Ethnographic stews: Decennial reflections

This issue also features a book symposium on Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbin’s Waste siege: The life of infrastructure in Palestine. outstanding analyzes waste both its ontological and phenomenological forms—that is to say, it considers the biological effects human bodies those who are forced live with it, social often scientifically inaccurate interpretations that same people make. In symposium, Rosalind Fredericks, Amahl Bishara, Kali Rubaii, Munira Khayyat question political ethical commitments an ethnography simultaneously deals phenomenological. What hazards thinking siege Palestine as part global condition versus primarily terms Israeli occupation? what senses material transformation (processes decay, oxidation, dispersal, concentration) ways imagined politics scientific? their respectful but critical comments thoughtful reply, contributors this section ensure provocative inescapable problems receive attention they deserve.