https://www.mattbarlow.me/new-page daily 0.75 2021-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc341733d7f832618363aa2/1580725107294-KG1V189BULB58XX7MCOU/Kochi+from+Sea.jpg New Page Welcome! Thanks for visiting. I am an environmental anthropologist and artist currently completing my PhD in Anthropology at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. My practice is at once philosophical and engaged, experimental and ethnographic, and works toward creative collaboration for building just futures. My honours thesis (completed in 2015) took a deep dive into the world of urban beekeeping, while my PhD engages with environmental activists looking to change the way waste is managed in Kochi, India. I currently live and work on Kaurna country, in South Australia. https://www.mattbarlow.me/friends daily 0.75 2020-12-17 https://www.mattbarlow.me/sounds daily 0.75 2023-10-10 https://www.mattbarlow.me/words daily 0.75 2023-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc341733d7f832618363aa2/f320aa4a-f1f5-44d9-8eb5-c6a9717c3adb/Topologies_of_Air_cover.jpg350x425_Q90.jpg words - BOOK REVIEW: Topologies of Air Book review of Topologies of Air published in Third Text. Topologies of Air is a collection of essays about and excerpts from Shona Illingworth’s artistic practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc341733d7f832618363aa2/b7e7e4cf-0413-4c1b-8835-f91827dbf0a2/Subhash+Bose+Park.JPG words - Waste and its masquerades A short research article published open access in Anthropology Today. Through comparing waste management in two public parks in Kochi, India, this article suggests that rather than being marginal, waste and its management is vital to the production, experiences, and understandings of urban natures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc341733d7f832618363aa2/546599b8-3db1-4013-b710-ece25f00a056/IMG_20190403_080444.jpg words - Burning Wet Waste Burning Wet Waste https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc341733d7f832618363aa2/d6b484a9-ce13-4aff-9cb7-9346a17589c2/17.jpg words - Floating Ground Floating Ground: A research article about Kochi’s wetness, and how being enveloped in wetness changes how urban development through infrastructures can happen in this tropical, estuarine city. Published in open access island studies journal Shima. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc341733d7f832618363aa2/1613539129462-GHM0OR70TKAQ3OTEFXXF/IMG_6291.jpg words - Slow infrastructures in times of crisis A co-authored with my PhD supervisor Dr. Georgina Drew and published in Postcolonial Studies, this journal article situates composting and rainwater harvesting as ‘slow infrastructures’ that hold promise of unworking the speed and convenience of colonial, extractive, fast infrastructures in Kochi, India. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc341733d7f832618363aa2/1593677474845-6D78CX62WZM54XXOF6F7/tp.jpg words - On the social nature of toilet paper An essay written for Platypus, the blog for the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology & Computing, which aims to shed some light on the hoarding of toilet paper during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc341733d7f832618363aa2/1613556323624-DZ82K3WDL5J9YM1RG5FM/20_GUERRILLA%2BGIRLS.jpg words - Anonymity, Silence and Insurrection A two-part reflection on some of the politics and artwork I experienced at the 2018 edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, written for Adelaide-based art magazine, fine print. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc341733d7f832618363aa2/1573082418169-NWK4WSSEZQGZGJBY1HQK/000011.JPG words - Natura Urbana A reflection on the Indian premiere screening of Matthew Gandy’s acclaimed documentary ‘Natura Urbana: The Brachen of Berlin’ written for multimodal ethnographic journal Entanglements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc341733d7f832618363aa2/1573082650525-6CYMIJVI0SOL6XIU6RG6/Bycroft+%282017%29+Soft+Bodies.jpg words - Madison Bycrofts Mollusc Worlds An essay written for Artlink, on artist Madison Bycroft’s experimental and multi-species artistic practices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc341733d7f832618363aa2/1613532999648-OHA3WFOP81NDY3JD1KWQ/Enchanted+Beeings+pic.jpg words - Enchanted Bee-ings A research essay built out of my honours thesis which explores urban beekeeping as an enchanting relationship between humans and apis mellifera (European honeybee) that begins to break down urban-rural, wild-domestic, and nature-culture binaries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc341733d7f832618363aa2/1573082751059-PVHUPZM0V2SQL22HK082/flow.jpg words - Decolonising Sewage Infrastructure An essay on the colonial heritage of Darjeeling’s water and waste problems written for The Conversation, highlighting how sometimes it’s best to keep those two things separate. https://www.mattbarlow.me/contact daily 0.75 2020-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc341733d7f832618363aa2/1580729348660-6X1WDN4WQAQ3WGG0C1N2/BarlowRedWall.JPG contact https://www.mattbarlow.me/podcast daily 0.75 2020-12-02 https://www.mattbarlow.me/images daily 0.75 2023-10-10 https://www.mattbarlow.me/pagecv daily 0.75 2020-12-02 https://www.mattbarlow.me/home daily 1.0 2021-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc341733d7f832618363aa2/1613522532895-U662IW6XDXSVHLOX6ZLP/Dog+trash+alleppey+%5Bcropped%5D.jpg home https://www.mattbarlow.me/about daily 0.75 2026-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc341733d7f832618363aa2/e58bfd4b-d878-459f-9cae-6fcfd336bf89/PXL_20260618_151922585.jpg about https://www.mattbarlow.me/collectives daily 0.75 2022-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc341733d7f832618363aa2/7a5ba3f9-d34e-49a6-8492-13ef7a5f4b42/TopEndSTS_RC+Zine_FC.jpg collectives - TopEndSTS A collective of researchers and artists who come together to read, share stories, and create between the worlds of Science and Technology Studies, artistic and place-based research, and more-than-human entanglements in Northern Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc341733d7f832618363aa2/50b93d0d-5b8d-4e97-b5d7-4dba88a6b512/CinA+logo1+%28MB%29.jpg collectives - Conversations in Anthropology A podcast about life, the universe, and anthropology, hosted by Timothy Neale, David Boarder Giles, Cameo Dalley, Mythily Meher, and myself. Each episode brings a new conversation with an anthropologist (or many anthropologists). Some popular episodes I have produced include conversations with Radhika Govindrajan, Hugh Raffles, and our first ‘tea’ themed episode with Sarah Besky and Mythri Jegathesan. https://www.mattbarlow.me/about-native daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/4f6798afe4b097349e410d49/1383938640685-MBER4AA32SAAT8CU9NL7/30.png About