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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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Anthropology December 22, 2020

Nairobi in the Making

Landscapes of Time and Urban Belonging

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 ordinary residents inhabit this temporal condition …
African Studies July 21, 2020

Feminist Parenting

Perspectives from Africa and Beyond

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? In Feminist Parenting: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond, an …
Israel Studies March 9, 2020

Waste Siege

The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine

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 takes waste infrastructures as a starting point for exploring …
Architecture March 3, 2020

Age of Concrete

Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique

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 Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique (Ohio …
American Studies January 17, 2020

Military Waste

The Unexpected Consequences of Permanent War Readiness

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 military waste …
South Asian Studies September 25, 2019

Living with Oil and Coal

Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India

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 Kikon offers a rich account of life in the midst …
American Studies September 16, 2019

Uberland

How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work

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 resonance and on its ability to …
Film August 15, 2019

Postcolonial Automobility

Car Culture in West Africa

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, and dependent on vast the vast infrastructures of …
Latin American Studies August 12, 2019

Non-Humans in Amerindian South America

Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals, and Songs

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 ethnographies to bear on anthropological debates on ontology and the anthropocene …
African American Studies August 2, 2019

The Anti-Black City

Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil

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 the fore. Jaime Alves’s book the The Anti-Black …