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2022 “Shacktopia: The Meantime Future of Humanitarian Design.” Special issue on “Curious Utopias” Social Anthropology 30: 2: 16-33.
2021 “When We Were Modern” (Festschrift for Paul Rabinow) HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 11 (2): 726–730
2020 “The Danger of a Single Threat” Fieldsights, Cultural Anthropology. Editor’s Forum Covid-19
2019 “The Usefulness of Uncertain Critique.” A Time for Critique, eds. Didier Fassin and Bernard Harcourt. Columbia University Press, 71-90.
2018 “On Band-Aids and Magic Bullets.” Limn 9, Little Development Devices/Humanitarian Goods. Edited by Stephen J. Collier, Jamie Cross, Peter Redfield and Alice Street.
2018 “Beyond Happy Endings.” The Global Health Reader, Peter Brown and Svea Closser, eds., Oxford University Press, 314-323.
2018 “Intervention.” Theorizing the Contemporary, collection “Keywords for Ethnography and Design”, Fieldsights, Cultural Anthropology website, March 29, 2018.
2016 (with Steven Robins) “An Index of Waste: Humanitarian Design, ‘Dignified Living’ and the Politics of Infrastructure in Cape Town.” Anthropology of Southern Africa, 39: 2: 145-162.
2016 “Fluid Technologies: The Bush Pump, the LifeStraw® and Microworlds of Humanitarian Design.” Social Studies of Science, 46(2): 159–183.
2016 “Doctors Without Borders and the Global Emergency.” Vital Signs: Medical Anthropology in the 21st Century, L. Manderson, A. Hardon and E. Cartwright, eds. NY: Routledge, 359-363.
2016 “Imagined Immunities” Commentary for theme issue on Clinic in Crisis. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry.
2015 ““A Measured Good”.” Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of Practice (S. Abramowitz and C. Panter-Brick, eds.) University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015, 242-251.
2015 (with Emma Kowal et al). “The Open Question: Medical Anthropology and Open Access.” Medicine, Anthropology and Theory 2, no. 1: 75–94.
2015 “Shadow Stories” Somatosphere Film Forum on In the Shadow of Ebola
2015 “Modernity as a Fragile Milieu” Invited contribution to Somatosphere Book Forum on Richard Keller’s Fatal Isolation
2014 “Medical Vulnerability, or Where There Is No Kit.” Limn, issue 5 (Ebola’s Ecologies)
2014 “Triage sans frontières.” La médecine du tri: Histoire, éthique, anthropologie (G. Lachenal , C. Lefèvre, and V.K. Nguyen, eds.) Presses Universitaires de France. 81-102.
2014 Entry for “Human” in Commonplaces project, Somatosphere
2013 “Contact/Access: Provocation.” FieldSights, Cultural Anthropology.
2013 “Eyes Wide Shut in Transnational Science and Aid.” Comment on “Public Secrets in Public Health: Knowing Not to Know While Making Scientific Knowledge” (Geissler) American Ethnologist, 40: 1: 35-37.
2013 Life in Crisis: The Ethical Journey of Doctors Without Borders. Berkeley: University of California Press.
2012 “Sleeping Sickness and the Limits of ‘Biological Citizenship’” In W.Geissler, R. Rottenburg and J. Zenker, eds. Rethinking Biomedicine and Governance in Africa. (Transcript), 229-249.
2012 “Humanitarianism.” In A Companion to Moral Anthropology (D. Fassin, ed.) Malden, MA: Blackwell, 451-467.
2012 “The Unbearable Lightness of Expats: Double Binds of Humanitarian Mobility” Cultural Anthropology 27: 2 (May): 358-382.
2012 “Bioexpectations: Life Technologies as Humanitarian Goods.” Public Culture 24: 1 (Feb): 157-184.
2012 “Secular Humanitarianism and Sacred Life.” What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a (Not So) Secular Age. (C. Bender and A. Taves, eds.). SSRC/Columbia University Press, 144-178.
2011 “Cleaning Up the Cold War: Global Humanitarianism and the Infrastructure of Crisis Response.” In Gabrielle Hecht, ed., Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War (MIT Press), 267-291.
2011 “The Impossible Problem of Neutrality.” Forces of Compassion: Humanitarianism Between Ethics and Politics. (Redfield & Bornstein, eds.) SAR Press, Advanced Seminar Series, 53-70.
2011 (co-edited with Erica Bornstein). Forces of Compassion: Humanitarianism Between Ethics and Politics. Santa Fe: SAR Press, Advanced Seminar Series.
2010 “The Verge of Crisis: Doctors Without Borders in Uganda.” In Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions (D. Fassin and M. Pandolfi, eds.), Zone Books. 173-195.
2009 (with Ed Rackley) “The Explosive Remnants of War.” In Catastrophe: Law, Politics, and the Humanitarian Impulse (A. Sarat and J. Lezaun, eds.) University of Massachusetts Press, 212-235.
2008 “Vital Mobility and the Humanitarian Kit.” In A. Lakoff and S. Collier, eds. Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question. NY: Columbia University Press, 147-171.
2008 “Sacrifice, Triage and Global Humanitarianism.” In M. Barnett and T. Weiss eds. Humanitarianism in Question: Politics, Power, Ethics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 196-214.
2008 “Doctors Without Borders and the Moral Economy of Pharmaceuticals.” In A. Bullard, ed., Human Rights in Crisis, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press, pp. 129-144.
2006 “A Less Modest Witness: Collective Advocacy and Motivated Truth in a Medical Humanitarian Movement” American Ethnologist, 33: 1 (Feb 2006): 3-26.
2005 “Doctors, Borders and Life in Crisis” Cultural Anthropology, 20:3 (Aug 2005): 328-361. Winner of the 2006 Cultural Horizons Prize, Society for Cultural Anthropology.
2005 “Foucault in the Tropics: Displacing the Panopticon” Jonathan Xavier Inda, ed. Foucault and the Anthropology of Modernity. Blackwell Books, 50-79.
2005 “Biting the Hand that Feeds You.” My Sweet La Mancha. Geneva: MSF International, 85-89.
2004 “A Few of His Favorite Things.” Review of My Cocaine Museum (Taussig), Anthropological Quarterly, featured new release section, 77:2: 355-363.
2003 (with Silvia Tomášková) “The Exile of Anthropology.” In Rebecca Saunders, ed. The Concept of the Foreign. Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield), 71-90.
2002 “The Half-Life of Empire in Outer Space.” Social Studies of Science (special issue on “Postcolonial Technoscience,” co-edited by Warwick Anderson and Gabrielle Hecht). 32: 6 (Dec.): 791-825.
2000 Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana. University of California Press.
1996 “Beneath a Modern Sky: Space Technology and its Place on the Ground.” Science, Technology and Human Values, 21: 3 (June): 251-274.
1992 “Remembering the Revolution, Forgetting the Empire: Notes after the French Bicentennial.” Visual Anthropology Review, 8:2: 58-75.