In this paper I argue that cities in the global South constitute a distinctive 'type'of human
settlement. I begin by critiquing Brenner and Schmid's concept of planetary urbanization …

Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene explores life in the age of climate
change through a series of infrastructural puzzles—sites at which it has become impossible …

In this introductory article, we call for a new anthropology of bureaucracy focused on'the
public good'. We aim to recapture this concept from its classic setting within the discipline of …

Europe was shocked by the news: a boat full of migrants sinks in the Mediterranean Sea,
carrying fifty-seven people to their deaths. The episode occurred when the Italian Navy …

This introduction provides an initial approach to the conceptual framework of infrastructural
harm. It draws upon existing scholarship to discuss infrastructures as relational …

The introduction to this special issue starts with a brief thematisation of the key theoretical
interventions in the anthropology of waste in order to situate our own contribution. We follow …

This volume brings together new anthropological research on the recent crisis in Greece
and provides valuable ethnographic explorations of a period of radical social change. With …

An infrastructural gap (IG) emerged after the outbreak of the crisis in 2008 and it refers to the
difficulty of the state and the private sector in sustaining the level of infrastructural networks …

Light–whether natural or artificial–plays multiple roles in the home: both as a material
enabler of everyday life and as a device for exercising a variety of social relations. The post …

Greece is in trouble. Its public finances, its 'labour market', its democratic institutions, its
social state, its major political parties, and, most important, its people–the elderly pensioners …