BOOK REVIEW: Topologies of Air
Book review of Topologies of Air published in Third Text. Topologies of Air is a collection of essays about and excerpts from Shona Illingworth’s artistic practice.
Waste and its masquerades
A short research article published open access in Anthropology Today. Through comparing waste management in two public parks in Kochi, India, this article suggests that rather than being marginal, waste and its management is vital to the production, experiences, and understandings of urban natures.
Burning Wet Waste
A research article published in The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, and winner of the 2022 Nadel Prize for Ethnographic Writing. This article is celebrated for being “firmly ethnographic while drawing on historical and comparative studies to analyse and foreground insights that bear relevance to how capitalist modes of domination and extraction continue to attract highly problematic technological solutions to the persistent problem of plastic”.
Floating Ground
A research article about Kochi’s immense wetness, and how enveloped in wetness changed how urban development through infrastructures can happen in this tropical estuarine city. Published in open access island studies journal Shima.
Slow infrastructures in times of crisis
A co-authored with my PhD supervisor Dr. Georgina Drew and published in Postcolonial Studies, this journal article situates composting and rainwater harvesting as ‘slow infrastructures’ that hold promise of unworking the speed and convenience of colonial, extractive, fast infrastructures in Kochi, India.
On the social nature of toilet paper
An essay written for Platypus, the blog for the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology & Computing, which aims to shed some light on the hoarding of toilet paper during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Anonymity, Silence and Insurrection
A two-part reflection on some of the politics and artwork I experienced at the 2018 edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, written for Adelaide-based art magazine, fine print.
Natura Urbana
A reflection on the Indian premiere screening of Matthew Gandy’s acclaimed documentary ‘Natura Urbana: The Brachen of Berlin’ written for multimodal ethnographic journal Entanglements.
Madison Bycrofts Mollusc Worlds
An essay written for Artlink, on artist Madison Bycroft’s experimental and multi-species artistic practices.
Enchanted Bee-ings
A research essay built out of my honours thesis which explores urban beekeeping as an enchanting relationship between humans and apis mellifera (European honeybee) that begins to break down urban-rural, wild-domestic, and nature-culture binaries.
Decolonising Sewage Infrastructure
An essay on the colonial heritage of Darjeeling’s water and waste problems written for The Conversation, highlighting how sometimes it’s best to keep those two things separate.