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Anthropology STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS ANTHROPOLOGY 20% DISCOUNT ON ALL TITLES 2021 TABLE of Contents Feral Atlas Digital Publishing The More-Than-Human Anthropocene Initiative ........................................ 2-3 Technopolitics ........................... 4-7 Edited by Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Stanford Studies in Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou Human Rights ................................8 Anthropology of Ethics .......9-12 As the planet erupts with human and nonhuman Political and Legal Anthropology ......................... 12-16 distress, Feral Atlas delves into the details, exposing Anthropology of Policy ..... 16-17 world-ripping entanglements between human Migration and Diaspora ......17-19 infrastructure and nonhumans. 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It illuminates the ways in which we are shaping the world Over eighty field reports and essays by scholars such as Amitav Ghosh, Elizabeth Fenn, Ivette Perfecto, Simon Lewis, and Mark Maslin present close observations of the ways that ecologies are changing and feral and gives us the processes are unfolding in the world. information we need Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology to be able to act. at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Jennifer Deger is Associate —Annie Leonard,” Professor and Research Leader in the College of Arts, Society and Executive Director, Education at James Cook University. Alder Keleman Saxena is Assistant Greenpeace USA Research Professor at the Department of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University. Feifei Zhou is Researcher at Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA). Learn more about our digital publishing initiative, generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, at sup.org/digital DIGITAL PUBLISHING INITIATIVE 3 Reimagining Money The Current Economy Waste Siege Kenya in the Digital Electricity Markets and The Life of Infrastructure Finance Revolution Techno-Economics in Palestine Sibel Kusimba Canay Özden-Schilling Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins In countries around the world, Electricity is a quirky commodity: Waste Siege depicts the environmen- digital payment is displacing cash. more often than not, it cannot be tal, infrastructural, and aesthetic In Reimagining Money, Kusimba stored, transported except through context in which Palestinians are offers a rich portrait of how this dedicated routes, or imported from obliged to forge their lives. Tracing technology changes the economic overseas. Before lighting up our their experiences of wastes over and social landscape—creating homes, it changes hands through the past decade, Stamatopoulou- networks that she argues will shape specialized electricity markets Robbins considers how multiple future financial technologies. that rely on engineering expertise authorities governing the West Kusimba presents fascinating to be traded competitively while Bank—including the Palestin- accounts of how migrants maintain respecting the physical requirements ian Authority, international aid their presence in rural areas of the electric grid. The Current organizations, and Israel—rule by through money gifts; how families Economy is an ethnography of waste siege, whether intentionally or use crowdfunding software for electricity markets in the United not. Her work challenges common emergency medical care; and how States that shows the heterogenous formulations of waste as “matter new financial groups organize and technologically inflected nature out of place,” by suggesting instead investments. Examining how the of economic expertise today. Based that waste siege be understood as notion of money as wealth-in-peo- on ethnographic fieldwork among an ecology of “matter with no place ple, long cultivated in sub-Saharan to go.” Waste siege thus not only Africa, is brought to bear on the market data analysts, electric grid describes a stateless Palestine, but digital age, Kusimba presents a new engineers, and citizen activists, this also becomes a metaphor for our theory of money with applications book provides a deep dive into the besieged planet. for financial technologies to come. convoluted economy of electricity and its reverberations throughout “Taking the reader on a journey “In this provocative, nuanced ethno- daily life. Contributing to economic through landfills and rubbish markets, graphy, Kusimba asks the question: anthropology, science and technol- encounters with bags of bread left can money be designed for the ogy studies, energy studies, and the hanging on the sides of dumpsters, ‘wealth-in-people’ that sustains and the movement of sewage across lives and livelihoods in an ever- anthropology of expertise, this book is a map to the everyday infrastruc- political barriers, Stamatopoulou- more precarious world?” Robbins brilliantly excavates the —William Maurer, tures of economy and energy into ambient politics of waste.” University of California, Irvine which we are plugged as denizens of —Ilana Feldman, Culture and ECoNomic LIfE a technological world. George Washington University 240 pages, January 2021 240 pages, July 2021 9781503614413 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale 344 pages, 2019 9781503628212 Paper $26.00 $20.80 sale 9781503610897 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale 4 TechnoPolitics Paradoxes of Care Special Treatment Trading Life Children and Global Medical Student Doctors at the All India Organ Trafficking, Illicit Networks, Aid in Egypt Institute of Medical Sciences and Exploitation Rania Kassab Sweis Anna L. Ruddock Seán Columb Paradoxes of Care examines how The All India Institute of Medical Drawing on the experiences of prominent global aid organizations Sciences (AIIMS) is iconic in the African migrants, Trading Life attempt to care for vulnerable landscape of Indian healthcare. brings together five years of field- children in Egypt through bio- Established in the early years of work charting the development of medical interventions and global independence, this enormous the organ trade from an informal healthcare programs. Focusing public teaching hospital rapidly economic activity into a structured on two main groups of child aid gained fame for high-quality treat- criminal network operating within recipients—street children and ment at a nominal cost; at present, and between Egypt, Libya, Sudan, out-of-school village girls—this an average of 10,000 patients pass Eritrea, and Europe. Ground-level in-depth ethnographic study reveals through the outpatient department analysis provides new insight into how global aid fails to “save” these each day. With its notorious medi- the operation of organ trading children according to its stated cal program acceptance rate of networks and the impact of cur- aims, but rather produces paradoxes less than 0.01%, to be trained as a rent legal and policy measures in of care for children and local aid doctor here is to be considered the response to the organ trade. Columb workers. In capturing medical best. In what way does this endur- reveals how investing financial and humanitarian encounters in real ing reputation of excellence shape administrative resources into law time, Paradoxes of Care illustrates the institution’s ethos? How does enforcement and border securitiza- how child recipients and local aid elite medical education sustain tion at the expense of social services experts grapple with global aid’s India’s social hierarchies and the has led to the convergence of illicit shortcomings and its paradoxical health inequalities entrenched smuggling and organ trading net- outcomes in Egypt. By foreground- within? In the first-ever ethnogra- works in the informal economy and ing vulnerable children’s responses phy of AIIMS, Ruddock considers the development of organized crime. to global medical aid, Sweis moves prestige as a byproduct of norms “A compelling and powerful look at past an unquestioned benevolence attached to ambition, aspiration, how law generates
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