Chakad Ojani
@chakadojani.bsky.social
Anthropologist of infrastructures, environmental anthropology, and STS | Stockholm University | http://chakadojani.com
Specifically, I show that the captivating qualities of ethnography derive from the narrative trope of captor-turned-captive, as incomplete entrapments of the field are often used as a device for turning ethnographer and reader into entrapped. (3/3)
September 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Specifically, I show that the captivating qualities of ethnography derive from the narrative trope of captor-turned-captive, as incomplete entrapments of the field are often used as a device for turning ethnographer and reader into entrapped. (3/3)
✨️✨️✨️ Folks, we have a contract!! Stay tuned for my upcoming book on fog capture in Peru (title TBD), which will be published open access with University of California Press ✨️✨️✨️
August 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
✨️✨️✨️ Folks, we have a contract!! Stay tuned for my upcoming book on fog capture in Peru (title TBD), which will be published open access with University of California Press ✨️✨️✨️
"Afterword: Capture and the Axial Technologies of Anthropology" by @acorsin.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
"Afterword: Capture and the Axial Technologies of Anthropology" by @acorsin.bsky.social
"Ethnographic Lessons from Experimental Filmmaking: Capture and Captivation in Contemporary Iranian Cinema" by Chakad Ojani
July 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
"Ethnographic Lessons from Experimental Filmmaking: Capture and Captivation in Contemporary Iranian Cinema" by Chakad Ojani
"A Captivating Place: Trapping People, Value, and Meaning in a Heritage City" by Sam Rumé
July 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
"A Captivating Place: Trapping People, Value, and Meaning in a Heritage City" by Sam Rumé
"Just for Fun: Playfulness as Self-Entrapment among Elderly Working-Class Queer Men in Shanghai" by Qing Shen
July 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
"Just for Fun: Playfulness as Self-Entrapment among Elderly Working-Class Queer Men in Shanghai" by Qing Shen
"People Capture: Knowledge Workers and Complicity in Australian Carbon Capture and Storage" by @secondordersocialresearch.com
July 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
"People Capture: Knowledge Workers and Complicity in Australian Carbon Capture and Storage" by @secondordersocialresearch.com
"‘One Step Ahead’: Tales of Treasure Traps, Limitation, and Possibility in Northwestern Turkey" by Sinan Jabban
July 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
"‘One Step Ahead’: Tales of Treasure Traps, Limitation, and Possibility in Northwestern Turkey" by Sinan Jabban
"To Capture a Bride, or: Mauss in the Sahara" by Judith Scheele
July 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
"To Capture a Bride, or: Mauss in the Sahara" by Judith Scheele
Our special issue on Anthropologies of Capture is finally here -- co-edited with Ana Chiritoiu and published with Social Analysis!! This issue has been a long time in the making, and I'm thrilled to see it out in the world.
Read the introduction here: doi.org/10.3167/sa.2....
Read the introduction here: doi.org/10.3167/sa.2....
July 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Our special issue on Anthropologies of Capture is finally here -- co-edited with Ana Chiritoiu and published with Social Analysis!! This issue has been a long time in the making, and I'm thrilled to see it out in the world.
Read the introduction here: doi.org/10.3167/sa.2....
Read the introduction here: doi.org/10.3167/sa.2....
Woah! This is what happens when you publish something (an op-ed piece!) in Nature 👇
May 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Woah! This is what happens when you publish something (an op-ed piece!) in Nature 👇
If space professionals posit smallness as ground rather than figure, emergent threats to their activities dramatically flip the order between smallness and largeness. To bracket scale in the interest of connectivity and comparison ultimately reintroduces scale as a problem. (5/5)
May 6, 2025 at 11:26 AM
If space professionals posit smallness as ground rather than figure, emergent threats to their activities dramatically flip the order between smallness and largeness. To bracket scale in the interest of connectivity and comparison ultimately reintroduces scale as a problem. (5/5)
The allure of smallness relies on interscalar practices whereby something that shrinks in size simultaneously magnifies its scale of significance, meanwhile pushing terrestrial infrastructures into the background and figuring largeness as an outcome, not a precondition. (3/5)
May 6, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The allure of smallness relies on interscalar practices whereby something that shrinks in size simultaneously magnifies its scale of significance, meanwhile pushing terrestrial infrastructures into the background and figuring largeness as an outcome, not a precondition. (3/5)
Drawing on research in Sweden, the article focuses on imaginaries underpinning the contemporary commercialization of space. Specifically, I hone in on the envisaged potential of miniaturized satellite technology to modify how humans relate to Earth and the cosmos. (2/5)
May 6, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Drawing on research in Sweden, the article focuses on imaginaries underpinning the contemporary commercialization of space. Specifically, I hone in on the envisaged potential of miniaturized satellite technology to modify how humans relate to Earth and the cosmos. (2/5)
Followed by Alyne Costa and @cbruunjensen.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Followed by Alyne Costa and @cbruunjensen.bsky.social
Another fascinating talk by Emilia Sanabria
April 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Another fascinating talk by Emilia Sanabria
Right now: @mdelac.bsky.social giving her Vega symposium keynote lecture in Stockholm
April 24, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Right now: @mdelac.bsky.social giving her Vega symposium keynote lecture in Stockholm
Lol I'm sure the reindeer love hanging out around that rocket.
"Swedish access to space"
"Swedish access to space"
April 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Lol I'm sure the reindeer love hanging out around that rocket.
"Swedish access to space"
"Swedish access to space"
Bruno Latour in an ad for a stock trading platform in the Stockhom metro. I always knew there was something odd about him!
March 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Bruno Latour in an ad for a stock trading platform in the Stockhom metro. I always knew there was something odd about him!
These empirical-ethnographic connections and comparisons encourage an anthropological approach that attends to the way Earth is occasionally rendered extraterrestrial-like by our interlocutors. (5/5)
March 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
These empirical-ethnographic connections and comparisons encourage an anthropological approach that attends to the way Earth is occasionally rendered extraterrestrial-like by our interlocutors. (5/5)
and analogically, by actors who envisage extraplanetary futures vis-à-vis mining and the subterranean. (4/5)
March 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
and analogically, by actors who envisage extraplanetary futures vis-à-vis mining and the subterranean. (4/5)
But relations between mining and space are also invoked ethnographically: in oppositional terms, by herders for whom the launch site serves to hold mining companies at bay; in a positive sense, among space enthusiasts who call for synergies between the two industries; (3/5)
March 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
But relations between mining and space are also invoked ethnographically: in oppositional terms, by herders for whom the launch site serves to hold mining companies at bay; in a positive sense, among space enthusiasts who call for synergies between the two industries; (3/5)
Coincidentally, smallness is also used by anthropologists as a means to carve out space in a broader economy of academic knowledge production. Can this attention to smallness be repurposed to investigate the role of smallness in pursuits of macro effects? (5/5)
February 18, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Coincidentally, smallness is also used by anthropologists as a means to carve out space in a broader economy of academic knowledge production. Can this attention to smallness be repurposed to investigate the role of smallness in pursuits of macro effects? (5/5)