2-0025 ANTHROPOLOGY OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 12:00-13:45

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Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Students

Organizers: Ashley D Carse (University of North Carolina) and Dana E Powell (Appalachian State University)

Chairs: Dana E Powell (Appalachian State University) and Ashley D Carse (University of North Carolina)

Discussants: Hannah C Appel (Columbia University)

12:00

Bureaucratic Pacts As Moral Infrastructures: Water and Movement In Northeast Brazil

Andrea Ballestero (Arizona State University)

12:15

Concrete and Mud: Roads and the Politics of Mobility Around the Panama Canal

Ashley D Carse (University of North Carolina)

12:30

Of Nature, the Supernatural, and War: Emergent Infrastructures of Disaster Management In Sri Lanka

Vivian Y Choi (University of California, Davis)

12:45

Unexpected Developments: Road Infrastructure As a Catalyst for Peruvian Environmentalism

Sonja K Pieck (Bates College)

13:00

Technologies of Sovereignty: Contested Energy Infrastructure On the Navajo Nation

Dana E Powell (Appalachian State University)

13:15

Water Infrastructure and Folkloric Geographies: Scarcity and (over) Abundance In Northern Mexico

Lucero Radonic (University of Arizona)

13:30

Discussant

Hannah C Appel (Columbia University)

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