ANTH Seminar Series | “Do You Even Lift?”: The Social Lives of Image and Performance Enhancing Drugs

It is increasingly recognised that drugs have social lives. Drugs gain meaning through social relations, and have implications for social interactions. This is particularly true of image and performance enhancing drugs (IPEDs) which literally shape people. For the past 4 years I have been immersed in online bodybuilding communities, exploring the practice, experience and meaning …

ANTH Seminar Series | Victim Regions of Pollution: Dictatorship, Chemical Violence and Transitional Justice in Post-revolutionary Tunisia

Is toxic chemical pollution a from of state violence? While in the Anthropocene all living and non-living beings are connected through industrial chemical relations, inequality, power, and politics shape the distribution of harm from noxious chemicals unto the human and non-human. Toxic pollution in other words is shaped by forms of governance. Drawing on several cases …