George Kirkham
@kirkham.bsky.social
PhD researcher 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
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...
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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...
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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.”
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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
www.theguardian.com
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...