In their Introduction to Collection 15 Cryosphere, Anna-Maria Walter and Sophie Elixhauser provide a framework for a fascinating selection of texts and art. #anthropology #sociology #humangeography #sts #infrastructures

Roadsides 15 :: Cryosphere is out This collection conceptualizes the changing cryosphere as infrastructure. It foregrounds snow and ice as more-than-physical assemblages utilized and co-created by humans and non-human worlds. #infrastructures #sts #anthropology www.roadsides.net/collections/...

Collection No. 15 "Cryosphere" (Roadsides Journal)

Roadsides' Collection No. 15 "Cryosphere" edited by Sophie Elixhauser, Anna-Maria Walter published in Spring 2026. This collection conceptualizes the changing cryosphere as infrastructure that unfolds...

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Our collection Cryosphere is coming! This collection conceptualizes the changing cryosphere as infrastructure that unfolds through non-built yet relational environmental formations. It foregrounds snow and ice as more-than-physical assemblages utilised and co-created by humans and non-human worlds.

Roadsides :: Infrastructure teaching tools Do you teach about infrastructures in anthropology, sociology or humanities? Check out our new Teaching Tools. Starting with Collection 14, we include a variety of research exercises, discussion questions and activities in some articles. Examples:

I'm excited to announce a cfa for Roadsides' fall issue on 'Markets as Infrastructures.' Together with Hasan H. Karrar we edit this issue and we look forward to receiving abstracts from far and wide, incl. #economicanthropology #politicaleconomy #decolonialstudies www.roadsides.net/collections/...

Call for papers :: Markets as infrastructures We are particularly interested in contributions that connect long-term, in-depth or participatory insights on market forms and practices to theoretical approaches. shorturl.at/SboBI #markets #anthropology #economy #decoloniality #politicaleconomy

We are happy to announce that gradually all our articles will be available in html on our website, starting with our latest issue on food: www.roadsides.net/articles/8888

Foodways: An Introduction (Roadsides Journal Article)

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Inditian Latifa demonstrates how stories of lost marsh rice in Indonesia reveal how crops, floods, and memory expand the meaning of hydraulic infrastructure. Read it here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8250

Carlotta Molfese explores the relationship between infrastructures and autonomy in agroecological food production by attending to mulch and its more-than-human (de)composition. Read it here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8176

In their contribution to our latest issue, @drvanessalamb.bsky.social and @zalifung.bsky.social show how food preparation by Karen women for anti-dam gatherings is a form of solidarity infrastructure in the Salween River Basin at the Thai–Myanmar border. www.roadsides.net/articles/8234

Joanna Radin and Mark Stern consider the affective and material ways that community cookbooks once helped weave kin-relations and what has taken their place amidst yearning for collective cathecting today. Read it in our latest issue "Foodways:" www.roadsides.net/articles/8249

@tutam.bsky.social examines plantation infrastructures designed to produce cheap food and fuel, and how they intersect with locally established food infrastructures in Papua New Guinea. In our latest issue on Foodways. Read his photo essay here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8063

In their contribution to our new issue on Foodways, @kalzangmarpo.bsky.social & @mirzalibra10.bsky.social examine questions of highland mobility, infrastructures, state-making and bordering connected to ‘Chhurpi’, the Himalayan cheese. www.roadsides.net/articles/8240

@china-geographies.bsky.social examines the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia and what they tell us about the global production of food. www.roadsides.net/articles/8236

Really pleased to be part of the new issue of @roadsides.bsky.social Short piece on the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia www.roadsides.net/articles/8236

Pesticide Infrastructures: From China to Australia (Roadsides Journal Article)

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In his contribution to "Foodways," André Thiemann studies the infrastructures of value that shape the world market of raspberries by focusing on projects in Arilje, Serbia, to valorize its “taste of place”. www.roadsides.net/articles/8580

New paper with @drvanessalamb.bsky.social in @roadsides.bsky.social We show how food preparation, primarily undertaken by older Karen women, is key to contesting long-proposed hydropower dams & water diversions in the Salween River Basin Thanks editors @mattrest.bsky.social & Dolly Kikon

The new @roadsides.bsky.social collection is out, on Foodways! An excellent issue, edited by the fab @dollykikon.bsky.social and @mattrest.bsky.social www.roadsides.net/collections/...

Meghal Perera explores how vendors reject and repurpose cold chain infrastructure in a fish market in Colombo, to suit their own understandings of freshness. www.roadsides.net/articles/8248

The new issue of @roadsides.bsky.social is out! Titled "Foodways", the articles of the issue discuss the various intersections of #infrastructure and food. Edited by @mattrest.bsky.social & Dolly Kikon. Roadsides is an excellent, non-profit and community managed #OpenAcces journal! #anthropology

Collection No. 14

Roadsides' Collection No. 14

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In her photo essay, @fizza7.bsky.social recounts how the Karakoram Highway traded food sovereignty for dependency, how the road built to connect them dismantled the world for the people of Ishkoman. www.roadsides.net/articles/8243

In their Introduction to our new issue titled „Foodways“ @mattrest.bsky.social and Dolly Kikon ask: „how do foodways and their socio-cultural-cosmological scaffoldings and infrastructure condition each other?“ www.roadsides.net/articles/8888

You can find our current issue on food and infrastructure at our brand new website roadsides.net

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A metaphorical proxy for all sorts of engagements arising alongside infrastructure as they are imagined, contested, constructed, and maintained, and as they fall into disrepair. The journal offers spa...

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Matthäus Rest@mattrest.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Our introduction to the latest issue of @roadsides.bsky.social argues for an understanding of the term foodways to focus on the ways food needs infrastructure to come into, move, and be in the world: www.roadsides.net/articles/8888

Fizza Batool recounts how the Karakoram Highway traded food sovereignty for dependency and how the road built to connect the people of Ishkoman instead dismantled the world for them.

@fizza7.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Food subsidies and infrastructure are not neutral. I wrote a little thing about it. Thrilled to be part of this @roadsides.bsky.social on #Foodways. Massive thanks to the editorial team! @mattrest.bsky.social and Dolly: www.roadsides.net/articles/8243

Working on fresh approaches to infrastructures? If you can imagine editing a special issue with us, send us a proposal! Deadline for proposals: 15 November 2025 Send proposals to our editors-in-chief: Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi agnieszka.joniak@unifr.ch Tina Harris C.H.Harris@uva.nl

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CFP for the new @roadsides.bsky.social issue, CRYOSPHERE. roadsides.net/call-for-pap... "Snow and ice have long served as vital resources for human and non-human inhabitants of this planet. Today the world is experiencing immense changes to the cryosphere."

In "Ammonia Synthesis: Entering a Ubiquitous Chemical Technosphere" Benjamin Steininger rethinks ammonia synthesis and follows its specific associated toxicities, putting particular emphasis on the ‘openness’ of industrial infrastructure. roadsides.net/collection-n...

In her article "Toxic Recurrences" Kaitlyn Rabach demonstrates that crumbling homes and toxic mould go unacknowledged in County Donegal, Ireland, as residents fear speaking out will devalue their property. roadsides.net/collection-n...

In "Repairing Toxic: Deferred Maintenance in Schools" Margaret Tebbe and Fred Ariel Hernandez suggest how late-industrial ethnography can make visible some of the toxic hazards in Los Angeles school buildings. roadsides.net/collection-n...