Joshua O. Reno is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University. His research and writing has focused on different forms of waste: municipal, mammalian, and martial. He has conducted ethnographic research on both sides of the Atlantic, but especially the United States and United Kingdom, on waste labor, markets, regulations and activism, exploring alternative and contested uses and representations of discard. More recently, his research has turned to disability, the body, and alternative semiotics. He is the author of Waste Away: Working and Living with a North American Landfill (2016) and the forthcoming book, Military Waste: The Unexpected Consequences of Permanent War Readiness.
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In Search of Crip Time
We learned, early on from our time in England, that when you spoke with members of the National Health Service (NHS) you were going to hear “no” the first time,... More
Phantasmographic Possibilities
There are elements of Robert Desjarlais’s provocative book, The Blind Man, that anthropologists will find unorthodox, if not unseemly, most obviously his decisi... More
What is the Midwest Thinking? U.S. Regionalism and Nationalism
The Midwest region has become a bellwether of American national politics. Media discourses often presume that Midwestern attributes or plights manifest themselv... More
