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Department websiteKatie Kadue
Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez
Leslie Alexander
Amiel Bize
Assistant Professor
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters:
2022 "On Fallen Wood." Etnofoor 34(2): 33-48.
2022 with Sophie Schramm. "Planning by Exception: The Regulation of Nairobi’s Margins." Planning Theory online first.
2020 “The Right to the Remainder: Gleaning and Fuel Economies along Kenya’s Northern Corridor.” Cultural Anthropology 35(3).
2019 with Basil Ibrahim. “Waiting Together: The Motorcycle Taxi Stand as Nairobi Infrastructure.” Africa Today 65(2): 72-91.
2017 “Jam-Space and Jam-Time: Traffic in Nairobi.” The Making of the African Road (K. Beck, G. Klaeger, M. Stasik, eds.), Leiden: Brill, 58-85.
2017 “Rhythm, Disruption and the Experience of African Roads,” review article, Mobility in History Vol. 8: 28-34.
Public Scholarship:
2019 with Basil Ibrahim. “Les « shimo », lieux de toutes les attentes des taxis-motos de Nairobi” [“Shimo: Where Motorcycle Taxis Wait.”], Le Monde Afrique website, May 7.
2019 “On Ethnographic Desire: A Response to Phantom Africa,” Syndicate website, April 1.
2019 “Gleaning,” Part of series on Temporary Possession. Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology website, March 29.
2018 with Soo-Young Kim. “Beyond Precarity.” Member Voices, Fieldsights, Cultural Anthropology website, March 21.
2016 with Wendell Marsh, Elliot Ross, Safia Aidid, Natasha Shivji, and Basil Ibrahim. “Reflections on #CadaanStudies.” CSAAME Borderlines, February 13.
2009-2011 Regular contributor to “Findings,” column in Anthropology Now Magazine.
Departments and programs
Keywords
Economic Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, Value, Capitalism, Margins, Risk and Insurance
Peter Caswell
Humanities Scholars Program Postdoctoral Associate
Departments and programs
Stephanie López
Mellon Graduate Fellow
Shirley Le Penne
Graduate Student
Education
- BA at Tel Aviv University
- MA at Tel Aviv University and Sciences Po Paris
Departments and programs
Keywords
The Politics of Hope and Despair; Social Movements; Confinement and Incarceration; Continental Political Thought; Existentialism; Phenomenology
Ani Chen
Humanities Scholars Program Postdoctoral Associate
Education
- MA, Political Science University of Toronto
- BA, Political Science and German Studies, Bryn Mawr College
Departments and programs
Links
Keywords
history of political thought, feminist theory, contentious politics