Asthma was one of the primary claimed harms as a result of formaldehyde exposure in FEMA trailers, and New Orleans had a unique history of asthma epidemics. At the same time, I was in conversation with Kim and Mike Fortun and their collaborators about The Asthma Files. A friend was working on the massive lawsuit related to formaldehyde exposure endured by Gulf Coast residents in trailers supplied by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The project started in post-Katrina New Orleans, where I knew I wanted to work on chronic health issues. Nicholas Shapiro: Like many doctoral projects, I came to the topic by a combination of happenstance, hunches, and longstanding interests. Julia Sizek and Ned Dostaler: How did you become interested in the topic of domestic formaldehyde exposure? His work on the chemicals that hold together and corrode late industrial worlds moves between the social sciences, the natural sciences, and the arts. He completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford in 2014. Nicholas Shapiro is a Matter, Materials, and Culture Fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation and an Open Air Fellow at Public Lab.
Sublime chemistry series#
See also the Field Notes series on Studying Unformed Objects.
See also the Curated Collection on Affect, Embodiment, and Sense Perception and the Field Notes series on Affect.Īdditionally, Cultural Anthropology has published articles on scientific practices and ways of knowing, including Kim Fortun’s “ Ethnography in Late Industrialism” (2012) and Carlo Caduff’s “ Ethnographies of Science: Conversation with the Authors and Commentary” (1999). Cultural Anthropology has published numerous articles on the body and embodiment, including Thomas Csordas’ seminal article “ Somatic Modes of Attention” (1993), Kathleen Stewart’s “ Nostalgia-A Polemic” (1998), and Elysée Nouvet’s “ Some Carry On, Some Stay in Bed: (In)convenient Affects and Agency in Neoliberal Nicaragua” (2014).
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