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Professor Penny Harvey FBA

Anthropology of state effects, infrastructures, engineering, materiality and communicative practice drawing on long term ethnographic research in Peru and more recently in the UK. Current focus on nuclear waste disposal, emergent publics and the politics and temporalities of place-making
Headshot of Professor Penny Harvey FBA
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2022
Subjects
Anthropology
Sections
Anthropology and Geography
Website
https://pennyharveywebsite.wordpress.com/

Current posts

University of Manchester Professor of Social Anthropology

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