Writing

My recent writing explores historical, political, and geographical aspects of security, mass violence, and displacement.

A few writing samples are:

—“Security Aesthetics of and beyond the Biopolitical.” The introduction to Futureproof: Security Aesthetics and the Management of Life (Duke University Press, 2020). Co-authored with Asher Ghertner and Daniel Goldstein. Read here.

—“Impassable Visions: The Cambodia to Come, the Detritus in its Wake.” A chapter in A Companion to the Anthropology of Death (Wiley, 2018), edited by Antonius Robben. Co-authored with Alexander Hinton. Read here.

—“Humans-as-waste.” An essay in the Discard Studies Compendium. Read here.