IAS Materialities and Technologies Seminar

As part of its Materialities and Technologies research focus, the Institute of Advanced Studies invites you to talk by Andrew Barry (UCL, Geography) and Hannah Knox (UCL, Anthropology) on their books:

Andrew Barry, Material Politics: Disputes along the Pipeline, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox, Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise, Cornell University Press, 2015

Through case studies of the interoceanic highway in Brazil and Peru (Knox) and the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline (Barry), their discussion will examine the importance of materials in political life and ask what large public infrastructural projects can tell us about contemporary state formation, social relations, and emerging political economies.

All welcome