![]() Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. To Be ‘Emplaced’: Fuzhounese Migration and the Politics of Destination. Senders, eds., Money: Ethnographic Encounters. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.Įquation Fixations: On the Whole and the Sum of Dollars in Foreign Exchange. ![]() In Sabine Berking and Magdalena Zolkos, eds., Between Life and Death Governing Populations in the Era of Human Rights. Anthropological Theory, 10 (1-2): 132-142.ĭeparting China: Identification Papers and the Pursuit of Burial Rights in Fuzhou. ![]() The Attraction of Numbers: Accounting for Ritual Expenditures in Fuzhou, China. The Noise of Data: Comments on Ewald's "After Risk." Carceral Notebooks 7 (2011): 109-118.Ĭosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China. When Infrastructures Attack: The Workings of Disrepair in China. International Journal of Politics, Culture & Society 29: 403-421. Cambridge University Press.īoxed In: Human Cargo and the Technics of Comfort. In Filippo Osella and Daromir Rudnyckyj, eds., Religion and the Morality of Markets. Risk, Fate, Fortune: The Lives and Times of Customs Inspectors in Southern China. Risky Work, Fateful Play: Chinese Customs Inspectors and the Compossibility of Fortune. Allegra Lab (co-authored with Kenzell Huggins, Harini Kumar, Jack Mullee and Heangjin Park).Ĭruel Optimism and the Settler-Colonial Roots of White Grievance. Un/boxing Fulfillment: A Field Guide to Logistical Worlds. Sidewalk Terror and the Logistical Hauntings of the Flâneur. ![]() Roadsides 007 (Spring 2022): 1-7 (co-authored with Tina Harris). Schlock Value and the Politics of Fiasco (in preparation for journal submission). The Hinge of Time: Infrastructure and Chronopolitics at China's Global Edge (book manuscript in progress).įulfillment: A Field Guide to the Logistical City, ethnographic 360 project in production (co-directed with Daria Tsoupikova). (2) on the politics and poetics of logistics, especially in relation to e-commerce driven innovations in moving goods, people and information according to increasing aspirations for on-demand, seamless "fulfillment." This includes launching the collaborative research project, " Logistics in the Making of Mobile Worlds," the cross-platform online discussion of #Logistics in the Time of Covid, and the Spring 2022 issue of Roadsides on #Logistics (1) on Chinese soundscapes, especially in relation to the changing qualities and valuations of the Chinese concept of renao (热闹, a bustling scene, social liveliness or, literally, “heat and noise”) Based on three years of fieldwork largely among Chinese customs inspectors and transnational migrant couriers traversing the Taiwan Strait, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific (via ports and border zones spanning the PRC and the U.S.), this work examines how certain figures of "infrastructure" animate the global politics of time in three distinct keys - as matters of constancy, rhythm and non/event.Ī graduate of NYU’s Program in Culture and Media, she is also currently completing video and other multimedia projects related to her fieldwork as well as developing two new ethnographic foci: Her current writing project is entitled The Hinge of Time: Infrastructure and Chronopolitics at China's Global Edge. It was also shortlisted for the 2011 Gregory Bateson Prize from the Society of Cultural Anthropology. Her book, Cosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China (Duke University Press, 2010), received the 2011 Sharon Stephens Prize from the American Ethnological Society and the 2012 Clifford Geertz Prize from the Society for the Anthropology of Religion. Chu is a sociocultural anthropologist with interests in mobility and migration, economy and value, ritual life, material culture, media and technology, and state regulatory regimes. Associate Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College Associated faculty, Divinity School
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