Lectures

August 13, 2020

Outsides and insides: Covid-19 seen from the first floor of a house in Mirpur, Dhaka

This article is part of the series: Dispatches from the pandemic

In this contribution to Somatosphere’s Dispatches from the Pandemic we attend to practices of boundary making, of separating outsides from insides. The new coronavirus appeared on the global stage as a threatening invader that is to be kept outside of human bodies. But it is not obvious how to achieve this. Where and how to make the boundaries around those …

Lectures

May 3, 2020

Clean in Times of Covid-19: on Hygiene and Pollution

By Mandy de Wilde, Weera Koopman and Annemarie Mol

This article is part of the series: Dispatches from the pandemic

As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, air pollution and greenhouse emissions decrease, or so news reports say. The satellite images of China in lockdown provided a first striking example. In response to this, one Dutch newspaper even proclaimed ‘a winner’ in the coronavirus pandemic, namely ‘the environment’. But that is a bit too hasty. Not only are (as environmental experts warn) …

Features

October 4, 2016

Juxtaposition

By Annemarie Mol

Editor: The following is an introduction to a new Japanese translation of The body multiple. It can be purchased through Suiseisha publishers, as part of their series on The Anthropological Turn.

The body multiple (Japanese translation)

In 1982/3 I spent the academic year in Paris. There I lived in the Cité Universitaire—student housing that was built in the aftermath of the …

Features

June 8, 2015

Exemplary: The case of the farmer and the turpentine

By Annemarie Mol

This post is part of our new series, The Ethnographic Case.

In 1976, when I was eighteen and he was eighty-four, my grandfather told me the case of the young farmer and the turpentine. By then this case was more than fifty years old. It stemmed from the time that my grandfather, Chris Mol, worked as a general practitioner …

Features Teaching Resources

March 19, 2014

A reader’s guide to the “ontological turn” – Part 4

By Annemarie Mol

This article is part of the series: A reader's guide to the "ontological turn"

Editor’s note: In the wake of all the discussion about the ‘ontological turn’ at this year’s American Anthropological Association conference, we asked four scholars, “which texts or resources would you recommend to a student or colleague interested in the uses of ‘ontology’ as an analytical category in recent work in anthropology and science and technology studies?” This was the answer …

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Author Archives: Annemarie Mol

Outsides and insides: Covid-19 seen from the first floor of a house in Mirpur, Dhaka

Clean in Times of Covid-19: on Hygiene and Pollution

Juxtaposition

Exemplary: The case of the farmer and the turpentine

A reader’s guide to the “ontological turn” – Part 4