Chris Kortright
Biographic Data
| ID | 155370 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Kortright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Kortright |
| SIGNATURE | KORTRIGHT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Regina |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cracks and Contestation
This article argues that graffiti, through their vitality, illustrate the battle over urban enclosures and the valorization of private property. We focus on abatement—the act of removing graffiti—and by exploring graffiti and abatement we investigate mechanisms and ideologies that draw people into struggles over urban space. In this battle over space, where the state and capital attempt to assert control, a flick of paint serves as a threat as it…
Accompany for Change
On Labor and Creative Transformations in the Experimental Fields of the Philippines
Through an ethnography of the C4 Rice Project's sorghum experiment in the Philippines, this article analyzes particular practices in experimental rice fields and how rice researchers understand their work through specific material practices and engagements with the plants. Returning to the critiques of disembodied science, the author looks at the particular, situated, and subjective labor that researchers do in the fields to argue that these rela…
Cracks and Contestation
This article argues that graffiti, through their vitality, illustrate the battle over urban enclosures and the valorization of private property. We focus on abatement—the act of removing graffiti—and by exploring graffiti and abatement we investigate mechanisms and ideologies that draw people into struggles over urban space. In this battle over space, where the state and capital attempt to assert control, a flick of paint serves as a threat as it…
On Labor and Creative Transformations in the Experimental Fields of the Philippines
Through an ethnography of the C4 Rice Project's sorghum experiment in the Philippines, this article analyzes particular practices in experimental rice fields and how rice researchers understand their work through specific material practices and engagements with the plants. Returning to the critiques of disembodied science, the author looks at the particular, situated, and subjective labor that researchers do in the fields to argue that these rela…
Accompany for Change
Cracks and Contestation
This article argues that graffiti, through their vitality, illustrate the battle over urban enclosures and the valorization of private property. We focus on abatement—the act of removing graffiti—and by exploring graffiti and abatement we investigate mechanisms and ideologies that draw people into struggles over urban space. In this battle over space, where the state and capital attempt to assert control, a flick of paint serves as a threat as it…
Sociology (2 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Ecology (1 work) · Economics (1 work)