Briel Kobak
Biographic Data
| ID | 144032 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Briel Kobak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Briel |
| FAMILY NAME | Kobak |
| SIGNATURE | KOBAK B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Security
This essay examines discussions over the future of a rural public school through the lens of security, comparing defense-oriented preparations for school shootings with local concerns around declining enrollment and unemployment. It takes stock of the material, financial, and affective resources at stake when the future of rural North America is forecasted through inevitable decline or crisis rather than community investment
The Materiality of Cell Phone Repair
In this piece, we shed light on the materiality of cell phones in the United States by comparing two cell phone repair shops in the Washington, DC metro region, and analyze the different ways in which these repair shops confront customers with the material realities of cell phones through variable yet systematic narratives and practices of repair. We argue that cell phone repair shops provide a distinctive site in which to unpack various articula…
Unseen Connections
Unseen Connections:The Materiality of Cell Phones Joshua A. Bell, Briel Kobak, Joel Kuipers, and Amanda Kemble In his much cited 1986 essay on the "Cultural Biography of Things," Igor Kopytoff proposes a biographical approach to objects and things as a way to understand commodities and commodification. Doing so he remarks, "What would make a biography cultural is not what it deals with, but how and from what perspective. A culturally informed eco…
Beyond text and back again
The ambitions and scope of Beyond Text? Critical Practices and Sensory Anthropology can hardly be contained within the pages of the edited volume or its accompanying audio-visual materials. Not tha
Unseen Connections
Unseen Connections:The Materiality of Cell Phones Joshua A. Bell, Briel Kobak, Joel Kuipers, and Amanda Kemble In his much cited 1986 essay on the "Cultural Biography of Things," Igor Kopytoff proposes a biographical approach to objects and things as a way to understand commodities and commodification. Doing so he remarks, "What would make a biography cultural is not what it deals with, but how and from what perspective. A culturally informed eco…
The Materiality of Cell Phone Repair
In this piece, we shed light on the materiality of cell phones in the United States by comparing two cell phone repair shops in the Washington, DC metro region, and analyze the different ways in which these repair shops confront customers with the material realities of cell phones through variable yet systematic narratives and practices of repair. We argue that cell phone repair shops provide a distinctive site in which to unpack various articula…
Beyond text and back again
The ambitions and scope of Beyond Text? Critical Practices and Sensory Anthropology can hardly be contained within the pages of the edited volume or its accompanying audio-visual materials. Not tha
The Materiality of Cell Phone Repair
In this piece, we shed light on the materiality of cell phones in the United States by comparing two cell phone repair shops in the Washington, DC metro region, and analyze the different ways in which these repair shops confront customers with the material realities of cell phones through variable yet systematic narratives and practices of repair. We argue that cell phone repair shops provide a distinctive site in which to unpack various articula…
Unseen Connections
Unseen Connections:The Materiality of Cell Phones Joshua A. Bell, Briel Kobak, Joel Kuipers, and Amanda Kemble In his much cited 1986 essay on the "Cultural Biography of Things," Igor Kopytoff proposes a biographical approach to objects and things as a way to understand commodities and commodification. Doing so he remarks, "What would make a biography cultural is not what it deals with, but how and from what perspective. A culturally informed eco…
Security
This essay examines discussions over the future of a rural public school through the lens of security, comparing defense-oriented preparations for school shootings with local concerns around declining enrollment and unemployment. It takes stock of the material, financial, and affective resources at stake when the future of rural North America is forecasted through inevitable decline or crisis rather than community investment
Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 work) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Biography (1 work)