Propositional politics

Michaela Spencer is a Research Fellow with the College of Indigenous Futures, Arts and Society at Charles Darwin University, Australia. Her current research involves working with Indigenous knowledge authorities, and differing traditions of knowledge and governance. This involves collaborative research for policy development, and engaging with government, service providers, university staff and Indigenous people in remote communities. So far, this work has focused on issues such as disaster resilience, emergency management, governance and leadership, remote engagement and coordination, volunteering, health and wellbeing.

James Maguire is Assistant Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. His work focuses on the manifold interfaces between, and within, environmental and digital concerns. His current book project is an ethnographic exploration of the temporal and political conse- quences of energy extraction in Iceland. His ongoing research is oriented towards sustain- able digitalization; an enquiry into how digitalization has become an object of attention for sustainable thinking. This involves projects that explore the paradoxical relationship between the deleterious environmental effects of digital processes and their promissory imaginaries of climate mitigation, as well as those that speculate about, and activate, alternative ways of creating more ethically inflected digital futures.

Hannah Knox is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UCL and Director of the UCL Centre for Digital Anthropology. Her work focuses on the study of technical projects as sites of social and cultural change, and she has conducted ethnographic research in the UK and Latin America. Recent books include Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise (co-authored with Penny Harvey) and Ethnography for a Data Saturated World (co-edited with Dawn Nafus) and Thinking like a Climate: Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change (Duke, 2020).

Andrea Ballestero is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rice University. She is also the founder and director of the Ethnography Studio (https://ethnographystudio.org/). Her research examines spaces where the law, economics and techno-science are so fused that they appear identical. Her areas of interest include the politics of knowledge production; economic, legal and political anthropology; water politics; subterranean spaces and liberal- ism. She is the author of A Future History of Water (Duke, 2019). With Brit Ross Winthereik she co-edited Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis (Duke 2021). She is now conducting research on how aquifers, property, and science yield new spatial imaginar- ies of the underground in Costa Rica.