Publications

monographs
2001        Advocacy After Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders. University of Chicago Press. (Awarded the 2003, biannual Sharon Stephens Prize by the American Ethnological Society)

edited volumes
2009        Major Works in Cultural Anthropology, Vol 1-4: Moorings, Modernities, Emergence, Engagements. Sage (co-edited with Mike Fortun).

1998        Science as Culture Vol. 7, No. 2, special issue on the politics of collaboration. (co-edited with Todd Cherkasky)

essays
2009                “Environmental Right-To-Know and the Transmutations of Law,” Catastrophe: Law, Politics and the Humanitarian Impulse edited by Austin Sarat. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

“Figuring Out Ethnography,” Fieldwork Is Not What It Used To Be: Learning Anthropology’s Method in a Time of Transition edited by James D. Faubion and George E. Marcus. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

“Scaling and Visualizing Multi-sited Ethnography,” Multi-sited Ethnography: Theory, Praxis and Locality in Contemporary Research edited by Mark Falzon. London: Ashgate.

“Introduction,” Major Works in Cultural Anthropology, Vol 1-4: Moorings, Modernities, Emergence, Engagements edited by Kim Fortun and Mike Fortun. Sage (co-authored with Mike Fortun).

2006        “Poststructuralism, Technoscience and the Promise of Public Anthropology,” India Review Vol 5. No 2-3.  Fall.

2005        “Scientific Imaginaries and Ethical Plateaus in Contemporary U.S. Toxicology,” American Anthropologist.  Vol 107. No 1.  March. (co-authored with Mike Fortun)

2004         “Environmental Information Systems and Appropriate Technology,” Design Issues Vol 20. No.3. Fall.

“From Bhopal to the Informating of Environmental Health: Risk Communication in Historical Perspective,” OSIRIS (Special issue: Landscapes of Exposure: Knowledge and Illness in Modern Environments, edited by Gregg Mitman, Michelle Murphy and Christopher Sellers) Vol 19.

2003        “Ethnography In/Of/As Open Systems,” p171-190 Reviews in Anthropology Vol 32/2.

2002         “Review Essay: Uncertain Hazards: Environmental Activists and Scientific Proof.” Ethics, Place and Environment. Vol 5/1. March.

2000         “Net Risk: Environmental Information Design, Access and Literacy,” PDC 2000: Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference edited by T. Cherkasky, J. Greenbaum, P. Mambrey and J. K. Pors. Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.

“Remembering Bhopal, Re-figuring Liability,” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. Vol 2. No 2.

“Aftereffects,” Late Editions 8, Zeroing in on the Year 2000 edited by George Marcus. University of Chicago Press. (co-authored with Mike Fortun)

“The Work of Markets: Filming Within Indian Mediascapes, 1997,” Late Editions 7, Para/Sites: New Locales of Cultural Production edited by George Marcus.  University of Chicago Press. (co-authored with Mike Fortun)

“Expatriating Anthropology, Writing Thailand,” Late Editions 7, Para/Sites: New Locales of Cultural Production edited by George Marcus. University of Chicago Press.  (co-authored with Jeff Petry and Mike Fortun)

1999        “Locating Corporate Environmentalism: Synthetics, Implosions and the Bhopal Disaster,” Critical Anthropology Now: Unexpected Contexts, Shifting Constituencies, Changing Agendas edited by George Marcus.  Seattle: University of Washington Press.

“Lone Gunmen: Legacies of the Gulf War, Illness and Unseen Enemies,” Late Editions 6, Conspiracy / Theories edited by George Marcus.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

“Due Diligence and the Pursuit of Transparency: The Securities and Exchange Commission, 1996,” Late Editions 6, Conspiracy / Theories edited by George Marcus.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (co-authored with Mike Fortun)

1998        “Politics, Critique, Disaster: The Bhopal Case,” Science as Culture Vol. 7, No. 2.

“Toward a Politics of Collaboration,” Science as Culture Vol. 7, No. 2. (co-authored with Todd Cherkasky)

“Citizens, Inc.: Bottom-Up Organizing in Bottom-Line Contexts,” Late Editions 5, Corporate Futures: The Diffusion of the Culturally Sensitive Corporate Form edited by George Marcus.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

“Making Space, Speaking Truth: The Institute for Policy Studies, 1963-1995,” Late Editions 5, Corporate Futures: The Diffusion of the Culturally Sensitive Corporate Form edited by George Marcus.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.  (co-authored with Mike Fortun)

1996        “Representing Bhopal,” Late Editions 3, Connected: Engagements with Media edited by George Marcus. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

“Horizons of Interactivity: Making the News at Time-Warner,” Late Editions 3, Connected: Engagement with Media edited by George Marcus.  (co-authored with John Monberg)

1995        “Rehabilitating Science, Imagining Bhopal,” Late Editions 2, Technoscientific Imaginaries edited by George Marcus. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

1994        “Preface,” Inside Bhopal: A Worker’s Story by T. R. Chouhan and Others. New York: Apex Press.

1993        Writing Bhopal: Anthropological Perspectives on India, Environmentalism and the Politics of Disaster dissertation submitted to the Department of Anthropology, Rice University.