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/words daily 0.75 2023-10-10 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/v1/5dc341733d7f832618363aa2/1613532999648-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/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/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/v1/5dc341733d7f832618363aa2/1573082751059-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://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/v1/5dc341733d7f832618363aa2/1613539129462-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/v1/5dc341733d7f832618363aa2/1573082418169-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://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/contact daily 0.75 2020-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc341733d7f832618363aa2/1580729348660-6X1WDN4WQAQ3WGG0C1N2/BarlowRedWall.JPG contact 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/podcast 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 2024-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc341733d7f832618363aa2/1da08c80-f90d-461c-ae2b-86f6239cf1a6/000037740012+%28small%29.jpg about I am an environmental anthropologist currently based in Philadelphia, PA. In 2023, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of St Andrews, and I was recently appointed as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) at the University of Pennsylvania. My research explores the relationship between monsoonal environments and postcolonial infrastructures in Kochi, India. At Penn, I am working on my first book project while also assisting Nikhil Anand with his project "Stories of Climate Action: Negotiating Planning in Mumbai's Wetscapes". Alongside these projects, I am also passionate about creative and non-traditional methods of research, communication, learning, such as field recordings, podcasts, zines, and place-based workshops. I am available for consultations on ethnographic writing, art writing, qualitative research, creative research, broadcasting, and project management. Please don’t hesitate to reach me at: mattpbarlow@gmail.com You can also find me on various socials with the handle: @materialbarlow https://www.mattbarlow.me/collectives daily 0.75 2022-06-05 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://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://www.mattbarlow.me/about-native daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/4f6798afe4b097349e410d49/1383938640685-MBER4AA32SAAT8CU9NL7/30.png About