Current Thinking - An Introduction

2015

Discusses the potentialities and relevance of greater attention to electricity and electrification across the human sciences

Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies, 2019

The Promise of Infrastructure. Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta and Hannah Appel (eds), 2018. Electrifying Anthropology: Exploring Electrical Practices and Infrastructures. Simone Abram, Brit Ross Winthereik and Thomas Yarrow (eds), 2019

Science & Technology Studies, 2019

Published in Science & Technology Studies journal, this is a review article of "Our Lives with Electric Things", an online collection of essays co-edited by Jamie Cross, Simone Abram, Mike Anusas, and Lea Schick for Fieldsights, Society for Cultural Anthropology (December 2017).

Energy Research & Social Science, 2022

The article provides an anthropological analysis of the different social worlds that make up electrical energy infrastructures. Using the lens of the anthropology of infrastructures, we reflect on the role of meteorological information artifacts in the constitution of the infrastructure of the electrical energy system in Brazil. Based on fieldwork, we show how meteorological artifacts play a performative role as boundary objects in the sociomaterial dynamics of the hydropower infrastructure. The article describes how social worlds are entangled with the circulation of weather and climate knowledge in the electrical energy infrastructures, which is increasingly important in the current context of climate change.

Annales historiques de l’électricité, 2004

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2024

Review of: Electrifying Anthropology: Exploring Electrical Practices and Infrastructures (Routledge, 2019) Ethnographies of Power: A Political Anthropology of Energy (Berghahn 2021) https://rai-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/share/QUGSGMQBMVKYG39TBHY4?target=10.1111/1467-9655.14169

Reviews in Anthropology

American Anthropologist, 2009