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Nicholas C. Kawa

Environmental Anthropologist

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Placing the Anthropos in the Anthropocene

The Anthropocene is the theme for this year’s special issue of the Annals of the American Association of Geographers. You can find a pre-print copy of my contribution (co-authored with Jeff Hoelle) here.

anthropocene, capitalocene, plantationocene, pluriverse

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

#BLM

Read the latest statement from the Association of Black Anthropologists.

Black Lives Matter

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

Plants that Keep the Bad Vibes Away

New research article is out in a special issue on plant-human communication in the journal Ethnos.

bad vibes, human-plan relations, phyto-communicability, plant communication and sensing, research article, urban Amazonia

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

Little Free Zine Library in the Collaboratorium @ Ohio State

Not enough anthropologically-inspired zines in your life? We’ve got you covered.

anthropology, collaboratorium, Ohio State, zines

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

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