Project
The politics of dress, gender and sexuality in Malawian popular art
This proposed study, which is an extension of my current research, sets out to examine the representations of the chitenje (a wrap-around cloth) in Malawian popular arts, as a site for examining how questions of gender, sexuality, class, and national belonging are negotiated.
Publication
Be a Doll, Blow a Hero
Jain, Løchlann. 2024. Be a Doll, Blow a Hero. Public Culture, 36(2), 231–254. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11158979
Project
Defining Humanity through Water and Sanitation
My project focuses on water and sanitation through the technologies that provide them, as a highly specific material index for abstract sensibilities about what constitutes a proper and dignified human life.
Project
Defining Humanity through Water and Sanitation
My project focuses on water and sanitation through the technologies that provide them, as a highly specific material index for abstract sensibilities about what constitutes a proper and dignified human life.
Project
Gender, Luxury, Waste: New Intersections in Southern Consumption Theory
This project will bring together original, recently completed empirical work examining cultural and media dimensions of three key facets of contemporary consumer culture in the global south, with a view to generating new theory relevant to consumption in the global south.
Publication
The role of play objects and object play in human cognitive evolution and innovation
Riede, Felix, Niels N. Johannsen, Anders Högberg, April Nowell and Lombard, Marlize. 2018. The role of play objects and object play in human...
