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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

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

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

Shit

I wrote a short essay titled “shit” that was just published on Cultural Anthropology’s website as part of their series Lexicon for an … More

anthropocene, Cultural Anthropology, essay, lexicon, shit studies, waste

Waste, Residuals, and Ruins: A Political Ecology of Excess

This weekend I’ll be presenting at the Dimensions of Political Ecology (DOPE) Conference in Lexington, KY. Shreyas Sreenath (Emory U.) … More

DOPE2016, political ecology, waste

The Molina Collection: A Museum of Human Care

Last night, I had the chance to see Robin Nagle give a talk at Ohio Wesleyan University. The title of … More

collection, curation, discard studies, garbage, New York, sanitation, waste

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