David Bond
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621688 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Bond |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Bond |
| SIGNATURE | BOND D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Beverly Hills Cancer Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5134-4469 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 332 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Rise and Fall of a Caribbean Refinery
How can the capitalized history of the climate catastrophe be written without reifying the empire of oil as the only author of consequence left? The economic rise and ecological fall of the imperial refinery on St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands offers critical insight into this question. Bringing together recent scholarship on the petrochemical composition of US empire, the changing climate of history, and the critical need for a starting point …
Public Anthropology in a Pandemic: Advocacy, Ethnography, and Theory
Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment
In Negative Ecologies, David Bond explores the paradoxical relationship between fossil fuels and environmental awareness. He argues that the very industries that have driven ecological degradation have also inadvertently fostered the concept of "the environment" as a distinct and threatened entity. Through a historical analysis of oil spills, air pollution, and other environmental disasters, Bond demonstrates how these events, while devastating, …
What's Wrong with the White Working Class
Does the category of the white working class help us grasp the roots American fascism, or does it distract us from the seeded revolutions at hand? In this piece, I reflect on how easy it has become
A House Divided: Ben Lerner's America
Published to near-universal acclaim, The Topeka School is awash in praise from local bookstores, celebrity tweets and literary critics alike. “A high-water mark in recent American fiction,” as Gart
Homelessness, Mental Health and Suicidality Among LGBTQ Youth Accessing Crisis Services
Oil in the Caribbean: Refineries, Mangroves, and the Negative Ecologies of Crude Oil
This article links up the disastrous history of fossil fuels with the celebrated ecology of mangroves. Building on ethnographic and historical research in Puerto Rico and St. Croix, it outlines the often neglected but quite consequential place of crude oil in the Caribbean. Following the construction of what became the second largest refinery in the world, I describe how the imperial energy networks of the United States first came to the Caribbea…
The Promising Predicament of the Keystone XL Pipeline
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid BondDavid Bond teaches anthropology at Bennington College. From the BP oil spill to the tar sands of Alberta, his research describes how the afterlives of fossil fuels are opening up new political fields for rule and resistance around the conditions of life
Ontological anthropology and the deferral of critique
What does ontological anthropology promise, what does it presume, and how does it contribute to the formatting of life in our present? Drawing from our respective fieldwork on how Indigenous alterity is coenvisioned and how the lively materiality of hydrocarbons is recognized, we develop an ethnographic and theoretical critique of ontological anthropology. This essay, then, provides an empirical counterweight to what the ontological turn celebrat…
What was Lost in the BP Oil Spill
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid BondDavid Bond is a cultural anthropologist specializing in the study of crude oil, the environment, and science. He is a visiting faculty member at Bennington College. His dissertation is an ethnographic account of how scientists and officials scrambled to get a handle on the recent BP oil spill
Governing Disaster: The Political Life of the Environment during the BP Oil Spill
This article presents an embedded analysis of how scientists and federal officials scrambled to get a handle on the deepwater blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. Taking the environment as a compelling ethnographic question, it shows how the oil spill and the environment are not given objects that then collide during a disaster, as is commonly assumed in "disaster studies." Rather, crude oil and the environment are unstable fields instantiated and made…
The Science of Catastrophe: Making Sense of the BP Oil Spill
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid BondDavid Bond is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the New School for Social Research. His research on the expansion of what counts as oil has been funded by Wenner Gren and the National Science Foundation. He is currently writing on the place of nature in a time of crisis. He also teaches anthropology for the Bard Prison Initiative. All photos are courtesy of David Bond
Refractions Off Empire: Untimely Comparisons in Harsh Times
Research Article| May 01 2006 Refractions Off Empire: Untimely Comparisons in Harsh Times Ann Laura Stoler; Ann Laura Stoler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google David Bond David Bond Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (95): 93–107. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2006-95-93 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ann Laura Stoler, D…
The Transmission of Monetary Policy in Canada
A Model for Collaborative Discussion of Social Issues
Ontological anthropology and the deferral of critique
What does ontological anthropology promise, what does it presume, and how does it contribute to the formatting of life in our present? Drawing from our respective fieldwork on how Indigenous alterity is coenvisioned and how the lively materiality of hydrocarbons is recognized, we develop an ethnographic and theoretical critique of ontological anthropology. This essay, then, provides an empirical counterweight to what the ontological turn celebrat…
Governing Disaster: The Political Life of the Environment during the BP Oil Spill
This article presents an embedded analysis of how scientists and federal officials scrambled to get a handle on the deepwater blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. Taking the environment as a compelling ethnographic question, it shows how the oil spill and the environment are not given objects that then collide during a disaster, as is commonly assumed in "disaster studies." Rather, crude oil and the environment are unstable fields instantiated and made…
Refractions Off Empire: Untimely Comparisons in Harsh Times
Research Article| May 01 2006 Refractions Off Empire: Untimely Comparisons in Harsh Times Ann Laura Stoler; Ann Laura Stoler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google David Bond David Bond Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (95): 93–107. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2006-95-93 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ann Laura Stoler, D…
Oil in the Caribbean: Refineries, Mangroves, and the Negative Ecologies of Crude Oil
This article links up the disastrous history of fossil fuels with the celebrated ecology of mangroves. Building on ethnographic and historical research in Puerto Rico and St. Croix, it outlines the often neglected but quite consequential place of crude oil in the Caribbean. Following the construction of what became the second largest refinery in the world, I describe how the imperial energy networks of the United States first came to the Caribbea…
The Science of Catastrophe: Making Sense of the BP Oil Spill
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid BondDavid Bond is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the New School for Social Research. His research on the expansion of what counts as oil has been funded by Wenner Gren and the National Science Foundation. He is currently writing on the place of nature in a time of crisis. He also teaches anthropology for the Bard Prison Initiative. All photos are courtesy of David Bond
What's Wrong with the White Working Class
Does the category of the white working class help us grasp the roots American fascism, or does it distract us from the seeded revolutions at hand? In this piece, I reflect on how easy it has become
The Promising Predicament of the Keystone XL Pipeline
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid BondDavid Bond teaches anthropology at Bennington College. From the BP oil spill to the tar sands of Alberta, his research describes how the afterlives of fossil fuels are opening up new political fields for rule and resistance around the conditions of life
A Model for Collaborative Discussion of Social Issues
The Transmission of Monetary Policy in Canada
Refractions Off Empire: Untimely Comparisons in Harsh Times
Research Article| May 01 2006 Refractions Off Empire: Untimely Comparisons in Harsh Times Ann Laura Stoler; Ann Laura Stoler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google David Bond David Bond Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (95): 93–107. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2006-95-93 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ann Laura Stoler, D…
The Science of Catastrophe: Making Sense of the BP Oil Spill
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid BondDavid Bond is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the New School for Social Research. His research on the expansion of what counts as oil has been funded by Wenner Gren and the National Science Foundation. He is currently writing on the place of nature in a time of crisis. He also teaches anthropology for the Bard Prison Initiative. All photos are courtesy of David Bond
What was Lost in the BP Oil Spill
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid BondDavid Bond is a cultural anthropologist specializing in the study of crude oil, the environment, and science. He is a visiting faculty member at Bennington College. His dissertation is an ethnographic account of how scientists and officials scrambled to get a handle on the recent BP oil spill
Governing Disaster: The Political Life of the Environment during the BP Oil Spill
This article presents an embedded analysis of how scientists and federal officials scrambled to get a handle on the deepwater blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. Taking the environment as a compelling ethnographic question, it shows how the oil spill and the environment are not given objects that then collide during a disaster, as is commonly assumed in "disaster studies." Rather, crude oil and the environment are unstable fields instantiated and made…
Ontological anthropology and the deferral of critique
What does ontological anthropology promise, what does it presume, and how does it contribute to the formatting of life in our present? Drawing from our respective fieldwork on how Indigenous alterity is coenvisioned and how the lively materiality of hydrocarbons is recognized, we develop an ethnographic and theoretical critique of ontological anthropology. This essay, then, provides an empirical counterweight to what the ontological turn celebrat…
The Promising Predicament of the Keystone XL Pipeline
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid BondDavid Bond teaches anthropology at Bennington College. From the BP oil spill to the tar sands of Alberta, his research describes how the afterlives of fossil fuels are opening up new political fields for rule and resistance around the conditions of life
Oil in the Caribbean: Refineries, Mangroves, and the Negative Ecologies of Crude Oil
This article links up the disastrous history of fossil fuels with the celebrated ecology of mangroves. Building on ethnographic and historical research in Puerto Rico and St. Croix, it outlines the often neglected but quite consequential place of crude oil in the Caribbean. Following the construction of what became the second largest refinery in the world, I describe how the imperial energy networks of the United States first came to the Caribbea…
Homelessness, Mental Health and Suicidality Among LGBTQ Youth Accessing Crisis Services
A House Divided: Ben Lerner's America
Published to near-universal acclaim, The Topeka School is awash in praise from local bookstores, celebrity tweets and literary critics alike. “A high-water mark in recent American fiction,” as Gart
What's Wrong with the White Working Class
Does the category of the white working class help us grasp the roots American fascism, or does it distract us from the seeded revolutions at hand? In this piece, I reflect on how easy it has become
Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment
In Negative Ecologies, David Bond explores the paradoxical relationship between fossil fuels and environmental awareness. He argues that the very industries that have driven ecological degradation have also inadvertently fostered the concept of "the environment" as a distinct and threatened entity. Through a historical analysis of oil spills, air pollution, and other environmental disasters, Bond demonstrates how these events, while devastating, …
Public Anthropology in a Pandemic: Advocacy, Ethnography, and Theory
The Rise and Fall of a Caribbean Refinery
How can the capitalized history of the climate catastrophe be written without reifying the empire of oil as the only author of consequence left? The economic rise and ecological fall of the imperial refinery on St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands offers critical insight into this question. Bringing together recent scholarship on the petrochemical composition of US empire, the changing climate of history, and the critical need for a starting point …
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