George Kirkham
@kirkham.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Oxford Geography interested in snakebites and the politics of global health
https://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/graduate/research/gkirkham.html
https://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/graduate/research/gkirkham.html
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Very exciting upcoming @digicologies.bsky.social conference in Oxford in February looking out how digital visual practices shape environmental knowledge and politics!
Very exciting upcoming @digicologies.bsky.social conference in Oxford in February looking out how digital visual practices shape environmental knowledge and politics!
The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies
A two-day conference with cutting-edge presentations from academics, artists, and practitioners on the visual politics of digital ecologies.
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January 8, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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Very exciting upcoming @digicologies.bsky.social conference in Oxford in February looking out how digital visual practices shape environmental knowledge and politics!
Very exciting upcoming @digicologies.bsky.social conference in Oxford in February looking out how digital visual practices shape environmental knowledge and politics!
Reposted by George Kirkham
A great article by @kirkham.bsky.social via @biosocieties.bsky.social : Making sense of snakebite: the place of biological toxins in social scientific analyses of toxicity (OA) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Making sense of snakebite: the place of biological toxins in social scientific analyses of toxicity - BioSocieties
Through an ethnographic study of snakebite governance in Kerala, India, this article argues that social scientific theories of toxicity elucidate the biosocial dimensions of snakebite envenomation (SB...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
A great article by @kirkham.bsky.social via @biosocieties.bsky.social : Making sense of snakebite: the place of biological toxins in social scientific analyses of toxicity (OA) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reposted by George Kirkham
Excellent and important special issue of @biosocieties.bsky.social just out! Have a look:
"Reconceptualising Toxicity and Environmental Justice", guest edited by Raffaele Ippolito, Anna Lora‑Wainwright, Beth Greenhough & Maaret Jokela‑Pansini
link.springer.com/journal/4129...
"Reconceptualising Toxicity and Environmental Justice", guest edited by Raffaele Ippolito, Anna Lora‑Wainwright, Beth Greenhough & Maaret Jokela‑Pansini
link.springer.com/journal/4129...
BioSocieties
BioSocieties is a journal dedicated to research on the interrelationship between the life sciences and societyExplores how biotechnology, biomedicine, and ...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Excellent and important special issue of @biosocieties.bsky.social just out! Have a look:
"Reconceptualising Toxicity and Environmental Justice", guest edited by Raffaele Ippolito, Anna Lora‑Wainwright, Beth Greenhough & Maaret Jokela‑Pansini
link.springer.com/journal/4129...
"Reconceptualising Toxicity and Environmental Justice", guest edited by Raffaele Ippolito, Anna Lora‑Wainwright, Beth Greenhough & Maaret Jokela‑Pansini
link.springer.com/journal/4129...
Pleased to share this paper for BioSocieties on snakebite in Kerala. I explore how social scientific theories of toxicity aid in conceiving of the structural vulnerabilities, diagnostic uncertainty, and multispecies health impacts that characterise snakebite's public health response.
Making sense of snakebite: the place of biological toxins in social scientific analyses of toxicity - BioSocieties
Through an ethnographic study of snakebite governance in Kerala, India, this article argues that social scientific theories of toxicity elucidate the biosocial dimensions of snakebite envenomation (SB...
link.springer.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Pleased to share this paper for BioSocieties on snakebite in Kerala. I explore how social scientific theories of toxicity aid in conceiving of the structural vulnerabilities, diagnostic uncertainty, and multispecies health impacts that characterise snakebite's public health response.
'We did not see anything' - fantastic short story exploring the complexities of ecotourism, fortress conservation, and the emotional connections that displaced peoples retain towards their land
Anthropology and Humanism | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library
This story captures the tensions observed during multiple tiger safaris conducted as part of my fieldwork in a central Indian Tiger Reserve. Through the perspective of the reserve's first female guid...
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April 23, 2025 at 1:16 AM
'We did not see anything' - fantastic short story exploring the complexities of ecotourism, fortress conservation, and the emotional connections that displaced peoples retain towards their land
"Despite each bodymap being unique, there are recurring motifs, such as shadows. “Participants use them in the sense that they are only a shadow of what they were before and that they feel left behind. The world has moved on, but they still live in the pandemic.”
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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‘We think of the body as a map’: a new approach to deciphering long Covid
People with post-infectious diseases sometimes struggle to communicate the debilitating impact of their conditions. But a new technique can help them explain visually
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January 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"Despite each bodymap being unique, there are recurring motifs, such as shadows. “Participants use them in the sense that they are only a shadow of what they were before and that they feel left behind. The world has moved on, but they still live in the pandemic.”
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...