Hannah Knox
hannahcknox.bsky.social
Hannah Knox
@hannahcknox.bsky.social
Anthropologist. Works at the University of Manchester. Studies people's lives with and alongside infrastructure, climate, energy, technology and data.
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New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast! Hannah Knox joins us to talk about the challenges climate change has posed to the concepts and methods of governing a city. Case in point: Manchester! tinyurl.com/3yax7euh @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social
Cultures of Energy: 238 - Thinking Like a Climate (feat. Hannah Knox)
Cymene and Dominic talk about screamo music and the band Phish and how you can’t fake the feels on this week’s intro to the podcast. Then (13:07) expert in all things Mancunian, the great and wondrous...
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September 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Recent attempts to shift attention from the seemingly coherent object of infrastructure to attend to a more unruly ecology reveal infrastructure’s entanglement with broader systematic imbalances—of climate, economy & culture.
@hannahcknox.bsky.social & Itay Noy in our new series "Unbuilding"
August 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Lunch and a walk along the Tyne with @chikaw.bsky.social , Hannah Knox and Adam Reed a lovely way to mark the end of our JRAI editorship. Thanks to all who submitted, reviewed and helped to make it all happen!
December 6, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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Absolutely fantastic and engaging visualisation of @cmmonwealth.bsky.social work here

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November 26, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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The series has essays by wonderful contributors who were SO great to work and think with. Thanks to all of them, as well as the Cultural Anthropology team. @dominicboyer.bsky.social @beatricecointe.bsky.social @mythrijega.bsky.social @markomonteiro.bsky.social @hannahcknox.bsky.social and many more
November 18, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Just came across Larry Lohmann's brilliant re-thinking of energy as a colonial concept, and its implications for 'energy transitions' www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/sites/thecor...
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November 14, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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We have only just published at Cultural Anthropology a new collection on "Substitution" in our Theorizing the Contemporary series. Check it out!

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Substitution
Substituting one thing for another–things, people, habits–happens all the time. Substitution is so mundane that it can easily be taken for grante...
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November 12, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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As they finalize the book for their Patchwork Ethnography project, our faculty Dr. Gökçe Günel and her collaborator Dr. Chika Watanabe are looking for early-career scholars who have benefited from the idea of patchwork ethnography. Click this link for submissions: www.patchworkethnography.com/events
November 8, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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Really pleased to be able to announce a major new research Centre funded by the ESRC. To be led by Sherilyn MacGregor, it will focus on initiatives to accelerate socially-just low carbon living. See www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/e....
Manchester to lead new £8m research centre on equitable low carbon living
Following an £8m investment over five years, The University of Manchester is set to lead an innovative centre funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and UKRI as part of its strategi...
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November 7, 2024 at 3:34 PM