December 02, 2024

00:41:34

Foraging episode 1.02 Kwame Edwin Otu on the queerness of waste

Foraging episode 1.02 Kwame Edwin Otu on the queerness of waste
Introducing Foraging: a podcast in environmental humanities
Foraging episode 1.02 Kwame Edwin Otu on the queerness of waste

Dec 02 2024 | 00:41:34

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Show Notes

The second guest of Foraging is anthropologist Kwame Edwin Otu, associate Professor in the African Studies Program of Georgetown University. His doctoral research on the Sasso, a community of self-identified effeminate men living in the Jamestown district of Accra, served as the groundwork for his first monograph, Amphibious Subjects, published by the University of California Press in 2022. In this episode, Kwame delved on his ongoing research project, an ethnography of the pickers toiling in one of the world’s largest e-waste dumps. He also reflected on how his previous research on queerness informed and shaped his trajectory in environmental anthropology. We further discussed the notion of waste, and how to approach non-human entities in anthropology.

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