@hannahcknox.bsky.social
Anthropologist. Works at the University of Manchester. Studies people's lives with and alongside infrastructure, climate, energy, technology and data.
New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast! Hannah Knox joins us to talk about the challenges climate change has posed to the concepts and methods of governing a city. Case in point: Manchester! tinyurl.com/3yax7euh @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social
15.09.2025 01:02 — 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Screen shot of the post title, "Balance," in orange, and below the series image, a residential building that seems like its kept up on one vertical half and falling apart on the other.
Recent attempts to shift attention from the seemingly coherent object of infrastructure to attend to a more unruly ecology reveal infrastructure’s entanglement with broader systematic imbalances—of climate, economy & culture.
— @hannahcknox.bsky.social & Itay Noy in our new series "Unbuilding"
Yes please - do send the accepted draft! Sounds great.
18.08.2025 10:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lunch and a walk along the Tyne with @chikaw.bsky.social , Hannah Knox and Adam Reed a lovely way to mark the end of our JRAI editorship. Thanks to all who submitted, reviewed and helped to make it all happen!
06.12.2024 18:07 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Oh no! Such sad news.
27.11.2024 21:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Absolutely fantastic and engaging visualisation of @cmmonwealth.bsky.social work here
two-towns.common-wealth.org
The series has essays by wonderful contributors who were SO great to work and think with. Thanks to all of them, as well as the Cultural Anthropology team. @dominicboyer.bsky.social @beatricecointe.bsky.social @mythrijega.bsky.social @markomonteiro.bsky.social @hannahcknox.bsky.social and many more
18.11.2024 20:10 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1Just came across Larry Lohmann's brilliant re-thinking of energy as a colonial concept, and its implications for 'energy transitions' www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/sites/thecor...
14.11.2024 12:40 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
We have only just published at Cultural Anthropology a new collection on "Substitution" in our Theorizing the Contemporary series. Check it out!
culanth.org/fieldsights/...
As they finalize the book for their Patchwork Ethnography project, our faculty Dr. Gökçe Günel and her collaborator Dr. Chika Watanabe are looking for early-career scholars who have benefited from the idea of patchwork ethnography. Click this link for submissions: www.patchworkethnography.com/events
08.11.2024 16:59 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Really pleased to be able to announce a major new research Centre funded by the ESRC. To be led by Sherilyn MacGregor, it will focus on initiatives to accelerate socially-just low carbon living. See www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/e....
07.11.2024 15:34 — 👍 48 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 0
