Joanne Nucho

I am an anthropologist and filmmaker who specializes in the politics of the built environment and infrastructure, nonfiction and experimental film and video as well as visual ethnography.

My first book, Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon: Infrastructures, Public Services and Power (Princeton University Press, 2016), is about how fragmented infrastructures in Lebanon — things like private electricity generator subscription systems and social welfare managed by religious-affiliated institutions— help to produce and recalibrate notions of sectarian belonging and exclusion. I have also written about how contestations over infrastructure...