Penny Harvey is an anthropologist at the University of Manchester. Her long-term ethnographic work on infrastructures has currently settled on the unbuilding of the UK’s nuclear power stations. Recent publications include Future Commons: Bioethical Regimes and Commoning Practices (2024) a special issue of Social Analysis (volume 68, issue 2) co-edited with Marianne Lien and Jon Rasmus Nyquist; and "Welcome to the End of the World: Nuclear Wastes and Other Material Legacies of the Modern Future" in Casper Bruun Jensen (ed.) Southern Anthropocenes (Routledge; forthcoming 2025).
Posts by This Author
Immobilization
Immobilization plays a central role in unbuilding projects that involve unruly toxicity. In the twenty-first century, unbuilding by design has become commonplac... More
Unbuilding: Introduction
Confronted with the crumbling legacy of twentieth-century infrastructures, the toxic effects of extractive and manufacturing industries, and the shadow futures ... More
Unbuilding
Confronting the entangled legacies of failed infrastructures, toxic materials, and compromised futures, this series opens up the concept of unbuilding as a crit... More
A Response to Alessandro Rippa and Colleagues
Dear Alessandro, Matthäus, Radhika, Agniezka, Carolin, Juliane, Lisa, and Martin, Thank you for the careful and close reading of our book, and for the opportuni... More
