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.