Kathrin Eitel

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Urban anthropologist, feminist STS scholar, 1st gen and mother.

Fascinated by waste, pollution, floods, in combination with (mega-)technologies and environmental infrastructures in relation to climate change | focus on SEA, particularly Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, as well as Europe, esp. Turkey

| Editor of Kulturanthropologie Notizen and Postdoc @ISEK Ethnologie @uzh
More: www.kathrineitel.com
#FeministSTS #infrastructurestudies #climatechange #exnovation #discardstudies #anthropology #STS

Kathrin EitelJan 30, 2024
Call for guest editors! The open-access publication series Kulturanthropologie Notizen calls for proposals for the upcoming free issue 2026. Interested? Get in touch with me! #anthropology #STS https://ka-notizen.de
Kulturanthropologie Notizen

Kathrin EitelSep 27, 2023
Thrilled to announce that the new podcast of @NewBooksNetwork on my book "#Recycling #Infrastructures in #Cambodia" is online! A big thanks to Michele Ford for providing the opportunity to talk about it! https://tinyurl.com/yu4v2a7j #discardstudies #wastefantasies
Podcast | Kathrin Eitel, "Recycling Infrastructures in Cambodia:…

Kathrin Eitel, "Recycling Infrastructures in Cambodia: Circularity, Waste, and Urban Life in Phnom Penh" (Routledge, 2022)

New Books Network
Kathrin EitelJul 12, 2023
Article alert! Our special issue on "Ecological #Ontologies" (Berliner Blätter) has been enriched by a debate between Mario Blaser and Casper Bruun Jensen @cbj on political and practical ontologies. #anthropology #sts check out here: https://tinyurl.com/3skjsnt6
Anzeige von Politische Ontologie und Praktische Ontologie. Die Fortsetzung einer Debatte

Kathrin EitelMar 1, 2023

It's out! What a feeling! The intro is Open Access! More info on content soon.
#recycling #waste #city #phnompenh #Cambodia #infrastructure #Anthropology

https://www.routledge.com/Recycling-Infrastructures-in-Cambodia-Circularity-Waste-and-Urban-Life/Eitel/p/book/9781032154664

Recycling Infrastructures in Cambodia: Circularity, Waste, and Urban Life in Phnom Penh

This book examines the recycling infrastructure in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It considers the circular flows of waste and practices through ‘infracycles’, maintenance practices that tinker with the social and capitalist order, and postcolonial ways of doing politics that co-constitute predominant waste fantasies from which naturecultures ooze out, shaping urban life in their own way. In this context, socially marginalized waste pickers contest the capitalist system by creating tropes about free

Routledge & CRC Press
Kathrin EitelJan 25, 2023
Abby KinchyJan 25, 2023
I'm hiring a postdoc! If you know a really great new PhD interested in pollution, sensors, and participatory science, please send them my way. This is a 3-year appointment with a big focus on multi-disciplinary collaboration and community engagement. #sts #citizenscience #soil #sensors #job #environmentaljustice
Show threadKathrin EitelJan 19, 2023
The network #wasteinmotion aims to understand and explain waste and waste movements as an effect of relations and will host a series of workshops over the next 2yrs. We are: Nadine Arnold, Sven Bergmann, Aleksandra Brylska, Ayushi Dhawan, Friederike Gesing, Tobias Gumbert, Rebeca Ibáñez Martín, Yusif Idies, Baldeep Kaur, Franziska Klaas, Johanna Kramm, Madlen Kobi, Stefan Laser, Sanja Potkonjak, Sophia Rossmann, Nicolas Schlitz, Sarah Schonbauer, Danko Simić, Christine Schürkmann and myself.
Kathrin EitelJan 19, 2023
We are finally launching our DFG-funded network "Waste in Motion" in Münster and I wanted to share this exciting news with you folks! https://waste-in-motion.org #wasteinmotion
German research network on waste relations

Kathrin EitelDec 28, 2022
anthrodendumDec 19, 2022

Holding our anthropological spaces
I’m not sure when it happened, but at some point the anthropological community that used to be online shifted mostly to Twitter and other platforms. Maybe this was around 2015-2017 or so? I shifted there as well but always wondered how it would all play out.

Twitter was good in many ways, because it opened things up and gave more people a chance to speak for themselves t
https://anthrodendum.org/2022/12/18/holding-our-anthropological-spaces/
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Holding our anthropological spaces | anthro{dendum}

I’m not sure when it happened, but at some point the anthropological community that used to be online shifted mostly to Twitter and other platforms. Maybe this was around 2015-2017 or so?

anthro{dendum}
Kathrin EitelDec 22, 2022

How is #waste knowledge affected, how does it affect unintentionally and potentially toxically, and when should knowledge be open to being affected? Questions I examined in the recent EASST Review by looking at sentiments, power & sluggish science practices #feministSTS #SF #anthrotwitter

https://www.easst.net/article/in-a-speculative-mood-affective-waste-knowledge-and-sluggish-science-practices/

In a Speculative Mood: Affective Waste-Knowledge and Sluggish Science Practices

It is the speculative affirmation that things might be otherwise but will be otherwise only if we learn to cultivate the art of being affected by what we learn to listen to, and of thinking with – not about – what affects us. (Isabelle Stengers in an interview with Jensen and Thorsen, 2019: 18) It

EASST
Kathrin EitelDec 21, 2022
Trivik VermaDec 21, 2022
From coal mines to data centres: A tragic reminder that Tech doesn't exist in a vacuum. All the euros that go into #AI scholarships to make more efficient half-baked systems ultimately lead to the extraction of resources which has terrible consequences for vulnerable communities. https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2022/12/googles-water-use-is-soaring-in-the-dalles-records-show-with-two-more-data-centers-to-come.html
Google’s water use is soaring in The Dalles, records show, with two more data centers to come

The company's data centers used 355 million gallons of the small city's water last year.

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