Associate Professor of Anthropology, Colgate University
Scholar-in-Residence, Institute for Advance Study, University of Minnesota
Research Interests
- Energy
- Ethnography of science and technology
- Gender
- geology
- Materials and Materiality
- Neoliberalism
- paleontology
- political economy
- posthumanism
- Science as play
- The Americas
Contact
Publications
Books
Kids on YouTube : Technical Identities and Digital Literacies
Patricia G Lange | Left Coast Press (2014) | ISBN: 9780804778404
The mall is so old school—these days kids are hanging out on YouTube, and depending on whom you ask, they're either forging the digital frontier or frittering away their childhoods in anti-intellectual solipsism. Kids on YouTube cuts through the hype, going behind the scenes to understand kids' everyday engagement with new media. Debunking the stereotype of the self-taught computer whiz, new media scholar and filmmaker Patricia G. Lange describes the collaborative social networks kids use to negotiate identity and develop digital literacy on the 'Tube. Her long-term ethnographic studies also cover peer-based and family-driven video-making dynamics, girl geeks, civic engagement, and representational ethics. This book makes key contributions to new media studies, communication, science and technology studies, digital anthropology, and informal education.
Images that Move
Patricia Spyer, Mary Margaret Steedly | SAR Press (2013) | ISBN: 9781938645013
Images That Move is concerned with how images take place in wider worlds: how they move around, via processes of transmission and uptake, but, equally importantly, how they move their audiences affectively. Images play a significant part in projects of "poetic world-making" and political transformation. They participate in the production of commensuration or of incommensurability, enact moments of prophecy or exposure, and attract or repel spectators' attention. Images move, then, but not just as they wish, and any examination of images in motion must also recognise the blockages and breakdowns that prevent their movement as well as the enframings or "stickinesses" that trap them in particular places, prevent them from reaching others, or hedge their arrival in specific ways. The contributors explore topics ranging from high art to mass media, religious iconography to pornography, and popular photography to political cartoons in a range of contexts and media including photography in early twentieth century China, art and literature in contemporary South Africa, upscale real estate development in India, occult media images and the aesthetic of appearance in urban Indonesia, and film censorship in Nigeria. All of these instances of the visual continuum require different ways of highlighting and addressing the problematics of images in motion. Images That Move traces some of the tangled paths of images' travels and returns, unfolding their effects and aftereffects and scanning the diverse and variable publics-fixed or ephemeral, situated or dispersed-that these moving images call into being. Contributors: Ernst van Alphen, Christiane Brosius, Steven C. Caton, Finbarr Barry Flood, Brian Larkin, Oliver Moore, Rosalind C. Morris, Christopher Pinney, Patricia Spyer, Mary Margaret Steedly.
080477840X
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Articles
Engendering the Company:Corporate Personhood and the “Face” of an Oil Company in Metropolitan Buenos Aires
Elana Shever (2010) | PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 33(1): 26-46 | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1555-2934.2010.01091.x
Neoliberal associations: Property, company, and family in the Argentine oil fields
ELANA SHEVER (2008) | American Ethnologist 35(4): 701-716 | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00106.x