Author: Julie Y. Chu

Julie Y. Chu is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and the author of Cosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China. Her current book project is The Hinge of Time: Chronopolitics and Infrastructure at China’s Global Edge. Based on fieldwork with Chinese migrant couriers and customs inspectors, this work examines how figures of “infrastructure” animate the global politics of time in three distinct keys -- as matters of constancy, rhythm and non/event.

Julie Y. Chu

Un/boxing Fulfillment: A Field Guide to Logistical Worlds

March, 2020 / By Julie Y. Chu, Philana Woo, Kenzell Huggins, Heangjin Park, Harini Kumar and Jack Mullee

In the classic origin tale of “The Box” and its seductions, Pandora is driven by curiosity—a distinctly feminized will to […]