This review focuses on how culture can complicate and impede attempts at promoting more
efficient, more sustainable, and often more affordable forms of mobility as well as energy use …

Recent years have witnessed the rapid proliferation and growth of local, national, and
transnational environmental nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), national …

A unique multidisciplinary perspective on the risk literature is used to establish a fresh and
provocative argument regarding the epistemological understanding and definition of risk …

Although controversial, science studies has emerged in the 1990s as a significant culture
area within anthropology. Various histories inform the cultural analysis of science, both …

This essay asks what the study of socialism and its legacies still offers anthropology of the
contemporary world and argues that studying late‐socialist aesthetics and practices can …

This path-breaking volume explores cultures of energy, the underlying but under-
appreciated dimensions of both crisis and innovation in resource use around the globe …

This is the first full length account of the life and ideas of Mary Douglas, the British social
anthropologist whose publications span the second half of the twentieth century. Richard …

Gary Lee Downey investigates the body/machine interface in his remarkable ethnography of
computer engineers. Drawing on interviews, observations and personal interaction with …

Does a lack of enthusiasm for nuclear energy among the US public relate to connections
with nuclear weapons? The United States is projected to decline as the global leader in …

▪ Abstract Apocalypticism and millennialism are the dark and light sides of a historical
sensibility transfixed by the possibility of imminent catastrophe, cosmic redemption, spiritual …