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  1. My latest study (just out!) is “Legacies of #Legibility: Genealogical Story-Telling as an Echo of #State Power”, published in the Journal of #FamilyHistory. The paper uses ideas from #Foucault (#governmentality), #Scott, & #Tilly to assess the risks of genealogy #research that relies upon state #records (e.g., #census, #BMD, etc.) which were created for the purposes of state-formation. hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:

  2. So grateful that the Kingfisher Institute for the Liberal Arts and Professions invited me to join their panel last night on Population Health. I got to talk about Benedict Anderson and how the concept of population inherently asks questions about #governmentality and #biopolitics. Then we used #Dickens’s Bleak House for an example. #MedHums #MedicalHumanities

  3. It is my great honour to formally join the University of Sheffield Urban Institute as an associate member. I will be part of the Urban Automation and Robotics theme group, working with colleagues on research streams of #urbanautomation #urbanrobotics #smartcities #smarturbanism #platformurbanism #urbantechnology #governmentality Find our space, people and research from sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institut

  4. Hi! A short #introduction: research on parallel tracks of medical #anthropology plus interdisciplinary study of #disasters.

    #embodiment #ritual #gender #midwifery #tsunami #DVI #governmentality #biopolitics #necropolitics #demography #volcanoes #risk

    Recent focus during the #covid19 #pandemic via #art and #netnography on the #Amabie phenomenon in #Japan and globally. Academia needs to take #creativity seriously.

    Previous roots in classic music and fine arts.

  5. All the discussions of China's Zero Covid policy really proving Foucault's conception of the "perfect city" and #governmentality during an outbreak of #disease to be true. The relationship between the city, disease, and governmentality is central to so much of our experience in the recent past