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After the summer break the Anthro-team reunited for a cozy day of learning about the sense of smell and testing own skills in creating scents. It was fuuuun! Matthäus Rest Lena Kaufmann Lettres Unifr Uni Fribourg roadworkasia

Call for papers for Roadsides Collection no. 013 on Toxic Infrastructures, edited by Nikolaos Olma and Janine Hauer: roadsides.net/call-for-paper…

Join this month’s SCA Fridays event on Friday, September 20th at 11am EDT: Achieving Global Open Access with Stephen Pinfield, moderated by Marcel LaFlamme & Tim Elfenbein and discussed by Eleana Kim, Anand Pandian, & Alberto Corsín Jiménez. Register: zoom.us/meeting/regist…

How has #China's model of #infrastructure-based development adapted to local contexts & how is it changing? Delighted to welcome Miriam Driessen, Elisa Oreglia & Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi Uni Fribourg for our #ChinaWeek2024 panel chaired by Thomas White. Register tinyurl.com/msjwjb75

The Unit of Social Anthropology is advertising a Postdoc position (50-55%) in the project „Maintaining Relations: Community-owned Hydropower Infrastructure Through Time“. If you are interested in working on scenarios for more fair energy futures - apply! unifr.ch/anthropos/de/n…

It was a great pleasure to participate in the panel discussion on the Chinese development model today at Lau China Institute, King’s College London. Many thanks to Thomas White, Shefali Shah and other organizers who made it such a wonderful and inspiring event!

Yuan Zhang considers how the Toilet Revolution addresses affective and cosmological tensions in the everyday and spiritual lives of rural Chinese people. roadsides.net/zhang-012/

Mona Chettri and Mikel Venhovens argue that the cyclical relationality between infrastructure and anxiety opens up new ways to think about lived experiences. roadsides.net/chettri-venhov…

Sindhunata Hargyono illustrates how long-term, albeit passive, infrastructural violence is heightened by the arrival of a base transceiver station in Kayan Hulu, Indonesia. roadsides.net/hargyono-012/

Afra Foli reveals how flood anxiety in Accra, Ghana, leads to the formation of new collaborations, which in turn help shape urban politics. roadsides.net/foli-012/

Jiraporn Laocharoenwong illustrates how anxiety can mobilise a community through infrastructure in Mae La refugee camp in Thailand. roadsides.net/laocharoenwong…

Kirsten Nielsen uncovers the emergence of new anxieties in northern Uganda, and highlights the symbolic value of electrical power infrastructure even when it fails. roadsides.net/nielsen-012/

Aditya Kakati looks at ‘airy infrastructures’ at Northeastern Frontier in 1945 and 1962, two pivotal moments in the history of Indian state-building. roadsides.net/kakati-012/

Annika Pohl Harrisson and Michael Eilenbergexamine how a Danish–German wild boar fence is the conduit for tensions past, present and future. roadsides.net/harrisson-eile…

Robert Deakin explores anxious belonging in the urban landscape through the perspective of Jimmy, a resident of a housing estate in east London. roadsides.net/deakin-012/

Infrastructure, the boon and bane of our times. Read about the cyclical relationship between infrastructure and anxiety in the lastest issue of roadsides, edited by me and Mikel J.H. Venhovens

Together with Dolly Kikon I'm editing the fall issue of roadsides tentatively titled "Foodways." You can find the call for papers here: roadsides.net/call-for-paper…

The Call for Papers for our exciting next issue FOODWAYS on food and infrastructure is out! The issue is edited by Dolly Kikon and Matthäus Rest. We look forward to receiving your abstracts! roadsides.net/call-for-paper…

We're excited to announce the release of our new edited collection "Toxic Infrastructures" by Nikolaos Olma and Janine Hauer. Explore ten insightful articles on the intersection of toxicity and infrastructure. We'll start posting them today!

Enjoy perusing the new edited collection on ‘Toxic Infrastructures’ that has just been published in the OA journal Roadsides! roadsides.net/ejournal/