Mallory James is an anthropologist whose work centers upon engineering studies, political economy, and the social studies of energy. Her investigations have bridged an interest in knowledge-workers’ inner experiences of appropriate practice with a concern for their historically, nationally, financially, and institutionally specific circumstances. Currently affiliated as a Visiting Scientist at the Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Mallory is developing a book project provisionally titled "Greenwishing: An Ethnography of Carbon Capture and Storage" regarding the meanings of responsible engineering attributed to Australian carbon and energy engineering. In previous work at the Technical University of Munich, she investigated the practices by which scholars construct and demonstrate scientific “excellence” while applying for European research funding, thereby exploring how institutionalized funding conditions shape scientific subjectivity and practical reasoning.

Location

81245

Disciplines

• Anthropology

Affiliation

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich