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A platinum Open Access journal designated to be a forum devoted to exploring the social, cultural and political life of infrastructure
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Joined March 2019
Inditian Latifa demonstrates how stories of lost marsh rice in Indonesia reveal how crops, floods, and memory expand the meaning of hydraulic infrastructure. Read it here: https://t.co/n9ZCbK0nIE
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In their contribution to our latest issue, Vanessa Lamb and @zalifung show how food preparation by Karen women for anti-dam gatherings is a form of solidarity infrastructure in the Salween River Basin at the Thai–Myanmar border: https://t.co/jZET0PKK6f
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Joanna Radin and Mark Stern consider the affective and material ways that community cookbooks once helped weave kin-relations and what has taken their place amidst yearning for collective cathecting today. Read it in our latest issue "Foodways:" https://t.co/Jvv6JFhVrb
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Tuomas Tammisto examines plantation infrastructures designed to produce cheap food and fuel, and how they intersect with locally established food infrastructures in Papua New Guinea. In our latest issue on Foodways. Read his photo essay here: https://t.co/moD00YvQtZ
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In their contribution to our new issue on Foodways, @mirzalibra10 & @KalzangMarpo examine questions of highland mobility, infrastructures, state-making and bordering connected to ‘Chhurpi’, the Himalayan cheese. Read it here: https://t.co/ktVLdykazB
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André Thiemann studies the infrastructures of value that shape the world market for raspberries, focusing on projects in Arilje, Serbia, that seek to valorize its “taste of place.” Read his piece in our latest issue on "Foodways" here: https://t.co/wHGLukX5jo
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In her contribution to "Foodways," Meghal Perera explores how vendors reject and repurpose cold-chain infrastructure in a fish market in Colombo to suit their own particular understandings of freshness: https://t.co/EWoaeZHTgm
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In her contribution to Roadsides 014 "Foodways," @fizaa_bukhari recounts how the Karakoram Highway traded local food sovereignty for dependency and how the road built to connect the people of Ishkoman instead dismantled their world. Read her essay here: https://t.co/OLxeLQohhV
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In their introduction to our new issue on "Foodways" @matthaeusrest and @DollyKikon argue for an understanding of the term ‘foodways’ to focus on the manner in which food needs infrastructure to come into, move through and be in the world. Read it here: https://t.co/Xq4VJkRqlZ
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The new issue of Roadsides on "Foodways", edited by @matthaeusrest & @DollyKikon is online! Check it out on our all-new website: https://t.co/m1yTij0Xr1
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After long conversations arguing for and against it, the editorial collective has decided to stay on this platform for now. Over the years, we have built a community with you here that we don’t want to lose. We’ll have some exciting news to share in the next days.
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The Call for Papers for the next exciting issue CRYOSPHERE is out! The issue will be edited by Sophie Elixhauser and Anna-Maria Walter. Don't miss the deadline to submit your abstract!
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In "Ammonia Synthesis: Entering a Ubiquitous Chemical Technosphere" Benjamin Steininger rethinks ammonia synthesis and follows its specific associated toxicities, putting particular emphasis on the ‘openness’ of industrial infrastructure. https://t.co/r4le0s2cGk
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In her article "Toxic Recurrences" Kaitlyn Rabach demonstrates that crumbling homes and toxic mould go unacknowledged in County Donegal, Ireland, as residents fear speaking out will devalue their property. https://t.co/yz00D0gdT2
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In "Repairing Toxic: Deferred Maintenance in Schools" Margaret Tebbe and Fred Ariel Hernandez suggest how late-industrial ethnography can make visible some of the toxic hazards in Los Angeles school buildings. https://t.co/imNQkUAsmf
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In "Silica Trails: Turned Soils, Dusty Lungs" Juliana Ramos Boldrin illustrates how silica exposure can damage health, but mitigating the harm could jeopardise Brazil’s dominance in silica export. https://t.co/5byTBTLkmT
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In "Toxic Struggles: Asbestos in Argentina’s Subway" Jorge Afarian reveals how Buenos Aires metro workers face illegal asbestos exposure and uncovers a troubling hierarchy between acceptable and unacceptable health risks. https://t.co/ZK8qdJHNPW
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Gulzat Baialieva considers how 80 tons of abandoned toxic waste in Kyrgyzstan trigger discussions on the toxic aftermath of neoliberal reforms and state neglect in her article "Seeking Environmental Justice Amid Post-Industrial Ruins." https://t.co/6stACs5CQj
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Dear followers and viewers, we'll be leaving X soon. Look for us at https://t.co/rD47hNXCWW Hope to see you there!
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