About Jacob Doherty

Jacob Doherty is a lecturer in the anthropology of development at the University of Edinburgh.

Jacob Doherty is a lecturer in the anthropology of development at the University of Edinburgh.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Jacob:

Constance Smith, "Nairobi in the Making: Landscapes of Time and Urban Belonging" (James Currey, 2019)

December 22, 2020

Nairobi in the Making

Constance Smith
Hosted by Jacob Doherty

In a colonial-era housing estate in Nairobi, urban life unfolds in the shadow of a billboard promising a bright hypermodern global future. How do ordi…

R. S. Dieng and A. O'Reilly, "Feminist Parenting: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond" (Demeter Press, 2020)

July 21, 2020

Feminist Parenting

R. S. Dieng and A. O'Reilly
Hosted by Jacob Doherty

How have the everyday practices of parenting been shaped by patriarchy and coloniality? What are the transformative potentials of feminist parenting? …

Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, "Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2019)

March 9, 2020

Waste Siege

Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins
Hosted by Jacob Doherty

Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019) is an ethnography of Palestinian life under occupation that tak…

David Morton, "Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique" (Ohio UP, 2019)

March 3, 2020

Age of Concrete

David Morton
Hosted by Jacob Doherty

Who built Africa’s cities? Going beyond the colonial archive and the planner’s gaze, David Morton’s Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspirati…

Josh Reno, "Military Waste: The Unexpected Consequences of Permanent War Readiness" (U California Press, 2019)

January 17, 2020

Military Waste

Josh Reno
Hosted by Jacob Doherty

Seven decades of military spending during the cold war and war on terror have created a vast excess of military hardware – what happens to all of this…

Dolly Kikon, "Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India" (U Washington Press, 2019)

September 25, 2019

Living with Oil and Coal

Dolly Kikon
Hosted by Jacob Doherty

In Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India (University of Washington Press, 2019), anthropologist Dolly Kiko…

Alex Rosenblat, "Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work" (California UP, 2018)

September 16, 2019

Uberland

Alex Rosenblat
Hosted by Jacob Doherty

What does uber tell us about work, labor management, and mobility in the post-financial crisis world? Uber’s success has been tied to its cultural res…

Lindsey Green-Simms, "Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)

August 15, 2019

Postcolonial Automobility

Lindsey Green-Simms
Hosted by Jacob Doherty

Cars promise freedom, autonomy, and above all, movement but leave whole cities stuck in traffic, breathing polluted air, exposed of deadly crashes, an…

Juan Javier Rivera Andía, "Non-Humans in Amerindian South America" (Berghahn, 2018)

August 12, 2019

Non-Humans in Amerindian South America

Juan Javier Rivera Andía
Hosted by Jacob Doherty

In Non-Humans in Amerindian South America: Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals, and Songs (Berghahn, 2018), eleven researchers bring new …

Jaime Alves, "The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil (U Minnesota Press, 2018)

August 2, 2019

The Anti-Black City

Jaime Alves
Hosted by Jacob Doherty

The 2018 election of far-right president Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil has brought the issues of police violence, racial discrimination, and misogyny to th…