Catherine Fennell is an urban anthropologist whose research and writing focuses on late industrial life in North America. She has special interests in housing and how people live and work with its social and material aftermaths.
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Deconstruction
Abandoned homes in late industrial urban America excite all manner of explanations about who and what has gone wrong—wrong enough to leave so many rowhouses, to... More
Householding
Each contribution to this session pokes at a particular vision of the household that continues to dominate American politics and letters. That vision paints the... More
Emplacement
When approached as a thing that facilitates relations between other things, an infrastructure need not be limited to the roads, rails, wires, and pipes typicall... More