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 with Merseburg University of Applied Sciences, Mallory is both investigating citizen energy sharing in East Germany, and also developing a book project provisionally titled "Greenwishing: An Ethnography of Carbon Capture and Storage" regarding the Australian meanings of responsible 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

Merseburg University of Applied Sciences