Elizabeth Ferry is professor of anthropology at Brandeis University. She is the author of Not Ours Alone (Columbia University Press, 2005); Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the US-Mexican Border (Indiana University Press, 2013); and, with Stephen Ferry, La Batea (Red Hook Publications, 2017).
Elizabeth Ferry
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Fallout as a Process: Ryo Morimoto on Fukushima
“That’s what my book is really trying to get at: What are the things that we have missed as a result of confronting our own fear of the invisible?”
John Plotz on Earthsea, Anarchism, and Ursula K. Le Guin
“Rather than thinking of creative arts and sciences as ‘two cultures,’ we should realize that they’re running on parallel tracks.”
Cooking, Monasteries, Arithmetic: Lorraine Daston on the History of Rules
“There is a deadly earnestness with which children take up whatever rules have been established for a particular context.”
Open Letters, Open Secrets: Laurence Ralph on Police Torture in Chicago
“People rise through the ranks and are allowed to hide torture in plain sight because they become complicit.”[none-for-homepage]
B-Sides: “The Diary of ‘Helena Morley’”
On November 26, 1893, a 13-year-old Anglo-Brazilian girl opens her diary to record a rescue mission. Helena’s father, a diamond miner in Diamantina, in …
Waste, Value, and Environmental Racism in the Southwest
On August 5, 2015, a team contracted by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to investigate a leak at the Gold King mine in Silverton, Colorado, accidentally breached the mine, sending three million gallons of toxic wastewater in a foul yellow surge down the Animas River. The two nearest downstream communities are Silverton, a small […]
