Sonja Dümpelmann visits early twentieth-century proposals for ‘growing houses’ by German landscape architect Arthur Wiechula to reveal the long history behind initiatives to harness trees’ physiological processes in the creation of built structures: roadsides.net/duempelmann-01…

Does macaques’ use of hanging cables in Old Delhi point toward an urban arboreality? Maan Barua reflects on unforeseen ways of negotiating access to infrastructure among other-than-human lifeforms in the city: roadsides.net/barua-010/

Inspired by a Tallinn parking lot, Matthew Gandy ponders unexpected socio-ecological constellations in the city. What are the conceptual implications of engaging in ‘ecological loitering’, taking in the intricacies of non-human urban life? roadsides.net/gandy-010/

Columba González-Duarte analyses the reciprocal relationship between the migrating Monarch butterfly and its host plant, milkweed, to consider the possibility of multispecies mobility justice: roadsides.net/gonzalez-010/

Call for papers for Roadsides Collection no. 012 on Infrastructural Anxieties, edited by Mikel Venhovens and Mona Chettri: roadsides.net/call-for-paper…

The publication of Roadsides Collection no. 011 on Concrete is just a few days away! Take a look at the upcoming articles: roadsides.net/collection-no-…

Max D. Woodworth and Cecilia L. Chu argue that concrete must be approached in ways that capture its dynamic material properties and its impacts on human and nonhuman relations over time: roadsides.net/woodworth-chu-…

Matthew Gandy considers four ways of understanding how concrete intersects with urban political ecology to reveal new cultural and scientific developments: roadsides.net/gandy-011/

Susanne Trumpf focuses on the below-ground microbial world to argue that cementitious interfaces should be understood as part of the living environment: roadsides.net/trumpf-011/

Aaron Bradshaw examines how encounters between trees and hardened surfaces reveal other-than-human agents in urban spaces: roadsides.net/bradshaw-011/

Yu-Han Huang reflects on how the soil-cement brick’s failure as a building material innovation in Taiwan was inseparable from its materiality and from normative assumptions of what is modern: roadsides.net/huang-011/

Natalia Echeverri documents the remaking of the lush valleys of Hong Kong’s Lantau Island through formal and informal concrete constructions that alter local landscapes: roadsides.net/echeverri-011/

Jean Michaud and Sarah Turner examine the transition to concrete-based infrastructure in rural uplands of northern Vietnam and the resulting adaptations of cultural practices: roadsides.net/michaud-turner…

Lukas Ley demonstrates how the use of “ecological concrete” taps the liveliness of shore ecologies in ways that contribute to recreating nearshore habitats and alternative ecological futures: roadsides.net/ley-011/

Pierre Wenzel discusses how social media has become a key site for the flow and exchange of concrete construction knowhow and the formation of urban aesthetic norms: roadsides.net/wenzel-011/

Daniel Williford considers how concrete in Morocco has followed a trajectory from instrument of colonial rule to a central node within postcolonial imaginaries of autonomy: roadsides.net/williford-011/

Focusing on the Abidjan and Lagos corridor, Armelle Choplin unpacks the major role of cement and concrete in shaping contemporary African landscapes and societies: roadsides.net/choplin-011/

Eli Elinoff’s photo-essay reveals the proximities and relations generated by concrete across rural, extractive, industrial and urban spaces: roadsides.net/elinoff-011/

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

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…