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Professor Thomas Yarrow's Outputs (4)

Remains of the Future: rethinking space and time of ruination through the Volta Resettlement Project, Ghana (2017)
Journal Article
Yarrow, T. (2017). Remains of the Future: rethinking space and time of ruination through the Volta Resettlement Project, Ghana. Cultural Anthropology, 32(4), 566-591. https://doi.org/10.14506/ca32.4.06

Walking around the township of New Senchi, Ghana, the ghost of the original plan is still faintly discernible in linear rows of crumbling, single-story houses.1 Constructed to resettle people displaced by a large hydroelectric power scheme in the 196... Read More about Remains of the Future: rethinking space and time of ruination through the Volta Resettlement Project, Ghana.

Where Knowledge Meets: heritage expertise at the intersection of people, perspective, and place (2017)
Journal Article
Yarrow, T. (2017). Where Knowledge Meets: heritage expertise at the intersection of people, perspective, and place. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 23(S1), 95-109. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12596

Drawing on ethnographic research with heritage professionals in Scotland, the essay explores meetings as organizational devices for differentiating and relating various forms of epistemic, social, and material context. The account describes how the b... Read More about Where Knowledge Meets: heritage expertise at the intersection of people, perspective, and place.

Introduction: towards an ethnography of meeting (2017)
Journal Article
Brown, H., Reed, A., & Yarrow, T. (2017). Introduction: towards an ethnography of meeting. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 23(S1), 10-26. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12591

This introductory essay describes a novel approach to meetings in relation to broader literatures within and beyond anthropology. We suggest that notwithstanding many accounts in which meetings figure, little attention has been given to the mundane f... Read More about Introduction: towards an ethnography of meeting.