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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.
NBN Episodes hosted by Jacob:
December 22, 2020
Nairobi in the Making
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…
July 21, 2020
Feminist Parenting
How have the everyday practices of parenting been shaped by patriarchy and coloniality? What are the transformative potentials of feminist parenting? …
March 9, 2020
Waste Siege
Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019) is an ethnography of Palestinian life under occupation that tak…
March 3, 2020
Age of Concrete
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…
January 17, 2020
Military Waste
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…
September 25, 2019
Living with Oil and Coal
In Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India (University of Washington Press, 2019), anthropologist Dolly Kiko…
September 16, 2019
Uberland
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…
August 15, 2019
Postcolonial Automobility
Cars promise freedom, autonomy, and above all, movement but leave whole cities stuck in traffic, breathing polluted air, exposed of deadly crashes, an…
August 12, 2019
Non-Humans in Amerindian South America
In Non-Humans in Amerindian South America: Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals, and Songs (Berghahn, 2018), eleven researchers bring new …
August 2, 2019
The Anti-Black City
The 2018 election of far-right president Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil has brought the issues of police violence, racial discrimination, and misogyny to th…