books
Late Industrialism: Making Environmental Sense (in prep). A manuscript focused on the complex infrastructural, environmental and knowledge problems that characterize Late Industrialism, a historical period roughly and heuristically beginning with the 1984 Bhopal chemical plant disaster, still regarded as the “world’s worst industrial disaster.” Drawing on over two decades of ethnographic research around industrial and environmental disasters, governance and science, the analysis draws out new forms of vulnerability emergent from tight linkage between technical, ecological, political-economic and socio-cultural systems.
Advocacy After Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders. University of Chicago Press, 2001. pdf (awarded the 2003, biannual Sharon Stephens Prize by the American Ethnological Society)
edited volumes
Major Works in Cultural Anthropology, Vol 1: Moorings, Vol 2: Modernities, Vol 3: Emergence, Vol 4: Engagements. (with Mike Fortun) Sage, 2010.
“Counter-Expertise and Collaboration” (with Todd Cherkasky). Special Issue, Science as Culture Vol. 7, No. 2. (1998)
short articles
“In the Wake of Formosa Plastics: A Report from the Reaching For Just Transition Seminar Series” (with Tim Schütz). June 6, 2022. https://www.4sonline.org/in-the-wake-of-formosa-plastics-a-report-from- the-reaching-for-just-transition-seminar-series/
“Petro-ghosts and Just Transitions” (with James Adams). Public Books. June 8, 2021. https://www.publicbooks.org/petro-ghosts-and-just-transitions/
“Teaching Environmental Teachers,” contribution to GTI Forum “The Pedagogy of Transition,” Great Transition Initiative. May 2021. https://greattransition.org/gti-forum/pedagogy-transition-fortun
“IIT Hyderabad Researcher Leads Air Pollution Governance Study on Indian Cities. Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad Press Office, with STS researchers Aalok Khandekar and Kim Fortun. 28 January, 2019.
“Tactics for QuotidianAnthropocenes: A Field Campus Report.” Anthropocene Curriculum blog sponsored by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin. https://anthropocene-curriculum.org/contribution/tactics-for-quotidian-anthropocenes
“Visualizing Toxic Subjects at the UCI Center for Ethnography” (with James Adams). University Of Toronto Press Teaching Culture blog, series on Innovations in Anthropology. April 1, 2019. http://www.utpteachingculture.com/visualizing-toxic-subjects-at-the-uci-center-for-ethnography
“Ends of Anthropology Undergraduate Education,” Attending to Undergraduate Desire: A Collection of Papers on Making Anthropology Legible to Students, University Administrators, and the Public edited by Carolyn Rouse and Richard Handler. American Anthropologist online section, “Anthropology in the Classroom.” August 29, 2018. http://www.americananthropologist.org/ends-of-undergraduate-anthropology-education/
“Anthropology and Disaster Risk Reduction.” De-Provincializing Development., American Anthropologist online section, “Public Anthropologies.” December 18, 2018. http://www.americananthropologist.org/2018/12/18/anthropology-and-disaster-risk-reduction/
“To Fieldwork, To Write.” Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology blog. September 14, 2015. https://savageminds.org/2015/09/14/to-fieldwork-to-write/
peer-reviewed essays and articles
“Knowledge Infrastructure and Research Agendas for Quotidian Anthropocenes: Critical Localism with Planetary Scope” (with James Adams, Tim Schütz, Scott Gabriel Knowles). Anthropocene Review. August 2021. https://doi.org/10.1177/20530196211031972 pdf
“Cultural Analysis in/of the Anthropocene,” Hamburg Journal of Cultural Anthropology (2021). https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hjk/article/view/1696/1533 pdf
“Moving Ethnography: Infrastructuring Doubletakes and Switchbacks in Experimental Collaborative Methods,” (with Aalok Khandekar, Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn, Lindsay Poirier, Alli Morgan, Alison Kenner, Mike Fortun, and PECE Design Team. Science & Technology Studies (2021). https://sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/article/view/89782
“Civic Community Archiving with the Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography: Double Binds and Design Challenges” (with Mike Fortun, Angela Hitomi Skye Crandall Okune, Tim Schütz, and Shan-Ya Su) in Rauterberg M. (eds) Culture and Computing. Design Thinking and Cultural Computing. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12795. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77431-8_3 https://worldpece.org/content/civic-community-archiving
“What’s So Funny About PECE, TAF and Data Sharing” (with Mike Fortun*). Collaborative Anthropology Today: A Collection of Exceptions edited by Dominic Boyer and George Marcus. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
“Toxic Soldiers, Flickering Knowledges, and Enlisted Care: Dispossession and Environmental Injustice” (with Alli Morgan*). Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 6/1 (2020). https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v6i1.32808.
“Metadata, Data Infrastructure and the Data Ideologies of Cultural Anthropology” (with Lindsay Poirier*, Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn and Mike Fortun). Anthropological Data in the Digital Age edited by Jerome Crowder, Mike Fortun, Lindsay Poirier and Rachel Vesarra. Palgrave.
“Anthropologies of the Sciences: Thinking Across Strata” (with Mike Fortun*). Exotic No More. University of Chicago Press. Exotic No More: Anthropology for the Contemporary World (2nd edition), edited by Jeremy MacClancy, pp. 241-263. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.
“Computers in/and Anthropology: The Poetics and Politics of Digitization” (with George Marcus and Mike Fortun) .Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography. London: Routledge, 2017.
“Researching Disaster From an STS Perspective” (with Scott Knowles, Louis Felipe Murillo, Paul Jobin, Max Liboiron, Pedro de la Torre, Vivian Choi, and Miwao Matsumoto), Handbook of Science and Technology Studies edited by Ulrike Felt, Rayvon Fouché, Clark A. Miller, andLaurel Smith-Doerr. MIT Press, 2017. pdf
“Push Back: Critical Data Designers and Pollution Politics” (with Lindsay Poirier, Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn, Alli Morgan and Mike Fortun). Big Data and Society (2017) https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716668903.
“Figuring Out Theory,” Theory Can Be More Than It Used to Be: Learning Anthropology’s Method in a Time of Transition edited by Dominic Boyer, James Faubion and George Marcus. Cornell University Press, 2016.
Fukushima Out of Focus. Design 5: Designing Media Ecology. Vol 3. Summer 2015.
“Thinking Across Disaster” (with Alli Morgan). Mental Health and Social Issues Following a Nuclear Accident – The Case of Fukushima.” Edited by Jun Shigemura, Rethy Kieth Chhem, Hirooki Yabe. Springer, 2015.
“Learning Across Disaster: Rebuilding,” for Health in Disasters: A Science, Technology and Society Practicum for Medical Students and Healthcare Professionals. International Atomic Energy Agency, 2015
“From Latour to Late Industrialism,” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 4/1. p309-329. https://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/view/hau4.1.017(co-authored with Erik Bigrams, Brandon Costello-Kuehn, Tahereh Saheb, Jerome Crowder,
“Experimental Ethnography Online: The Asthma Files” (with Erik Bigrams, Brandon Costello-Kuehn, Tahereh Saheb, Jerome Crowder, Dan Price, Alison Kenner, Mike Fortun) Theorizing Production, Producing Theory. Cultural Studies (special issue edited by John Jackson) 28/3.
“Asthma, Culture, and Cultural Analysis” (co-authored with Erik Bigras, Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn, Allison Kenner, Tahereh Saheb, Jerome Crowder, Dan Price, Mike Fortun). Heterogeneity in Asthma: Translational Profiling & Phenotyping. Series: Advances In Experimental Medicine And Biology. Springer, 2013.
“Ethnography in Late Industrialism,” Cultural Anthropology 27/3 (2012):446–464.
“Biopolitics and the Informating of Environmentalism” in Lively Capital: Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets, edited by Kaushik Sunder Rajan. Duke University Press, 2012.
“Toxics Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Science,” Bodies in Space: Feminist Approaches to Nature and Materiality, Forum of Women’s and Gender Studies, Vol 31, edited by Elvira Scheich and Karen Wagels. Germany: Westfaelisches Dampfboot, 2011.