of Cancer Podcast Series – Episode 1: Pain without Painkillers: the politics of morphine in northern India
Podcast with Nickolas Surawy Stepney, Research Associate, King’s College London, in discussion with Thandeka Cochrane, Postdoctoral Research Associate, King’s College, London. This episode t…
Political Stakes of Cancer Podcast Series – Introduction
With recent emphasis on “cancer epidemics” in Asia and Africa (Banerjee 2020; Travis 2007; Lingwood et al. 2008) it has become increasingly clear that cancer is not only…
The work of plants
Though plants are indispensable for human survival, their contributions to human existence and history are often underappreciated. To underline some of the contributions of plants to wider environmen…
Metabolism and capacity: history and labour in post-apartheid South Africa
I start with the question, why was it necessary, from 2008, for Mondi South Africa to spend R50 million (USD 8 million) a year on a nutrition intervention…
Miscommunicating metabolism: hunger, method and the practice of public health
Over the past five years I have been conducting research on everyday eating and the emergence of Non-Communicable Diseases in the West African city of Dakar, Senegal. Working…
‘How pesticides enter the body’: Porosity and growth in Western Kenya
Skin, nose, mouth In a remote church building in the Southwest of Kenya, Arthur Ouko was training farmers on ‘responsible use of pesticides.’ He was instilling the importance…
“When the city eats the forest”
Kinshasa, its traffic and street vendors, receded as we drove past the international airport on the national road following the Congo River. “It’s been recently re-asphalted”, said the…
Introduction: Metabolic thinking and the predicaments of growth in Africa
Metabolic thinking deals in bounded organisms, regulated systems, and the calculated (self)-optimisation of responsible, profitable, and healthful nutritive and energetic transactions. But critical s…
The toxic imperial metabolism of Senegalese peanuts
The identification of aflatoxin in the 1960s troubled plans for Senegalese peanuts. Blamed for the acute poisoning of English poultry fed with Brazilian peanut meal, this fungal metabolite…
Technologies of Equal Participation: Formats, Designs, Practices. Introduction.
This browser does not support HTML5 audio Listen to an audio recording of this piece read by Svetlana Borodina Photo by Gareth David on Unsplash Only tod…