Critical histories of science and medicine, science studies, postcolonial endeavours. New book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity). Writing mostly on disease ecologies and planetary health now. Living on Wangal country.
Warwick Anderson
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RIP David Rosner
i took a class with him and Harold Markowitz in the mid-90s. It was tremendous fun—I was a total shit-stirrer and David always engaged with humor and appreciation.
this is a huge loss to all social historians of medicine
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#histsci
Edgar Morin, sociologue du temps présent et agitateur d’idées, est mort à l’âge de 104 ans
Aujourd'hui dans Paroles d'histoire je reçois Emmanuelle Saada pour son ample synthèse sur l'histoire des colonisations publiée chez Gallimard. Bonne écoute !
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An ethnographic study of wildfire management in Australia, Timothy Neale’s "How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent" critiques the colonial logics of control deployed and explores alternative forms of environmental stewardship. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/tFWv5RK
Warwick Anderson
Il n’aura cessé de penser les événements de l’histoire dans un corps-à-corps haletant avec le siècle. Attaché à relier les savoirs afin d’élaborer sa « pensée complexe », cet intellectuel populaire et profondément humaniste militait pour une insurrection des consciences. Il s’est éteint vendredi 29 mai à Paris, indique son épouse au Monde.
A new book (or booklet?) from brilliant and prolific Sophie Chao! Plantations. 'Approaching plantations as fertile sites for theorizing inter- and intrahuman relations, the book unearths ... unexpected yet urgent possibilities for cultivating counter-plantation futures and multispecies justice'
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Le Monde
Beautiful Serpentine Gorge reflection, today, Tjoritja (West Macdonnell ranges), outside Mparntwe (Alice Springs), Arrente country (central Australia). Photo by @hanspols.bsky.social
André Loez & podcast Paroles d’histoire
David Rutledge interviewed me about 'Spectacles of Waste' for ABC RN's Philosophers' Zone - now available as podcast. Also broadcast on RN this weekend. Trying to recall the book was like prepping for an exam. Hope I passed!
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Nathaniel Comfort
And me at Standley Chasm. Again courtesy of @hanspols.bsky.social
Warwick Anderson
Why are we so repelled yet fascinated by bodily waste? Today we're talking purity, pollution, colonial sanitation regimes, medicine and public health, and how they've been shaped by our deeply ambival...
“David Rosner, my doctoral advisor, died this past weekend. The world is a little different now.
Often, it seems like there is no one in the world of public health who didn’t know David (and adore him)…” A lovely remembrance of David by Megan Wolff. @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
