Anthropology and absurdity: Introduction
Anthropology is often seen as the discipline that makes “the strange familiar and the familiar strange”. Here, however, we are
Catherine Alexander
Catherine Alexander is a professor of anthropology at Durham University. She’s published on wastes (broadly understood), changing property regimes, and the built environment amongst other things in Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Britain. She’s currently writing a book on intersections between different forms of failure in fusion energy experiments, adult social care and waste management. Some of these ideas are explored in After Failure, a JRAI special issue (2023) which she edited.