Mike Degani
@mikedegani
Anthropologist at @Cambridge_Uni and @GirtonCollege, studying energy, infrastructure and beyond.
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https://cambridge.academia.edu/MikeDegani 10-05-2010 23:37:59
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I’ll be talking about class struggle, parasitical metaphors, and cinematic representations of the class enemy in Albanian socialist realist cinema this Friday at a fantastic one-day workshop organized by Mike Degani & Grace H. Zhou. Come along if you are in or around Cambridge!
Enviro anthro folks: we’re so excited to host this chat on plantation methodologies on Thursday 4/25, the latest in our Eco Anthropology author convo series Ecodesign Collective (@[email protected]), please join us over at the Ecological Design Collective at 12pm ET
Very happy to be offering comments on Claire Mercer's amazing new work and checking out all this cutting edge research in East African studies.
With their blurring of theft and work, vishoka are symptomatic of the ambiguous state of the power sector in Tanzania and the broader political- economic shifts that have shaped it. - The City Electric by Mike Degani (Duke UP, 2022) Intro uploaded here. academia.edu/86912836/The_C…
A thoughtful essay by Mike Degani on the rhetoric/reality of sustainable building that also explains why the ecomod “green” supercity—or even the idea of urban density as somehow more environmentally viable, inputs be damned—is yet another comforting metropolitan illusion:
