CSSH brings Sarah E. Vaughn and Alice Rudge into conversation on “the afterlives of innovation, of care, of collaborations with human and non-human partners, and of failed attempts to know and control” in the geographically distant sites of Guyana, West Africa, and Southeast Asia.
Sean McEnroe recalls his childhood experiences with firearms, and explains how these memories, both troubling and nostalgic, inform his research on magical practices and military technology on colonial frontiers.
Robert P. Weller and Keping Wu describe their collaborative research and writing process, sharing how they came to folding as an analytic framework and envisioning how it might be further applied.