every paper, presentation, and project i completed in grad school
I recently completed my dissertation: “Mapping crises, communities, and capitalism on OpenStreetMap”. It was a long and bumpy road, and while I’m processing a v2 version (after sending an initial copy out to everyone I spoke to)… I didn’t want to lose the forest for the trees, and forget about the whole series of processes and projects that led to this point.
In any case, I thought I would release every paper, project, and presentation I’ve ever done in graduate school. Because these projects likely won’t see the light of day (except for when I forcibly try to drop them in everyday conversation), I thought it would give me a moment to reflect on the sheer amount of work that’s been done over the past few years in my little corner of the world.
Papers
- Studying People & Their Politics: A Brief Investigation
- Power and Influence at the Universal Periodic Review: A Network Analysis of UPR Testimonies on Business and Human Rights
- Refining Coltan, Erasing Violence: Three Approaches to Coltan Mining in the Congo
- Representing the Naxalites: the Written Walks to Two Women
- Towards a Critical Anthropology of Business and Human Rights
- Towards an Anthropology of Corporate Ethics
- Human(itarian)-Centered Designs in the Silicon Savannah
- Unpacking the Strange Fruits of Archival Labour: A semester-long dive into the archives of the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
- Social Movements During Social Distancing: An Ethnographic Vignette of Extinction Rebellion during COVID-19
- On the Mystical Foundations of Legal Authority: On the Indigenous Right to Property and Environment in Argentina
- Between ‘do good’ and ‘don’t be evil’: on the ethical landscapes of Google’s stratospheric internet balloons
- The State and/of the Map
- Crowdsourced crisis-mapping & the infrastructure of open-source information
- Open-source Humanitarianism: A study of online communities, crowdsourcing & corporations (thesis proposal)
Presentations
- Experience and Ethnography in the Himalayas
- The Graduate Press: Orientation Month 2020
- Pierre Bourdieu: Theories of Practice
- The Social Life of Supply Chains
- Anthropology of Nature and the Ontological Turn
- Global Borderlands: Theories and Methods
- The social life of (our) supply chains*
- Critical approaches to design and data*
- HOT Summit*
- Open Data Day*
- csv,CONF*
- RightsCon*
- Wikimedia Unlock Demo Day*
I also had to give a few presentations about some of the topics, and a few others for for classes. I don’t count those, though.
*Given during my time in graduate school, but not necessarily related to my time there.
Projects
- Leyendos de Litio
- De(mind) the Gap: Findings Report
- Networks of Power at the Universal Periodic Review
- Open Knowledge Foundation Fellowship
- Supply Chains and Us (now The Re:Source Project)