Roadsides 15 :: Cryosphere is out
This collection conceptualizes the changing cryosphere as infrastructure. It foregrounds snow and ice as more-than-physical assemblages utilized and co-created by humans and non-human worlds.
#infrastructures #sts #anthropology
www.roadsides.net/collections/...
CFP for "Disaster and Vulnerability in Asia’s Highest Borderlands: Understanding Geological, Cosmological, Human and Multispecies Agency"
Deadline 1 June, workshop March 2027, Bhutan
www.iias.asia/events/disas...
Call for Papers. Doing research on how the railway has been experienced and imagined? Join our conference on "Imagining the Railway from 1900 to the Present: People, Infrastructres, Texts"! (Åbo Akademi University, Finland, 1-3 April 2027)
#railway #transportation #train #mobility #publictransport
CFP for workshop at Tallinn University on Unsettling Borderlands, for scholars who work on multispecies/border issues borderlab.eu/events/works...
Reposting, deadline for abstracts is on 15 March
I'm excited to announce a cfa for Roadsides' fall issue on 'Markets as Infrastructures.' Together with Hasan H. Karrar we edit this issue and we look forward to receiving abstracts from far and wide, incl. #economicanthropology #politicaleconomy #decolonialstudies www.roadsides.net/collections/...
"Are you a visual ethnographer exploring questions in medical anthropology through film? Do you want to join one of the largest anthropology departments in Europe with a vibrant visual and medical anthropology community?"
We're hiring...
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology is hiring a new editorial team
www.linkedin.com/posts/felix-...
Benjamin *Linder*
Image of someone holding a carry on bag, boarding pass, and passport.
New Mobility Humanities special issue on "Aspirations of Flight", edited by Weiqiang Lin and Benjamin Londer. Some excellent articles here journal-mobilityhumanities.com
And one postdoc position in Amsterdam on "Activist Infrastructures in Asian Diaspora" werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Three PhD positions in Amsterdam for the project,
"AlterTech - Activist Infrastructures in Asia" werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
If you're interested in where I've been, where I'm heading, and my thoughts about anthropology these days, here's a recent video interview for the Amsterdam Anthropologies Series www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfZH...
Thank you! 🙏
The new @roadsides.bsky.social collection is out, on Foodways! An excellent issue, edited by the fab @dollykikon.bsky.social and @mattrest.bsky.social
www.roadsides.net/collections/...
Journal cover image depicting men using axes to cut blocks of natural ice on the side of a mountain
CFP for the new @roadsides.bsky.social issue, CRYOSPHERE. roadsides.net/call-for-pap... "Snow and ice have long served as vital resources for human and non-human inhabitants of this planet. Today the world is experiencing immense changes to the cryosphere."
Tourism + Aeromobilities abstract deadline extended to 30 Sept
CFP for a workshop on Arboreal Nationalism: when Trees become Instruments of Politics, 1-2 Dec in Amsterdam. Abstracts due 1 Sept.
www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...
We've got a call for papers out for a special issue on Aeromobilities in Tourism Geographies! Abstract deadline 1 Sept. www.tgjournal.com/aeromobiliti...
👩🎓 Tomorrow at 11:00, PhD candidate Shivani Kaul (Anthropology) defends the thesis 'A Tendrel Logic. Growing Humans Otherwise During the Golden 1000 Days in Bhutan'. Supervised by @tinahonjo.bsky.social & @eyatesd.bsky.social.
🍀 Good luck, Shivani!
🎥 Watch live here: www.uva.nl/en/content/e...
Furious with the emails I just received informing us that AUP - and the Asian Borderlands book series that I've co-edited for years with Willem van Schendel - has been acquired by Taylor & Francis. None of us knew that this was in the works. But maybe after AUP privatisation in 2019, no surprise.
ABRN Asian Borderlands conference abstract deadline extended to 20 May www.iias.asia/programmes/a...
Roadsides 013: Toxic Infrastructures is done! Congratulations to all contributors and guest editors Janine Hauer and Nikolaos Olma. We will publish all articles over the next few days: roadsides.net/collection-n...
Postdoc position for someone with expertise in cultural anthropology, critical urban studies, and/or STS as part of The Cultures of the Cryosphere project
www.kulturwissenschaften.de/wp-content/u...
📣 excited to announce a 2-year post-doc at the University of Amsterdam @rpa-cs-uva.bsky.social on government responses to displacement project w/ me, @stephrschwartz.bsky.social & Adam Lichtenheld.
- Closing date 30 April, starts fall 2025.
- More info & to apply:
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Food folks! Here is a new Roadsides call for papers on food and infrastructure, edited by the wonderful duo of Matthäus Rest and Dolly Kikon. Deadline for abstracts is 13 April, issue out in Nov 2025
roadsides.net/call-for-pap...
Join us this year in #Amsterdam to explore:
🚲 Creative approaches to promoting #cycling
🧐 Using cycling to rethink #assumptions about mobility
🔬 Critical approaches to transport technology and #innovation
Call 4 Abstracts: pretalx.com/cycling-rese... (b4 March 24)
More at cyclingresearchboard.com
roadsides.net is now on Bluesky :) bsky.app/profile/road...
