Professor Catherine Alexander's Outputs (5)

Cleaning up and moving on: Kazakhstan's 'nuclear renaissance' (2020)
Journal Article
Alexander, C. (2020). Cleaning up and moving on: Kazakhstan's 'nuclear renaissance'. Habaršy Хабаршы (Ķazaķ memlekettìk ķyzdar pedagogikalyķ universitet) (Қазақ мемлекеттік қыздар педагогикалық университеті), 4, 113-125

How do we reconcile a resilient nuclear past with what appears to be a radiant nuclear future? Kazakhstan has freed itself from the legacy of the Cold War - contaminated lands and radiation-related pathologies - to move forward. Cleaning, after all,... Read More about Cleaning up and moving on: Kazakhstan's 'nuclear renaissance'.

Global Entanglements of Recycling Policy and Practice (2020)
Book Chapter
Alexander, C., & Reno, J. (2020). Global Entanglements of Recycling Policy and Practice. In M. Aldenderfer (Ed.), Oxford research encyclopaedia of anthropology. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.18

The landscape of global economies of recycling has rapidly changed over the early 21st century. Increasingly, policy and economic and scholarly attention on environmental transformation have focused on this topic, in keeping with Gabrielle Hecht's ch... Read More about Global Entanglements of Recycling Policy and Practice.

When the Statue is both Marble and Lime (2020)
Book Chapter
Duckworth, C., Wilson, A., Van Oyen, A., Alexander, C., Evans, J., Green, C., & Mattingley, D. (2020). When the Statue is both Marble and Lime. In C. Duckworth, & A. Wilson (Eds.), Recycling and reuse in the Roman economy (449-460). Oxford University Press

Waste and its Disguises: Technologies of (Un)knowing (2020)
Journal Article
Alexander, C., & O’Hare, P. (2023). Waste and its Disguises: Technologies of (Un)knowing. Ethnos, 88(3), 419-443. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2020.1796734

The introduction to this special issue starts with a brief thematisation of the key theoretical interventions in the anthropology of waste in order to situate our own contribution. We follow this by discussing, and adding to the recent anthropology a... Read More about Waste and its Disguises: Technologies of (Un)knowing.

A Chronotope of Expansion: resisting spatio-temporal limits in a Kazakh nuclear town (2020)
Journal Article
Alexander, C. (2023). A Chronotope of Expansion: resisting spatio-temporal limits in a Kazakh nuclear town. Ethnos, 88(3), 467-490. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2020.1796735

This article starts by anatomising the various strategies used by the Soviet regime to contain and ‘disappear’ the nuclear weapon test site in Kazakhstan before moving on to outline attempts by the independent Republic of Kazakshtan's National Nuclea... Read More about A Chronotope of Expansion: resisting spatio-temporal limits in a Kazakh nuclear town.