New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast! Hannah Knox joins us to talk about the challenges climate change has posed to the concepts and methods of governing a city. Case in point: Manchester! tinyurl.com/3yax7euh @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social

Recent attempts to shift attention from the seemingly coherent object of infrastructure to attend to a more unruly ecology reveal infrastructure’s entanglement with broader systematic imbalances—of climate, economy & culture. — @hannahcknox.bsky.social & Itay Noy in our new series "Unbuilding"

Lunch and a walk along the Tyne with @chikaw.bsky.social , Hannah Knox and Adam Reed a lovely way to mark the end of our JRAI editorship. Thanks to all who submitted, reviewed and helped to make it all happen!

Absolutely fantastic and engaging visualisation of @cmmonwealth.bsky.social work here two-towns.common-wealth.org

The series has essays by wonderful contributors who were SO great to work and think with. Thanks to all of them, as well as the Cultural Anthropology team. @dominicboyer.bsky.social @beatricecointe.bsky.social @mythrijega.bsky.social @markomonteiro.bsky.social @hannahcknox.bsky.social and many more

Just came across Larry Lohmann's brilliant re-thinking of energy as a colonial concept, and its implications for 'energy transitions' www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/sites/thecor...

We have only just published at Cultural Anthropology a new collection on "Substitution" in our Theorizing the Contemporary series. Check it out! culanth.org/fieldsights/...

As they finalize the book for their Patchwork Ethnography project, our faculty Dr. Gökçe Günel and her collaborator Dr. Chika Watanabe are looking for early-career scholars who have benefited from the idea of patchwork ethnography. Click this link for submissions: www.patchworkethnography.com/events

Really pleased to be able to announce a major new research Centre funded by the ESRC. To be led by Sherilyn MacGregor, it will focus on initiatives to accelerate socially-just low carbon living. See www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/e....