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Published Academic Articles
Kirby, P.W. (2023)
Excavating Robotic Waste: Neo Tokyo & Beyond. Contemporary Japanese Studies. (Special format)
Kirby, P.W. (2022)
Radiant Scars: Fallout, Trauma, Ghosts, and (Re)worlding in Fukushima. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography. DOI: 10.1080/04353684.2022.2101136
Kirby, P.W. (2021)
Review of Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan by Eiko Maruko Siniawer. Journal of Japanese Studies Vol. 47, No. 1, Winter issue, pp. 163-167.
Kirby, P.W. (2019)
Slow Burn: Dirt, Radiation, and Power in Fukushima. The Asia-Pacific Journal Vol. 17, Issue 19, No. 3
Kirby, P.W. (2019)
Materialities Meet the Mangle: Electronic Waste Scavenging in Japan and China. Geoforum 102: 48-56.
Kirby, P.W. (2018)
Mangling and Promiscuity: Materialities of Waste Conversion in East Asia. Contemporary Japanese Studies 18(2).
Kirby, P.W. (2018)
Review of The Day the Sun Fell (Aya Domenig). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Kirby, P.W. (2018)
Review of Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement (Simon Avenell). Journal of Japanese Studies, 44(2): 480-485.
Kirby, P.W. (2017)
Anthropological approaches to energy. Chapter 15 in, Kopnina, H. and Ouimet, E. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Environmental Anthropology. Routledge, London and New York. 474 ISBN: 9781138782877.
Kirby, P.W. and Nijman, V. (in progress)
Ethical Trespass: Reclaiming Fieldwork Beyond the Pale. Journal article.
Kirby, P.W. (2016)
Stockpiling 'Resources', Scraping the Gemba: Varieties of Nuclear Waste in Japan. Proceedings of the Japan Society.
Kirby, P.W. (2016)
Avatars des Déchets Nucléaires Japonais. (Japanese Nuclear Waste Avatars.) Techniques et Culture 65-66: 356-369.
Kirby, P.W. (2016)
Review of 'Toxic Town: IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks' (Peter C. Little). American Anthropologist, 118(1): 201-202.
Kirby, P.W. and Lora-Wainwright, A. (eds.) (2015)
Peering Through Loopholes, Tracing Conversions: Remapping the Transborder Trade in Electronic Waste. Special journal issue, Area, 47(1): 4-6.
Kirby, P.W. and Lora-Wainwright, A. (2015)
Material Geographies and Marginal Conversions: Exploring the Transborder E-waste Trade. In, Kirby, P.W. and Lora-Wainwright, A. (eds.) Peering Through Loopholes, Tracing Conversions: Remapping the Transborder Trade in Electronic Waste. Special journal issue, Area, 47(1): 4-6.
Kirby, P.W. and Lora-Wainwright, A. (2015)
Exporting Harm, Scavenging Value: Transnational Circuits of E-waste Between Japan, China and Beyond. In, Kirby, P.W. and Lora-Wainwright, A. (eds.) Peering Through Loopholes, Tracing Conversions: Remapping the Transborder Trade in Electronic Waste. Special journal issue, Area, 47(1): 40-47.
Kirby, P.W. (2015)
Review of Gill, Steger, and Slater (eds.) Japan Copes with Calamity. Social Science Japan Journal, 18(1): 131-135.
Kirby, P.W. (2014)
Review of 'Hard Times in the Hometown: A History of Community Survival in Modern Japan' (M. Dusinberre). Journal of Asian Studies, 73(2): 548-549.
Kirby, P.W. (2014)
Review of 'Three-Dimensional Reading: Stories of Time and Space in Japanese Modernist Fiction, 1911-1932' (A. Yiu, ed.). Utopian Studies, 25(1): 252-254.
Kirby, P.W. (2011)
Troubled Natures: Waste, Environment, Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
Kirby, P.W. (ed.) (2009)
Boundless Worlds: An Anthropological Approach to Movement. Oxford and New York: Berghahn.
Kirby, P.W. (2009)
Introduction: Lost in 'Space': An Anthropological Approach to Movement. In, Kirby, P.W. (ed.) Boundless Worlds: An Anthropological Approach to Movement. Oxford and New York: Berghahn.
Kirby, P.W. (2009)
Toxins Without Borders: Interpreting Spaces of Contamination and Suffering. In, Kirby, P.W. (ed.) Boundless Worlds: An Anthropological Approach to Movement. Oxford and New York: Berghahn.
Kirby, P.W. (2009)
Onward Bound: Ethnographic Perspectives on Space, Movement, and Context. In, Kirby, P.W. (ed.) Boundless Worlds: An Anthropological Approach to Movement. Oxford and New York: Berghahn.
Kirby, P.W. (2004)
Getting Engaged: Pollution, Toxic Illness, and Discursive Shift in a Tokyo Community. In, Carrier, J.G. (ed.) Contesting Environments: Local Understanding in a Globalizing World. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira. 97-117.
Kirby, P.W. (2003)
Toxic Pollutants and Japanese Identity in Two Tokyo Communities. In, Casper, M. (ed.) Synthetic Planet: Chemical Politics and the Hazards of Modern Life. London and New York: Routledge. pp. 3-24.
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