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Nicholas C. Kawa

Environmental Anthropologist

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Category: waste studies

10 Ways that Human Waste Isn’t Waste at All

A listicle on the many uses of poop in the latest issue of Anthropology News.

Anthropology News, biosolids, discard studies, essay, humanure, night soil, waste

Thinking with Soils

My latest research on the use of biosolids in the US is now available in the edited volume Thinking with Soils.

anthropology, ethnography, metabolic rift, soils, US agriculture

Ecologies of (Human) Waste

Check out my presentation for the 2020 Society for Cultural Anthropology virtual conference (#Distribute2020).

discard studies, distribute2020, infrastructure, Privy2, shit, tactical urbanism, waste management

Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon

The edited volume Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon includes over 60 entries and it’s free! Check out my entry, simply titled “Shit.”

anthropocene, anthropology, discard studies, Punctum Books, shit, waste

New Zine on the History of Sanitation

Our zine “Infrastructural Digest” is finally done. Download a free digital copy.

art, creative nonfiction, infrastructure, nightsoil, public anthropology, sanitation, zines

Night Soil and the Metabolic Rift

Curious about the use of human waste as an agricultural fertilizer? Read our article in the open access journal Ethnobiology Letters.

Ethnobiology Letters, humanure, metabolic rift, night soil

Privy2

Learn about how sanitation waste and plastic discards are transformed into agricultural and architectural resources on OSU’s main campus.

demonstration garden, discard studies, Privy2, urban agriculture, waste

A Story of Us Podcast

For the past several years, the graduate students of the Ohio State Department of Anthropology have produced A Story of … More

A Story of Us, agriculture, Amazonian Dark Earth, biosolids, podcast, urban Amazonia, waste

What Happens When We Flush? Public Talk at Whetstone Library

If you want to learn about all the fascinating things central Ohio does with its so-called “human waste,” come to … More

anthropology, biosolids, Ohio, public lecture, shit studies, Whetstone Library

Interview in Edible Columbus

In the latest of issue of Edible Columbus, you can find an interview with me discussing the importance of microbial life for … More

Amazonia, biosolids, Edible Columbus, interview, soil health

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