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Prof Hannah Knox
Room 241
14 Taviton Street
London
WC1H 0BW
Appointment
- Professor of Anthropology
- Dept of Anthropology
- Faculty of S&HS
Biography
Hannah gained her PhD from the University of Manchester in 2003. Her PhD was a study of new media start up firms and an economic development organisation. It looked at the cultural imaginaries associated with the promise of ICTs and the ways in which new media technologies were framing ideas about economy, exchange and work in contemporary Britain.
She subsequently worked at Manchester Business School on a project exploring the role of information and communications technologies in managing the problem of knowledge in large multinational organisations.
In 2004 Hannah joined the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change at the University of Manchester, an interdisciplinary research centre oriented to the social and cultural analysis of all aspects of social change. Here, she conducted on road construction in Peru, on engineering in the UK and on climate change mitigation activities also in the UK. During her time at CRESC she was co-convenor, with Penny Harvey, of a research strand on Infrastructures and Social Change, and she continues her work with CRESC in leading a research strand on the Social Life of Methods (2014-2017).
Hannah joined UCL in 2014 as a Lecturer in Digital Anthropology and Material Culture.
Research Themes
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Hannah gained her PhD from the University of Manchester in 2003 and joined UCL in 2014 after from the
ESRC Centre for Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) at the University of
Manchester.
Her research
is concerned with understanding processes of social and political
transformation through the ethnographic study of technical relations and
expert practices. Over the years her work has moved from a focus on
struggles over knowledge
and expertise to incorporate the role that materials of different kinds
play in shaping techno-political relations. She has conducted research
with new media entrepreneurs and economic development practitioners in
the UK, IT managers and digital modellers
in global corporations, and road construction and design engineers in
Peru. Most recently she has been studying the politics of energy and
climate change in a project that has been following the pursuit of
carbon reduction strategies by a network of scientists,
activists and local authority officers in Manchester, UK. Her work is concerned with understanding contemporary manifestations of risk and responsibility, territorial politics, expertise, knowledge and technology.
She is the co-editor of Ethnography for Data Saturated World (2018) and ‘Objects and Materials: A Routledge Companion’ (2013), and author of Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise (2015). Her next book Thinking like a Climate is due to be published in 2020.
Teaching Summary
My main areas of teaching are in digital anthropology and the anthropology of infrastructure, and I work with both undergraduates and masters students.
I am interested in supervising PhD students working on topics associated with the anthropology of climate change and energy, sociality and data, infrastructure, expertise, and the techno-politics of environmental change.
Current PhD Students:
Dan Artus: The Epidemiology of Truth: A Multi-Method Ethnography of HPV Vaccine in Ireland
Joseph Cook: Making through Measuring: An Ethnography of Workplace Designers
Dave Cook: Digital Nomads: Imagined Worlds of Work
Lydia Gibson: The Science behind the Cockpit Country: Leeward Maroon Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Emilie Glazer: Infrastructures of Water and Care: Examining the
interface of water safety, systems of care and technscience in the
anthropocene
Andrea Lathrop Ligueros: Media Temporality and the Persistence of Polaroid in the Digital Age
Evelina Gambino: Infrastructures, Workers and the Making of the New Silk Road
Julian Clavijo: A tale of Development and Migration: A Multisited Digital Ethnography of the Mobilisations of Afro-Columbians from the Pacific Region to Chile
Luke Taft: Reconfiguring Thermal Comfort in Offices
Yunchang Yang: Photography and Social Life: An ethnography of Chinese Amateur Photography Online
Rosemary Grennan: Indexing Informality: Media Piracy, Cheap copies and Vernacular Reproduction in Mumbai
