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Dr Kimberly Jamie's Outputs (2)

Reading Clay: The Temporal and Transformative Potential of Clay in Contemporary Scientific Practice (2022)
Journal Article
Bryant, L., Jamie, K., & Sharples, G. (2023). Reading Clay: The Temporal and Transformative Potential of Clay in Contemporary Scientific Practice. Journal of Material Culture, 28(1), 87-105. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591835221074159

Clay has a long history in the global south and has been extensively studied by ‘Western’ social scientists particularly anthropologists and archeologists in relation to histories of earlier civilisations and cultural practices. Clay in relation to c... Read More about Reading Clay: The Temporal and Transformative Potential of Clay in Contemporary Scientific Practice.

The social and material life of medicinal clay: Exploring antimicrobial resistance, medicines' materiality and medicines optimization (2020)
Journal Article
Jamie, K., & Sharples, G. (2020). The social and material life of medicinal clay: Exploring antimicrobial resistance, medicines' materiality and medicines optimization. Frontiers in Sociology, 5, Article 26. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2020.00026

While sociologists have made significant theoretical contributions to the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) debate, little attention has been given to the antimicrobial products themselves. Here we advocate a significant new direction which centres on t... Read More about The social and material life of medicinal clay: Exploring antimicrobial resistance, medicines' materiality and medicines optimization.