Jia Hui Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613809 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jia Hui Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jia Hui |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bayreuth |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0784-5869 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Treasure Hunting in Tanzania as a Chronopolitical Practice
In Morogoro, Tanzania, people regularly embark on treasure hunting expeditions, usually near places or buildings associated with German colonialism. In recounting their attempts to find buried wealth, treasure seekers describe their practice as anticipatory, framed by an anxiety about being “behind” (nyuma) in terms of access to prospecting technologies when compared to foreigners (wageni). Based on ethnographic participation in two treasure hunt…
If not liberation, then what
In 1990, a Cameroonian anthropologist Flavien Ndonko was awarded a grant to conduct research in Germany. He set out to examine the relationships between Germans and their dogs, resulting in one of
African Studies Keyword
Recent disruptions in technology, geopolitics, and the environment have contested what it means to be human, a source of social and political anxiety about the future. Taking inspiration from African and African diaspora writers and scholars, Lee attends to theories of the human that emerge from contemporary experiences on the African continent. The essay provides a countercanon by centering debates about the human and their attendant attempts to…
Bites, Blood, Boundaries
Domestication is a set of processes that requires active reconfigurations of interspecies relations, environments, and technologies. In this view, both ethnographic and historical sources help us track the exact ways that domestication as a practice actively reveals and conceals relations of power among people and between people and other animals. Two pertinent cases-training rats in Tanzania to detect landmines and releasing mosquitoes to deter …
Contested Truths Over Covid-19 in East Africa
The comparative analysis of three "contested truths" around COVID-19 in East Africa demonstrates that knowledge is a product of knotted, uneven, and disputed epistemological practices tied to structures of power. Lee, Meek, and Katumusiime examine: (1) the construction of a pan-African skepticism of COVID-19 that drew on anti-imperialist discourses; (2) social media posts through which Tanzanian digital publics critically evaluated steam inhalati…
"Experiencing a "plenary jolt
In an essay on “common sense,” Geertz (1983) rejects the notion of common sense as the “immediate deliverance of experience” and argues instead that any such concept has to be studied anthropologic
Contested Truths Over Covid-19 in East Africa
The comparative analysis of three "contested truths" around COVID-19 in East Africa demonstrates that knowledge is a product of knotted, uneven, and disputed epistemological practices tied to structures of power. Lee, Meek, and Katumusiime examine: (1) the construction of a pan-African skepticism of COVID-19 that drew on anti-imperialist discourses; (2) social media posts through which Tanzanian digital publics critically evaluated steam inhalati…
"Experiencing a "plenary jolt
In an essay on “common sense,” Geertz (1983) rejects the notion of common sense as the “immediate deliverance of experience” and argues instead that any such concept has to be studied anthropologic
Contested Truths Over Covid-19 in East Africa
The comparative analysis of three "contested truths" around COVID-19 in East Africa demonstrates that knowledge is a product of knotted, uneven, and disputed epistemological practices tied to structures of power. Lee, Meek, and Katumusiime examine: (1) the construction of a pan-African skepticism of COVID-19 that drew on anti-imperialist discourses; (2) social media posts through which Tanzanian digital publics critically evaluated steam inhalati…
Bites, Blood, Boundaries
Domestication is a set of processes that requires active reconfigurations of interspecies relations, environments, and technologies. In this view, both ethnographic and historical sources help us track the exact ways that domestication as a practice actively reveals and conceals relations of power among people and between people and other animals. Two pertinent cases-training rats in Tanzania to detect landmines and releasing mosquitoes to deter …
If not liberation, then what
In 1990, a Cameroonian anthropologist Flavien Ndonko was awarded a grant to conduct research in Germany. He set out to examine the relationships between Germans and their dogs, resulting in one of
African Studies Keyword
Recent disruptions in technology, geopolitics, and the environment have contested what it means to be human, a source of social and political anxiety about the future. Taking inspiration from African and African diaspora writers and scholars, Lee attends to theories of the human that emerge from contemporary experiences on the African continent. The essay provides a countercanon by centering debates about the human and their attendant attempts to…
Treasure Hunting in Tanzania as a Chronopolitical Practice
In Morogoro, Tanzania, people regularly embark on treasure hunting expeditions, usually near places or buildings associated with German colonialism. In recounting their attempts to find buried wealth, treasure seekers describe their practice as anticipatory, framed by an anxiety about being “behind” (nyuma) in terms of access to prospecting technologies when compared to foreigners (wageni). Based on ethnographic participation in two treasure hunt…
Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 works)