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A scholar-led, collectively managed platinum Open Access journal designated to be a forum devoted to exploring the social, cultural and political life of infrastructure. roadsides.net

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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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2027 AAG Annual Meeting - AAG
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If you are interested in joining the in-person AAG session, please submit an abstract of max. 250 words by 1 September 2026 to both Monika monika.streule@ibero.mx and Cerianne cerianne@fordham.edu
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Men’s FIFA World Cup, Olympic Games, and other sports mega-events attract global attention while they are taking place. But what happens in host cities before and after the spectacle? Stadiums are not only venues for mega-events but infrastructures that continue to shape urban life.
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Call for papers Stadiums as infrastructure Interrogating their extractive relations with social, natural, and built environments Panel at the upcoming conference of the American Association of Geographers 2027 Session organizers: Monika Streule (Ibero Uni) Cerianne Robertson (Fordham Uni)
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Working on storage as infrastructure? Submit a proposal for an article, photo essay or other formats! @moritzkasper.bsky.social @saydrandle.bsky.social www.roadsides.net/collections/... #storage #infrastructures #circulation #data #sts
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
In their Introduction to Collection 15 Cryosphere, Anna-Maria Walter and Sophie Elixhauser provide a framework for a fascinating selection of texts and art. #anthropology #sociology #humangeography #sts #infrastructures
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
11. Glacier Tourists: The Origins of an 'Instagram Society' around 1900 www.roadsides.net/articles/8922
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Glacier Tourists: The Origins of an ‘Instagram Society’ around 1900 (Roadsides Collection 15)
"Glacier Tourists: The Origins of an ‘Instagram Society’ around 1900" article by Christian Rohr, , from the Collection No. 15 of the Roadsides Journal titled "Cryosphere".
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
9. Revere or Avoid? Contested Visions of Glacier Reciprocity Tal Shutkin www.roadsides.net/articles/8859 10. Sounding the Sacred: Ecological Spirituality in Gilgit Baltistan www.roadsides.net/articles/8891
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Revere or Avoid? Contested Visions of Glacier Reciprocity (Roadsides Collection 15)
"Revere or Avoid? Contested Visions of Glacier Reciprocity" article by Tal Shutkin, , from the Collection No. 15 of the Roadsides Journal titled "Cryosphere".
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
7. Icehouses in Motion: Knowledge Flows Across the Cryosphere Zhengfeng Wang www.roadsides.net/articles/8881 8. Growing Ice: A Folktale of Resilience and Subversion Karine Gagné www.roadsides.net/articles/8884
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Icehouses in Motion: Knowledge Flows Across the Cryosphere (Roadsides Collection 15)
"Icehouses in Motion: Knowledge Flows Across the Cryosphere" article by Zhengfeng Wang, , from the Collection No. 15 of the Roadsides Journal titled "Cryosphere".
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
5. The Infrastructure of Ice: Mapping the Fedchenko Glacier Tatyana Bakhmetyeva & Steward Weaver www.roadsides.net/articles/8857 6. Fissures: A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Story Annika Bowman www.roadsides.net/articles/8890
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The Infrastructure of Ice: Mapping the Fedchenko Glacier (Roadsides Collection 15)
"The Infrastructure of Ice: Mapping the Fedchenko Glacier" article by Tatyana Bakhmetyeva, Stewart Weaver, from the Collection No. 15 of the Roadsides Journal titled "Cryosphere".
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
4. Glacial Till Elizabeth H. Case, Andrea Hoffman, Hannah P. Mode & Tyler Rai www.roadsides.net/articles/8959
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Glacial Till (Roadsides Collection 15)
"Glacial Till" article by Elizabeth H. Case, Andrew Hoffman, Hannah P. Mode from the Collection No. 15 of the Roadsides Journal titled "Cryosphere".
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Introduction by the editors Anna-Maria Walter & Sophie Elixhauser www.roadsides.net/articles/9671 dis/comfort of Ice Katie Ione Craney www.roadsides.net/articles/8861 Dead Glacier Infrastructures Nicole Schaub & Mark Carey www.roadsides.net/articles/8892
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Cryosphere: An Introduction (Roadsides Collection 15)
"Cryosphere: An Introduction" article by Anna-Maria Walter, Sophie Elixhauser, from the Collection No. 15 of the Roadsides Journal titled "Cryosphere".
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Roadsides 15 :: Cryosphere is out This collection conceptualizes the changing cryosphere as infrastructure. It foregrounds snow and ice as more-than-physical assemblages utilized and co-created by humans and non-human worlds. #infrastructures #sts #anthropology www.roadsides.net/collections/...
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Collection No. 15 "Cryosphere" (Roadsides Journal)
Roadsides' Collection No. 15 "Cryosphere" edited by Sophie Elixhauser, Anna-Maria Walter published in Spring 2026. This collection conceptualizes the changing cryosphere as infrastructure that unfolds...
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Across mountain ranges and polar regions, historical, ethnographic and artistic contributions call for epistemological reorientation: rather than a frozen backdrop, the cryosphere emerges as sensitive, dynamic infrastructure. Edited by Sophie Elixhauser & Anna Maria Walter Roadsides 15
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Our collection Cryosphere is coming! This collection conceptualizes the changing cryosphere as infrastructure that unfolds through non-built yet relational environmental formations. It foregrounds snow and ice as more-than-physical assemblages utilised and co-created by humans and non-human worlds.
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Visit our Roadsides website: www.roadsides.net Or go directly to Collection 14. www.roadsides.net/collections/...
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Roadsides Journal
A metaphorical proxy for all sorts of engagements arising alongside infrastructure as they are imagined, contested, constructed, and maintained, and as they fall into disrepair. The journal offers spa...
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Discussion questions about plantations and the relations they establish or inhibit Roads, marketplaces and plantations Tuomas Tammisto www.roadsides.net/articles/8063
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Roads, Marketplaces and Plantations (Roadsides Collection 14)
"Roads, Marketplaces and Plantations" article by Tuomas Tammisto, , from the Collection No. 14 of the Roadsides Journal titled "Foodways".
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
A research exercise for students to investigate an epistemic rift regarding food and nutrition The empty granary of Ishkoman Fizza Batool www.roadsides.net/articles/8243
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The Empty Granary of Ishkoman (Roadsides Collection 14)
"The Empty Granary of Ishkoman" article by Fizza Batool, , from the Collection No. 14 of the Roadsides Journal titled "Foodways".
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Roadsides :: Infrastructure teaching tools Do you teach about infrastructures in anthropology, sociology or humanities? Check out our new Teaching Tools. Starting with Collection 14, we include a variety of research exercises, discussion questions and activities in some articles. Examples:
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Claudia Eggart @ceggart.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I'm excited to announce a cfa for Roadsides' fall issue on 'Markets as Infrastructures.' Together with Hasan H. Karrar we edit this issue and we look forward to receiving abstracts from far and wide, incl. #economicanthropology #politicaleconomy #decolonialstudies www.roadsides.net/collections/...
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Call for papers :: Markets as infrastructures We are particularly interested in contributions that connect long-term, in-depth or participatory insights on market forms and practices to theoretical approaches. shorturl.at/SboBI #markets #anthropology #economy #decoloniality #politicaleconomy
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
We are happy to announce that gradually all our articles will be available in html on our website, starting with our latest issue on food: www.roadsides.net/articles/8888
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Foodways: An Introduction (Roadsides Journal Article)
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Inditian Latifa demonstrates how stories of lost marsh rice in Indonesia reveal how crops, floods, and memory expand the meaning of hydraulic infrastructure. Read it here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8250
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Carlotta Molfese explores the relationship between infrastructures and autonomy in agroecological food production by attending to mulch and its more-than-human (de)composition. Read it here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8176
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
In their contribution to our latest issue, @drvanessalamb.bsky.social and @zalifung.bsky.social show how food preparation by Karen women for anti-dam gatherings is a form of solidarity infrastructure in the Salween River Basin at the Thai–Myanmar border. www.roadsides.net/articles/8234
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Joanna Radin and Mark Stern consider the affective and material ways that community cookbooks once helped weave kin-relations and what has taken their place amidst yearning for collective cathecting today. Read it in our latest issue "Foodways:" www.roadsides.net/articles/8249
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
@tutam.bsky.social examines plantation infrastructures designed to produce cheap food and fuel, and how they intersect with locally established food infrastructures in Papua New Guinea. In our latest issue on Foodways. Read his photo essay here: www.roadsides.net/articles/8063
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
In their contribution to our new issue on Foodways, @kalzangmarpo.bsky.social & @mirzalibra10.bsky.social examine questions of highland mobility, infrastructures, state-making and bordering connected to ‘Chhurpi’, the Himalayan cheese. www.roadsides.net/articles/8240
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
@china-geographies.bsky.social examines the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia and what they tell us about the global production of food. www.roadsides.net/articles/8236
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Sarah Rogers @china-geographies.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Really pleased to be part of the new issue of @roadsides.bsky.social Short piece on the infrastructures that move pesticides from China to Australia www.roadsides.net/articles/8236
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Pesticide Infrastructures: From China to Australia (Roadsides Journal Article)
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
In his contribution to "Foodways," André Thiemann studies the infrastructures of value that shape the world market of raspberries by focusing on projects in Arilje, Serbia, to valorize its “taste of place”. www.roadsides.net/articles/8580
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Zali Fung @zalifung.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
New paper with @drvanessalamb.bsky.social in @roadsides.bsky.social We show how food preparation, primarily undertaken by older Karen women, is key to contesting long-proposed hydropower dams & water diversions in the Salween River Basin Thanks editors @mattrest.bsky.social & Dolly Kikon
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Tina Harris @tinahonjo.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
The new @roadsides.bsky.social collection is out, on Foodways! An excellent issue, edited by the fab @dollykikon.bsky.social and @mattrest.bsky.social www.roadsides.net/collections/...
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Meghal Perera explores how vendors reject and repurpose cold chain infrastructure in a fish market in Colombo, to suit their own understandings of freshness. www.roadsides.net/articles/8248
Fish at the market
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Tuomas Tammisto @tutam.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The new issue of @roadsides.bsky.social is out! Titled "Foodways", the articles of the issue discuss the various intersections of #infrastructure and food. Edited by @mattrest.bsky.social & Dolly Kikon. Roadsides is an excellent, non-profit and community managed #OpenAcces journal! #anthropology
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Collection No. 14
Roadsides' Collection No. 14
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
In her photo essay, @fizza7.bsky.social recounts how the Karakoram Highway traded food sovereignty for dependency, how the road built to connect them dismantled the world for the people of Ishkoman. www.roadsides.net/articles/8243
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
In their Introduction to our new issue titled „Foodways“ @mattrest.bsky.social and Dolly Kikon ask: „how do foodways and their socio-cultural-cosmological scaffoldings and infrastructure condition each other?“ www.roadsides.net/articles/8888
“What is this - a refinery?” “Yes, for milk”
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
You can find our current issue on food and infrastructure at our brand new website roadsides.net
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Roadsides Journal
A metaphorical proxy for all sorts of engagements arising alongside infrastructure as they are imagined, contested, constructed, and maintained, and as they fall into disrepair. The journal offers spa...
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Fizza Batool recounts how the Karakoram Highway traded food sovereignty for dependency and how the road built to connect the people of Ishkoman instead dismantled the world for them.
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Working on fresh approaches to infrastructures? If you can imagine editing a special issue with us, send us a proposal! Deadline for proposals: 15 November 2025 Send proposals to our editors-in-chief: Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi agnieszka.joniak@unifr.ch Tina Harris C.H.Harris@uva.nl
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Guide for Editors | Roadsides
Dear Editors, Thank you for considering editing a guest collection in Roadsides. The following Guide for Editors will help you understand the application and publication process. The Editorial Board t...
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Roadsides is Open Access, check our manifesto: “the humanities and social sciences are too often disengaged from the public ... we want to reclaim the project of Open Access and key it to a different register of shared creativity and responsibility.” commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/y0xy565k...
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Labour of Love: An Open Access Manifesto for Freedom, Integrity, and Creativity in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences
With a number of recommendations toward the commonification of open access
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Tina Harris @tinahonjo.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
CFP for the new @roadsides.bsky.social issue, CRYOSPHERE. roadsides.net/call-for-pap... "Snow and ice have long served as vital resources for human and non-human inhabitants of this planet. Today the world is experiencing immense changes to the cryosphere."
Journal cover image depicting men using axes to cut blocks of natural ice on the side of a mountain
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
In "Ammonia Synthesis: Entering a Ubiquitous Chemical Technosphere" Benjamin Steininger rethinks ammonia synthesis and follows its specific associated toxicities, putting particular emphasis on the ‘openness’ of industrial infrastructure. roadsides.net/collection-n...
Microlandscape on the Haber–Bosch catalyst surface, a high-pressure reactor, World War I battlefield, algal bloom in Baltic Sea, war news on an ammonia pipeline in Ukraine. Collage: Author, 2024.
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
In her article "Toxic Recurrences" Kaitlyn Rabach demonstrates that crumbling homes and toxic mould go unacknowledged in County Donegal, Ireland, as residents fear speaking out will devalue their property. roadsides.net/collection-n...
Iron sulfides like pyrite have been identified as the main culprits in Donegal’s defective concrete. Due to their presence, many homes are crumbling. Photo: Angela Tourish, 2024
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
In "Repairing Toxic: Deferred Maintenance in Schools" Margaret Tebbe and Fred Ariel Hernandez suggest how late-industrial ethnography can make visible some of the toxic hazards in Los Angeles school buildings. roadsides.net/collection-n...
Pellets being tracked o"
the field at Azusa High
School. These pellets can
travel across campus and
even to students’ homes.
Photo: Fred Ariel
Hernandez, 2023
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
In "Silica Trails: Turned Soils, Dusty Lungs" Juliana Ramos Boldrin illustrates how silica exposure can damage health, but mitigating the harm could jeopardise Brazil’s dominance in silica export. roadsides.net/collection-n...
SIlica dust. Photo: Tuaindeed / Getty Images.
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
In "Toxic Struggles: Asbestos in Argentina’s Subway" Jorge Afarian reveals how Buenos Aires metro workers face illegal asbestos exposure and uncovers a troubling hierarchy between acceptable and unacceptable health risks. roadsides.net/collection-n...
Subway worker wearing a protective mask, Buenos Aires. Photo: Jorge Afarian, 2019.
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Gulzat Baialieva considers how 80 tons of abandoned toxic waste in Kyrgyzstan trigger discussions on the toxic aftermath of neoliberal reforms and state neglect in her article "Seeking Environmental Justice Amid Post-Industrial Ruins." roadsides.net/collection-n...
An abandoned plant in Mailuu-Suu, Kyrgyzstan. Photo: Nikolaos Olma, 2021.
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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
In his article "Wounded Landscape: Ambivalence and Toxic Extractivism in Indonesia" Fahmi R. Fahroji explores how a coal company’s seizure of rubber plantations in Indonesia has pushed farmers into toxic, low-paying jobs in the mining industry. roadsides.net/collection-n...
Wakar (‘minewatcher’) tent and excavator in the dirt road. Photo: Fahmi Fahroji, 2023.
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