Leo Coleman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597263 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leo Coleman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leo |
| FAMILY NAME | Coleman |
| SIGNATURE | COLEMAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pratt Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Parliamentary sovereignty as history
Afterword. Relations, Refusal, Reticulation
The articles in the special issue 'Infrastructural Lives' draw attention to the 'hidden transcript' of infrastructural practices in distinct urban and rural locations in India and Vietnam, showing technical labour, outright refusal, and improvisation across myriad reticulated connections to be elements of an 'infrapolitics' that is practical, responsive, and reckons in various ways with the forces of calculability and control inherent in infrastr…
Malinowski and Mauss Exchanging Knowledge in Interwar Europe
Bronisław Malinowski sought throughout his career to make a scientific contribution to understanding and reforming the international order by making analogies with ‘primitive’ societies. His ethnographic material was important to Marcel Mauss’s internationalist project in The Gift , and can still provide lessons in internationalism. This article examines Malinowski’s ethnographic figuration of ‘the evolution of primitive international law’, and d…
Empire and Post-Empire Telecommunications in India
The Mana of Mass Society by William Mazzarella
Reviewed by: The Mana of Mass Society by William Mazzarella Leo Coleman William Mazzarella, The Mana of Mass Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 224 pp. The deepest questions, perhaps, animating the anthropological imagination are those about the motives that make people act, so consistently and recognizably over time, in all those ways that are, inadequately, called "cultural." What forces give form and objective reality to the …
Building Scotland, Building Solidarity
This article examines the work of Robert Hurd (1905-1963), a Scottish nationalist architect, planner, and admirer of Scottish civic traditions, in order to query and enrich current anthropological approaches to 'material politics' with their focus on material assemblies, infrastructures, and interactions that operate across scales and beyond discourse. Hurd was both an expert and planner and also an 'artisan of nationalism' who sought to restore …
Functionalists Write II
Offered as a sequel of sorts to James Boon's "Functionalists Write, too," this essay examines themes of personhood and aesthetic knowledge in Bronislaw Malinowski's ethnographies, Argonauts of the Western Pacific and Coral Gardens and their Magic. Focused on the texts and their formal procedures, this analysis highlights moments where Malinowski stages his own empathetic identification with Trobriand forms of life. I argue that the representation…
Inside and Outside the House
This article presents a narrative of urban mobility and desire, and critically examines recent ethnographic approaches to subjectivity and "becoming" among rural-urban migrants and in urban life. Lately, ethnographic approaches to urban lives have emphasized mobility over fixity and sought to describe possibility and potential, even in cases of extreme abjection, in part inspired by the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. I examine the strengths of thi…
Regimes of ignorance
Introduction: Regimes of Ignorance: An Introduction Thomas G. Kirsch and Roy Dilley Chapter 1. Mind the Gap: On the Other Side of Knowing Carlo Caduff Chapter 2. Ignoring Native Ignorance: Epidemiological Enclosures of Not-Knowing Plague in Inner Asia Christos Lynteris Chapter 3. Managing Pleasurable Pursuits: Utopic Horizons and the Arts of Ignoring and 'Not Knowing' among Fine Woodworkers Trevor H. J. Marchand Chapter 4. Ignorant Bodies and the…
Corporate Identity inCitizens United
The United States Supreme Court's decision inCitizens United v. Federal Election Commission [2010]from the outset has been a contested, highly politicized case, where judicial interpretation affected more than just election finance law; the majority's opinion explicitly intervened in a wider political struggle over personhood and the boundaries of citizenship. This article moves beyond questions of legal doctrine to highlight the social-theoretic…
Infrastructure and interpretation
The technical infrastructures of modern life-energy, communications, transport-stand at the juncture between material orderings of society and collective meaning. Public utilities are both material and symbolic, and both aspects require maintenance-and anthropological understanding. However, recent anthropological approaches building from science studies have tended to pursue "flat" descriptions that replace mystical or hypostatizing concepts of …
Being Alone Together
The characteristic urban experience of solitude challenges traditional anthropological theories of urban life. This article surveys urban theories that treat solitude primarily as loneliness, anomie, and social disorder. It then challenges these theoretical perspectives with ethnographic cases of gay identities and "being alone together," drawn from fieldwork in New Delhi, India. I develop a heuristic concept of "social solitude" in contrast to "…
Infrastructure and interpretation
The technical infrastructures of modern life-energy, communications, transport-stand at the juncture between material orderings of society and collective meaning. Public utilities are both material and symbolic, and both aspects require maintenance-and anthropological understanding. However, recent anthropological approaches building from science studies have tended to pursue "flat" descriptions that replace mystical or hypostatizing concepts of …
Being Alone Together
The characteristic urban experience of solitude challenges traditional anthropological theories of urban life. This article surveys urban theories that treat solitude primarily as loneliness, anomie, and social disorder. It then challenges these theoretical perspectives with ethnographic cases of gay identities and "being alone together," drawn from fieldwork in New Delhi, India. I develop a heuristic concept of "social solitude" in contrast to "…
Inside and Outside the House
This article presents a narrative of urban mobility and desire, and critically examines recent ethnographic approaches to subjectivity and "becoming" among rural-urban migrants and in urban life. Lately, ethnographic approaches to urban lives have emphasized mobility over fixity and sought to describe possibility and potential, even in cases of extreme abjection, in part inspired by the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. I examine the strengths of thi…
Corporate Identity inCitizens United
The United States Supreme Court's decision inCitizens United v. Federal Election Commission [2010]from the outset has been a contested, highly politicized case, where judicial interpretation affected more than just election finance law; the majority's opinion explicitly intervened in a wider political struggle over personhood and the boundaries of citizenship. This article moves beyond questions of legal doctrine to highlight the social-theoretic…
Functionalists Write II
Offered as a sequel of sorts to James Boon's "Functionalists Write, too," this essay examines themes of personhood and aesthetic knowledge in Bronislaw Malinowski's ethnographies, Argonauts of the Western Pacific and Coral Gardens and their Magic. Focused on the texts and their formal procedures, this analysis highlights moments where Malinowski stages his own empathetic identification with Trobriand forms of life. I argue that the representation…
Being Alone Together
The characteristic urban experience of solitude challenges traditional anthropological theories of urban life. This article surveys urban theories that treat solitude primarily as loneliness, anomie, and social disorder. It then challenges these theoretical perspectives with ethnographic cases of gay identities and "being alone together," drawn from fieldwork in New Delhi, India. I develop a heuristic concept of "social solitude" in contrast to "…
Corporate Identity inCitizens United
The United States Supreme Court's decision inCitizens United v. Federal Election Commission [2010]from the outset has been a contested, highly politicized case, where judicial interpretation affected more than just election finance law; the majority's opinion explicitly intervened in a wider political struggle over personhood and the boundaries of citizenship. This article moves beyond questions of legal doctrine to highlight the social-theoretic…
Infrastructure and interpretation
The technical infrastructures of modern life-energy, communications, transport-stand at the juncture between material orderings of society and collective meaning. Public utilities are both material and symbolic, and both aspects require maintenance-and anthropological understanding. However, recent anthropological approaches building from science studies have tended to pursue "flat" descriptions that replace mystical or hypostatizing concepts of …
Regimes of ignorance
Introduction: Regimes of Ignorance: An Introduction Thomas G. Kirsch and Roy Dilley Chapter 1. Mind the Gap: On the Other Side of Knowing Carlo Caduff Chapter 2. Ignoring Native Ignorance: Epidemiological Enclosures of Not-Knowing Plague in Inner Asia Christos Lynteris Chapter 3. Managing Pleasurable Pursuits: Utopic Horizons and the Arts of Ignoring and 'Not Knowing' among Fine Woodworkers Trevor H. J. Marchand Chapter 4. Ignorant Bodies and the…
Inside and Outside the House
This article presents a narrative of urban mobility and desire, and critically examines recent ethnographic approaches to subjectivity and "becoming" among rural-urban migrants and in urban life. Lately, ethnographic approaches to urban lives have emphasized mobility over fixity and sought to describe possibility and potential, even in cases of extreme abjection, in part inspired by the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. I examine the strengths of thi…
Functionalists Write II
Offered as a sequel of sorts to James Boon's "Functionalists Write, too," this essay examines themes of personhood and aesthetic knowledge in Bronislaw Malinowski's ethnographies, Argonauts of the Western Pacific and Coral Gardens and their Magic. Focused on the texts and their formal procedures, this analysis highlights moments where Malinowski stages his own empathetic identification with Trobriand forms of life. I argue that the representation…
The Mana of Mass Society by William Mazzarella
Reviewed by: The Mana of Mass Society by William Mazzarella Leo Coleman William Mazzarella, The Mana of Mass Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 224 pp. The deepest questions, perhaps, animating the anthropological imagination are those about the motives that make people act, so consistently and recognizably over time, in all those ways that are, inadequately, called "cultural." What forces give form and objective reality to the …
Building Scotland, Building Solidarity
This article examines the work of Robert Hurd (1905-1963), a Scottish nationalist architect, planner, and admirer of Scottish civic traditions, in order to query and enrich current anthropological approaches to 'material politics' with their focus on material assemblies, infrastructures, and interactions that operate across scales and beyond discourse. Hurd was both an expert and planner and also an 'artisan of nationalism' who sought to restore …
Malinowski and Mauss Exchanging Knowledge in Interwar Europe
Bronisław Malinowski sought throughout his career to make a scientific contribution to understanding and reforming the international order by making analogies with ‘primitive’ societies. His ethnographic material was important to Marcel Mauss’s internationalist project in The Gift , and can still provide lessons in internationalism. This article examines Malinowski’s ethnographic figuration of ‘the evolution of primitive international law’, and d…
Empire and Post-Empire Telecommunications in India
Afterword. Relations, Refusal, Reticulation
The articles in the special issue 'Infrastructural Lives' draw attention to the 'hidden transcript' of infrastructural practices in distinct urban and rural locations in India and Vietnam, showing technical labour, outright refusal, and improvisation across myriad reticulated connections to be elements of an 'infrapolitics' that is practical, responsive, and reckons in various ways with the forces of calculability and control inherent in infrastr…
Parliamentary sovereignty as history
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works)