Chakad Ojani
Affiliated Researcher at Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology; Cultural Anthropology; Affiliated
- E-mail:
- chakad.ojani@antro.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Thunbergsvägen 3 H
- Postal address:
- Box 631
751 26 Uppsala
Visiting researcher at Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS)
- E-mail:
- chakad.ojani@swedishcollegium.se
- Visiting address:
- Villavägen 6C
752 38 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Villavägen 6C
752 38 Uppsala
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Short presentation
I am a social anthropologist working at the intersection between infrastructures and environments. My research is concerned with the socio-political possibilities that infrastructures enable and foreclose, as well as the practices of speculation that the infrastructure-environment nexus engenders. I am currently writing a monograph on fog capture in Peru.
Keywords
- data
- water
- urban studies
- sts
- ethnography
- conservation
- infrastructure
- atmosphere
- environment
- speculation
- outer space
- science fiction

Publications
Selection of publications
Ecology of capture: Creating land titles out of thin air in coastal Peru
Part of Ethnos, p. 80-99, 2024
Smallness and Small-device Heuristics: Scaling Fog Catchers Down and Up in Lima, Peru
Part of Social Anthropology, p. 39-53, 2023
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Part of Environment and Planning E, p. 24-41, 2023
The Promise of Fog Capture: Ground-Touching Clouds as a Material (Im)Possibility in Peru
Part of Cultural anthropology, p. 225-250, 2023
- DOI for The Promise of Fog Capture: Ground-Touching Clouds as a Material (Im)Possibility in Peru
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Displacing (in)formality: Endangered species, endangered city, and unstable grounds of comparison
Part of Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, p. 516-536, 2022
Water in atmospheric suspension: Contact zones between ethnography and speculative realism
Part of Social Analysis, p. 62-84, 2022
Speculative relations in Lima: Encounters with the limits of fog capture and ethnography
Part of HAU, p. 468-481, 2022
Recent publications
Infrastructures and environments in late industrialism: An introduction
Part of kritisk etnografi, p. 9-20, 2024
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Ecology of capture: Creating land titles out of thin air in coastal Peru
Part of Ethnos, p. 80-99, 2024
Urban fog oasis conservation: Endangerment, invasiones and informal urbanization in Lima
Part of Urban Natures, p. 237-250, Berghahn Books, 2023
As Above, So Below: Vertical Territory in Northern Sweden
Part of Platypus, 2023
Smallness and Small-device Heuristics: Scaling Fog Catchers Down and Up in Lima, Peru
Part of Social Anthropology, p. 39-53, 2023
- DOI for Smallness and Small-device Heuristics: Scaling Fog Catchers Down and Up in Lima, Peru
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All publications
Articles in journal
Infrastructures and environments in late industrialism: An introduction
Part of kritisk etnografi, p. 9-20, 2024
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Ecology of capture: Creating land titles out of thin air in coastal Peru
Part of Ethnos, p. 80-99, 2024
As Above, So Below: Vertical Territory in Northern Sweden
Part of Platypus, 2023
Smallness and Small-device Heuristics: Scaling Fog Catchers Down and Up in Lima, Peru
Part of Social Anthropology, p. 39-53, 2023
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Material engagements with fog in Lima
Part of Roadsides, p. 17-25, 2023
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Ethnographic research of outer space: Challenges and opportunities
Part of Ethnography, p. 1-20, 2023
Part of Environment and Planning E, p. 24-41, 2023
The Promise of Fog Capture: Ground-Touching Clouds as a Material (Im)Possibility in Peru
Part of Cultural anthropology, p. 225-250, 2023
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Miljöarbetet i Lima krockar med stadens utsatta invånare
Part of Utvecklingsmagasinet, 2023
Displacing (in)formality: Endangered species, endangered city, and unstable grounds of comparison
Part of Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, p. 516-536, 2022
Exploring the extraplanetary: Social studies of outer space
Part of Anthropology Today, p. 9-12, 2022
Speculations on Islamic sonic-aeolian cosmotechnics
Part of Fragmentary Institute of Comparative Timelines, 2022
Water in atmospheric suspension: Contact zones between ethnography and speculative realism
Part of Social Analysis, p. 62-84, 2022
Speculative relations in Lima: Encounters with the limits of fog capture and ethnography
Part of HAU, p. 468-481, 2022
The (ontological) politics of fog capture in Lima, Peru
Part of Anthropology Today, p. 13-16, 2021
Infrastructuralizing outer space, un-earthing anthropology
Part of Antroperspektiv, 2021
Attunements to fog: Capture as an idiom for more-than-human entanglements
Part of NatureCulture, 2020
Part of Allegra, 2020
#Failures: When things don't hold: Anthropologies of failure, breakdown, and dysfunction
Part of Allegra lab, 2020
Chapters in book
Urban fog oasis conservation: Endangerment, invasiones and informal urbanization in Lima
Part of Urban Natures, p. 237-250, Berghahn Books, 2023
Infrastructures, Anthropology of
Part of The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, p. 1-8, Wiley-Blackwell, 2021
Other
Part of Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, p. 470-471, 2023
Anthropology against, of, and with data practices
Part of Anthropology Book Forum, 2022
Multiple nature-cultures, diverse anthropologies
Part of Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, p. 193-195, 2021
Aeolian politics and the duograph
Part of Anthropology Book Forum, 2021
Part of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, p. 152-153, 2021
Fallout, security, and alternative planetary futures
Part of Anthropology Book Forum, 2021
Living Water, living with lively waters
Part of Allegra, 2021
Part of Social Anthropology, p. 207-208, 2020