Roadsides
@roadsides.bsky.social
A scholar-led, collectively managed platinum Open Access journal designated to be a forum devoted to exploring the social, cultural and political life of infrastructure. https://roadsides.net
Inditian Latifa demonstrates how stories of lost marsh rice in Indonesia reveal how crops, floods, and memory expand the meaning of hydraulic infrastructure. Read it here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8250
December 17, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Inditian Latifa demonstrates how stories of lost marsh rice in Indonesia reveal how crops, floods, and memory expand the meaning of hydraulic infrastructure. Read it here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8250
Carlotta Molfese explores the relationship between infrastructures and autonomy in agroecological food production by attending to mulch and its more-than-human (de)composition. Read it here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8176
December 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Carlotta Molfese explores the relationship between infrastructures and autonomy in agroecological food production by attending to mulch and its more-than-human (de)composition. Read it here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8176
In their contribution to our latest issue, @drvanessalamb.bsky.social and @zalifung.bsky.social show how food preparation by Karen women for anti-dam gatherings is a form of solidarity infrastructure in the Salween River Basin at the Thai–Myanmar border. www.roadsides.net/articles/8234
December 2, 2025 at 8:36 AM
In their contribution to our latest issue, @drvanessalamb.bsky.social and @zalifung.bsky.social show how food preparation by Karen women for anti-dam gatherings is a form of solidarity infrastructure in the Salween River Basin at the Thai–Myanmar border. www.roadsides.net/articles/8234
Joanna Radin and Mark Stern consider the affective and material ways that community cookbooks once helped weave kin-relations and what has taken their place amidst yearning for collective cathecting today. Read it in our latest issue "Foodways:" www.roadsides.net/articles/8249
December 2, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Joanna Radin and Mark Stern consider the affective and material ways that community cookbooks once helped weave kin-relations and what has taken their place amidst yearning for collective cathecting today. Read it in our latest issue "Foodways:" www.roadsides.net/articles/8249
@tutam.bsky.social examines plantation infrastructures designed to produce cheap food and fuel, and how they intersect with locally established food infrastructures in Papua New Guinea. In our latest issue on Foodways. Read his photo essay here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8063
December 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
@tutam.bsky.social examines plantation infrastructures designed to produce cheap food and fuel, and how they intersect with locally established food infrastructures in Papua New Guinea. In our latest issue on Foodways. Read his photo essay here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8063
In their contribution to our new issue on Foodways, @kalzangmarpo.bsky.social & @mirzalibra10.bsky.social examine questions of highland mobility, infrastructures, state-making and bordering connected to ‘Chhurpi’, the Himalayan cheese. www.roadsides.net/articles/8240
December 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
In their contribution to our new issue on Foodways, @kalzangmarpo.bsky.social & @mirzalibra10.bsky.social examine questions of highland mobility, infrastructures, state-making and bordering connected to ‘Chhurpi’, the Himalayan cheese. www.roadsides.net/articles/8240
@china-geographies.bsky.social examines the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia and what they tell us about the global production of food. www.roadsides.net/articles/8236
December 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
@china-geographies.bsky.social examines the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia and what they tell us about the global production of food. www.roadsides.net/articles/8236
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Really pleased to be part of the new issue of @roadsides.bsky.social
Short piece on the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia
www.roadsides.net/articles/8236
Short piece on the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia
www.roadsides.net/articles/8236
Pesticide Infrastructures: From China to Australia (Roadsides Journal Article)
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December 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Really pleased to be part of the new issue of @roadsides.bsky.social
Short piece on the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia
www.roadsides.net/articles/8236
Short piece on the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia
www.roadsides.net/articles/8236
In his contribution to "Foodways," André Thiemann studies the infrastructures of value that shape the world market of raspberries by focusing on projects in Arilje, Serbia, to valorize its “taste of place”. www.roadsides.net/articles/8580
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
In his contribution to "Foodways," André Thiemann studies the infrastructures of value that shape the world market of raspberries by focusing on projects in Arilje, Serbia, to valorize its “taste of place”. www.roadsides.net/articles/8580
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New paper with @drvanessalamb.bsky.social in @roadsides.bsky.social
We show how food preparation, primarily undertaken by older Karen women, is key to contesting long-proposed hydropower dams & water diversions in the Salween River Basin
Thanks editors @mattrest.bsky.social & Dolly Kikon
We show how food preparation, primarily undertaken by older Karen women, is key to contesting long-proposed hydropower dams & water diversions in the Salween River Basin
Thanks editors @mattrest.bsky.social & Dolly Kikon
November 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
New paper with @drvanessalamb.bsky.social in @roadsides.bsky.social
We show how food preparation, primarily undertaken by older Karen women, is key to contesting long-proposed hydropower dams & water diversions in the Salween River Basin
Thanks editors @mattrest.bsky.social & Dolly Kikon
We show how food preparation, primarily undertaken by older Karen women, is key to contesting long-proposed hydropower dams & water diversions in the Salween River Basin
Thanks editors @mattrest.bsky.social & Dolly Kikon
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The new @roadsides.bsky.social collection is out, on Foodways! An excellent issue, edited by the fab @dollykikon.bsky.social and @mattrest.bsky.social
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November 28, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The new @roadsides.bsky.social collection is out, on Foodways! An excellent issue, edited by the fab @dollykikon.bsky.social and @mattrest.bsky.social
www.roadsides.net/collections/...
www.roadsides.net/collections/...
Meghal Perera explores how vendors reject and repurpose cold chain infrastructure in a fish market in Colombo, to suit their own understandings of freshness. www.roadsides.net/articles/8248
November 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Meghal Perera explores how vendors reject and repurpose cold chain infrastructure in a fish market in Colombo, to suit their own understandings of freshness. www.roadsides.net/articles/8248
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The new issue of @roadsides.bsky.social is out! Titled "Foodways", the articles of the issue discuss the various intersections of #infrastructure and food. Edited by @mattrest.bsky.social & Dolly Kikon.
Roadsides is an excellent, non-profit and community managed #OpenAcces journal!
#anthropology
Roadsides is an excellent, non-profit and community managed #OpenAcces journal!
#anthropology
Collection No. 14
Roadsides' Collection No. 14
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November 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The new issue of @roadsides.bsky.social is out! Titled "Foodways", the articles of the issue discuss the various intersections of #infrastructure and food. Edited by @mattrest.bsky.social & Dolly Kikon.
Roadsides is an excellent, non-profit and community managed #OpenAcces journal!
#anthropology
Roadsides is an excellent, non-profit and community managed #OpenAcces journal!
#anthropology
In her photo essay, @fizza7.bsky.social recounts how the Karakoram Highway traded food sovereignty for dependency, how the road built to connect them dismantled the world for the people of Ishkoman.
www.roadsides.net/articles/8243
www.roadsides.net/articles/8243
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
In her photo essay, @fizza7.bsky.social recounts how the Karakoram Highway traded food sovereignty for dependency, how the road built to connect them dismantled the world for the people of Ishkoman.
www.roadsides.net/articles/8243
www.roadsides.net/articles/8243
In their Introduction to our new issue titled „Foodways“ @mattrest.bsky.social and Dolly Kikon ask: „how do foodways and their socio-cultural-cosmological scaffoldings and infrastructure condition each other?“
www.roadsides.net/articles/8888
www.roadsides.net/articles/8888
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
In their Introduction to our new issue titled „Foodways“ @mattrest.bsky.social and Dolly Kikon ask: „how do foodways and their socio-cultural-cosmological scaffoldings and infrastructure condition each other?“
www.roadsides.net/articles/8888
www.roadsides.net/articles/8888
You can find our current issue on food and infrastructure at our brand new website roadsides.net
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
You can find our current issue on food and infrastructure at our brand new website roadsides.net
Fizza Batool recounts how the Karakoram Highway traded food sovereignty for dependency and how the road built to connect the people of Ishkoman instead dismantled the world for them.
Food subsidies and infrastructure are not neutral. I wrote a little thing about it.
Thrilled to be part of this @roadsides.bsky.social on #Foodways. Massive thanks to the editorial team! @mattrest.bsky.social and Dolly:
www.roadsides.net/articles/8243
Thrilled to be part of this @roadsides.bsky.social on #Foodways. Massive thanks to the editorial team! @mattrest.bsky.social and Dolly:
www.roadsides.net/articles/8243
The Empty Granary of Ishkoman (Roadsides Journal Article)
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November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Fizza Batool recounts how the Karakoram Highway traded food sovereignty for dependency and how the road built to connect the people of Ishkoman instead dismantled the world for them.
Working on fresh approaches to infrastructures? If you can imagine editing a special issue with us, send us a proposal!
Deadline for proposals: 15 November 2025
Send proposals to our editors-in-chief:
Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi
agnieszka.joniak@unifr.ch
Tina Harris
C.H.Harris@uva.nl
Deadline for proposals: 15 November 2025
Send proposals to our editors-in-chief:
Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi
agnieszka.joniak@unifr.ch
Tina Harris
C.H.Harris@uva.nl
Guide for Editors | Roadsides
Dear Editors, Thank you for considering editing a guest collection in Roadsides. The following Guide for Editors will help you understand the application and publication process. The Editorial Board t...
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October 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Working on fresh approaches to infrastructures? If you can imagine editing a special issue with us, send us a proposal!
Deadline for proposals: 15 November 2025
Send proposals to our editors-in-chief:
Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi
agnieszka.joniak@unifr.ch
Tina Harris
C.H.Harris@uva.nl
Deadline for proposals: 15 November 2025
Send proposals to our editors-in-chief:
Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi
agnieszka.joniak@unifr.ch
Tina Harris
C.H.Harris@uva.nl
Roadsides is Open Access, check our manifesto:
“the humanities and social sciences are too often disengaged from the public ... we want to reclaim the project of Open Access and key it to a different register of shared creativity and responsibility.”
commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/y0xy565k...
“the humanities and social sciences are too often disengaged from the public ... we want to reclaim the project of Open Access and key it to a different register of shared creativity and responsibility.”
commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/y0xy565k...
Labour of Love: An Open Access Manifesto for Freedom, Integrity, and Creativity in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences
With a number of recommendations toward the commonification of open access
commonplace.knowledgefutures.org
October 2, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Roadsides is Open Access, check our manifesto:
“the humanities and social sciences are too often disengaged from the public ... we want to reclaim the project of Open Access and key it to a different register of shared creativity and responsibility.”
commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/y0xy565k...
“the humanities and social sciences are too often disengaged from the public ... we want to reclaim the project of Open Access and key it to a different register of shared creativity and responsibility.”
commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/y0xy565k...
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CFP for the new @roadsides.bsky.social issue, CRYOSPHERE. roadsides.net/call-for-pap... "Snow and ice have long served as vital resources for human and non-human inhabitants of this planet. Today the world is experiencing immense changes to the cryosphere."
September 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
CFP for the new @roadsides.bsky.social issue, CRYOSPHERE. roadsides.net/call-for-pap... "Snow and ice have long served as vital resources for human and non-human inhabitants of this planet. Today the world is experiencing immense changes to the cryosphere."
In "Ammonia Synthesis: Entering a Ubiquitous Chemical Technosphere" Benjamin Steininger rethinks ammonia synthesis and follows its specific associated toxicities, putting particular emphasis on the ‘openness’ of industrial infrastructure. roadsides.net/collection-n...
April 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
In "Ammonia Synthesis: Entering a Ubiquitous Chemical Technosphere" Benjamin Steininger rethinks ammonia synthesis and follows its specific associated toxicities, putting particular emphasis on the ‘openness’ of industrial infrastructure. roadsides.net/collection-n...
In her article "Toxic Recurrences" Kaitlyn Rabach demonstrates that crumbling homes and toxic mould go unacknowledged in County Donegal, Ireland, as residents fear speaking out will devalue their property. roadsides.net/collection-n...
April 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
In her article "Toxic Recurrences" Kaitlyn Rabach demonstrates that crumbling homes and toxic mould go unacknowledged in County Donegal, Ireland, as residents fear speaking out will devalue their property. roadsides.net/collection-n...
In "Repairing Toxic: Deferred Maintenance in Schools" Margaret Tebbe and Fred Ariel Hernandez suggest how late-industrial ethnography can make visible some of the toxic hazards in Los Angeles school buildings. roadsides.net/collection-n...
April 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
In "Repairing Toxic: Deferred Maintenance in Schools" Margaret Tebbe and Fred Ariel Hernandez suggest how late-industrial ethnography can make visible some of the toxic hazards in Los Angeles school buildings. roadsides.net/collection-n...
In "Silica Trails: Turned Soils, Dusty Lungs" Juliana Ramos Boldrin illustrates how silica exposure can damage health, but mitigating the harm could jeopardise Brazil’s dominance in silica export. roadsides.net/collection-n...
April 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
In "Silica Trails: Turned Soils, Dusty Lungs" Juliana Ramos Boldrin illustrates how silica exposure can damage health, but mitigating the harm could jeopardise Brazil’s dominance in silica export. roadsides.net/collection-n...
In "Toxic Struggles: Asbestos in Argentina’s Subway" Jorge Afarian reveals how Buenos Aires metro workers face illegal asbestos exposure and uncovers a troubling hierarchy between acceptable and unacceptable health risks. roadsides.net/collection-n...
April 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
In "Toxic Struggles: Asbestos in Argentina’s Subway" Jorge Afarian reveals how Buenos Aires metro workers face illegal asbestos exposure and uncovers a troubling hierarchy between acceptable and unacceptable health risks. roadsides.net/collection-n...