Experiments in Excreta to Energy: Sustainability Science and Bio-Necro Collaboration in Urban Ghana

In the quest for alternatives to energy extraversion and carbon-heavy extraction, transformation of waste to energy is growing worldwide. In Ghana’s working-class city of Ashaiman, an international NGO converts faecal waste into electricity through a massive biodigester. Fed by public toilets, the power is sold back to residents.

Prelude to a Grid: Energy, Gender and Labour on an Electric Frontier

People in the Singida region of Tanzania have long utilized diverse energy sources for subsistence. How do rural Singidans eke energy from their natural and social environment? How can ideas of the sun and of labour in Nyaturu cosmology inform understandings of energy? And how are new energy technologies reshaping Singida’s social and economic landscape?

The Voices of Berlin: Busking in a ‘Creative’ City

The city of Berlin is often advertised as one of the most prominent creative cities today. In the past two decades, its marketing agencies have constructed a carefully crafted urban image designed to attract the young, mobile and creative workers that move the contemporary economy. This paper investigates the phenomenon of abundant street performers in the German capital to find out if and how these artists perceive their role and instrumentalisation within these creative policies

DESFIGURAÇÃO

Taussig, Michael;

Resumo Este texto é uma tradução parcial da primeira parte do livro de Michael Taussig, Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labour of the Negative (1999). A tradução traz uma seção inédita ao texto, além de ajustes…

RAYMOND HENRY WILLIAMS (1921-1988)

Baute, Carla;

Resumo Na ocasião da efeméride do centenário de nascimento do crítico galês Raymond Williams, não foram poucas as comemorações de seu legado intelectual. Aqui proponho traçar um itinerário da lembrança, isto é, além d…