Author: Chakad Ojani

Chakad Ojani completed his PhD in social anthropology at the University of Manchester. His doctoral research was an ethnographic study of fog capture and atmospheric attunements in coastal Peru. Chakad is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, where he is undertaking a project on outer space infrastructures and imaginaries in Sweden.

Chakad Ojani

Chakad Ojani completed his PhD in social anthropology at the University of Manchester. His doctoral research was an ethnographic study of fog capture and atmospheric attunements in coastal Peru. Chakad is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, where he is undertaking a project on outer space infrastructures and imaginaries in Sweden.

Film, Theatre or Exhibition Review Reviews

Living Water, living with lively waters (part 2)

December, 2021 / By Chakad Ojani

In What is Water? The History of a Modern Abstraction, geographer Jamie Linton (2010: 14) describes “modern water” as the […]

Failures Threads

#Failures: When things don’t hold: Anthropologies of failure, breakdown, and dysfunction

September, 2020 / By Chakad Ojani, Laura Mafizzoli and Rozafa Berisha

The fragility of our infrastructures and modes of living seldom become as ubiquitously palpable as they have with the current

Fog CCatcher irrirgation

Failures Failures Threads

Atmospheric Failure

September, 2020 / By Chakad Ojani

Fog catchers (atrapanieblas) are fairly simple constructions. They consist of large plastic or nylon nets stretched between two vertically positioned