Phillip Drake
Biographic Data
| ID | 642013 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phillip Drake |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phillip |
| FAMILY NAME | Drake |
| SIGNATURE | DRAKE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8542-5662 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Zoonotic Affinities
Zoonotic AffinitiesWoman-Dog Sickness and Multispecies Becoming in Elena Ferrante’s Days of Abandonment and Virginia Woolf ’s Flush Phillip Drake (bio) Elena Ferrante’s depictions of women, family, and gender politics appropriately have received considerable attention from the media and her fervent readers. In her second novel, the devastating Days of Abandonment,1 these issues are inflected by a fraught woman-dog relationship. After her husband …
Encounters with the Most Animal Other
Since 2008, rabies has killed several thousand semi-feral dogs in Bali, but hundreds of thousands of dogs have been killed by government officials to control the disease, which continues to spread. This article tracks this rabies outbreak and the efforts to contain the disease, noting frictions that emerged between officials and animal welfare activists. The former depict the dogs as a nuisance that should be exterminated, while the latter showca…
Indonesia’s Accidental Island
By presenting stakeholders’ competing representations of an extraordinary geological formation, an island with a surface that is comprised of runoff from an infamous mud volcano in East Java, this article explores the communicative openings and closures that arise during an environmental disaster. A particular concern is attuning communicative practices to the diverse human and nonhuman actors that not only produce disasters but also shape our un…
The cut and thrust of industrial relations” – bullying by another name
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer a feminography, that is a “narration of a female self in a feminist age” (Abrams, 2017) by presenting a conceptual analysis, derived from experience, of email providing a form of discourse – that the author calls finger-speak – through which unexamined gender positioning caricatures a person’s identity. In so doing, the paper provides an illustrative case of a female manager being positioned through e…
Emergent injustices
Since first erupting in 2006, the Lapindo mud volcano has become the most controversial and expensive disaster in Indonesian history. Despite its unique geophysical features, most consider the mudflow a social disaster, as scientific conflicts about the cause of the disaster have spun into legal disputes over accountability and justice. Interestingly, questions about justice—from establishing what justice means to disaster victims to implementing…
Eben Kirksey, Emergent Ecologies

Indonesia and the Politics of Disaster
Named after Lapindo Brantas, a gas exploration company that was drilling at the eruption site, the Lapindo mudflow initially burst in 2006 and continues to flow today, becoming the most expensive disaster in Indonesia’s history. Using this environmental incident in Indonesia as a case study, this book explores representations of disaster in scientific reports, public discourse, literature, and other cultural forms, observing the impact of these p…
Multiple visions of Indonesia's mud volcano
The Lapindo mudflow is one of the most controversial disasters in Indonesian history. Despite its unique biophysical features, most consider the mudflow a social disaster as scientific conflicts about its main trigger have evolved into legal disputes over accountability and rights. This paper examines this 'trigger debate', the stakes of scientific contention and the broader social and natural dynamics that shape the terms of this debate. A Latou…
Becoming known through email
This project explores women and educational leadership from the perspective of an individual who moved from the UK to Australia in order to take up the position of Dean of an education grouping in a university. Emails sent by the Dean to the group are analysed after nine months in post and categorised according to the requirements of the position description. The large volume of over 6000 emails in itself was such as to deny the possibilities of …
Marxism and the Nonhuman Turn
With the emergence of the so-called “nonhuman” turn in the arts, humanities, and social sciences in recent decades, various intriguing and frequently dazzling articulations of Marxian terminologies and insights have arisen. While these intersections with Marxism are occasionally inharmonious, such friction can recast lines of inquiry both within and outside Marxian traditions, enhancing analytical tools and altering senses of purpose. This articl…
Under the Mud Volcano
This article explores the aesthetic and rhetorical operations at work in selected written testimonies by victims of the Lapindo mudflow in East Java, Indonesia, focusing on the ways these texts articulate with contentious political movements that seek to bring forth justice and stability to those impacted by the disaster. Despite the formal conventions and political commitments that complicate the communication of trauma through testimony, I argu…
The Goat that Couldn’t Stop the Mud Volcano
This essay explores the relationship between animal sacrifice, the production of human subjectivity, and expressions of power, using a newspaper photograph of a goat being thrown into a famous mud volcano in Indonesia as a point of departure. This devastating mud volcano, widely known as the “Lapindo” mudflow, began in 2006 and continues to release mud in 2012. I also use this disaster as a case study to observe the ways violence against nonhuman…
Multiple visions of Indonesia's mud volcano
The Lapindo mudflow is one of the most controversial disasters in Indonesian history. Despite its unique biophysical features, most consider the mudflow a social disaster as scientific conflicts about its main trigger have evolved into legal disputes over accountability and rights. This paper examines this 'trigger debate', the stakes of scientific contention and the broader social and natural dynamics that shape the terms of this debate. A Latou…
Becoming known through email
This project explores women and educational leadership from the perspective of an individual who moved from the UK to Australia in order to take up the position of Dean of an education grouping in a university. Emails sent by the Dean to the group are analysed after nine months in post and categorised according to the requirements of the position description. The large volume of over 6000 emails in itself was such as to deny the possibilities of …
Encounters with the Most Animal Other
Since 2008, rabies has killed several thousand semi-feral dogs in Bali, but hundreds of thousands of dogs have been killed by government officials to control the disease, which continues to spread. This article tracks this rabies outbreak and the efforts to contain the disease, noting frictions that emerged between officials and animal welfare activists. The former depict the dogs as a nuisance that should be exterminated, while the latter showca…
The cut and thrust of industrial relations” – bullying by another name
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer a feminography, that is a “narration of a female self in a feminist age” (Abrams, 2017) by presenting a conceptual analysis, derived from experience, of email providing a form of discourse – that the author calls finger-speak – through which unexamined gender positioning caricatures a person’s identity. In so doing, the paper provides an illustrative case of a female manager being positioned through e…
Marxism and the Nonhuman Turn
With the emergence of the so-called “nonhuman” turn in the arts, humanities, and social sciences in recent decades, various intriguing and frequently dazzling articulations of Marxian terminologies and insights have arisen. While these intersections with Marxism are occasionally inharmonious, such friction can recast lines of inquiry both within and outside Marxian traditions, enhancing analytical tools and altering senses of purpose. This articl…
The Goat that Couldn’t Stop the Mud Volcano
This essay explores the relationship between animal sacrifice, the production of human subjectivity, and expressions of power, using a newspaper photograph of a goat being thrown into a famous mud volcano in Indonesia as a point of departure. This devastating mud volcano, widely known as the “Lapindo” mudflow, began in 2006 and continues to release mud in 2012. I also use this disaster as a case study to observe the ways violence against nonhuman…
The Goat that Couldn’t Stop the Mud Volcano
This essay explores the relationship between animal sacrifice, the production of human subjectivity, and expressions of power, using a newspaper photograph of a goat being thrown into a famous mud volcano in Indonesia as a point of departure. This devastating mud volcano, widely known as the “Lapindo” mudflow, began in 2006 and continues to release mud in 2012. I also use this disaster as a case study to observe the ways violence against nonhuman…
Under the Mud Volcano
This article explores the aesthetic and rhetorical operations at work in selected written testimonies by victims of the Lapindo mudflow in East Java, Indonesia, focusing on the ways these texts articulate with contentious political movements that seek to bring forth justice and stability to those impacted by the disaster. Despite the formal conventions and political commitments that complicate the communication of trauma through testimony, I argu…
Becoming known through email
This project explores women and educational leadership from the perspective of an individual who moved from the UK to Australia in order to take up the position of Dean of an education grouping in a university. Emails sent by the Dean to the group are analysed after nine months in post and categorised according to the requirements of the position description. The large volume of over 6000 emails in itself was such as to deny the possibilities of …
Marxism and the Nonhuman Turn
With the emergence of the so-called “nonhuman” turn in the arts, humanities, and social sciences in recent decades, various intriguing and frequently dazzling articulations of Marxian terminologies and insights have arisen. While these intersections with Marxism are occasionally inharmonious, such friction can recast lines of inquiry both within and outside Marxian traditions, enhancing analytical tools and altering senses of purpose. This articl…
Indonesia and the Politics of Disaster
Named after Lapindo Brantas, a gas exploration company that was drilling at the eruption site, the Lapindo mudflow initially burst in 2006 and continues to flow today, becoming the most expensive disaster in Indonesia’s history. Using this environmental incident in Indonesia as a case study, this book explores representations of disaster in scientific reports, public discourse, literature, and other cultural forms, observing the impact of these p…
Multiple visions of Indonesia's mud volcano
The Lapindo mudflow is one of the most controversial disasters in Indonesian history. Despite its unique biophysical features, most consider the mudflow a social disaster as scientific conflicts about its main trigger have evolved into legal disputes over accountability and rights. This paper examines this 'trigger debate', the stakes of scientific contention and the broader social and natural dynamics that shape the terms of this debate. A Latou…
Eben Kirksey, Emergent Ecologies

Indonesia’s Accidental Island
By presenting stakeholders’ competing representations of an extraordinary geological formation, an island with a surface that is comprised of runoff from an infamous mud volcano in East Java, this article explores the communicative openings and closures that arise during an environmental disaster. A particular concern is attuning communicative practices to the diverse human and nonhuman actors that not only produce disasters but also shape our un…
The cut and thrust of industrial relations” – bullying by another name
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer a feminography, that is a “narration of a female self in a feminist age” (Abrams, 2017) by presenting a conceptual analysis, derived from experience, of email providing a form of discourse – that the author calls finger-speak – through which unexamined gender positioning caricatures a person’s identity. In so doing, the paper provides an illustrative case of a female manager being positioned through e…
Emergent injustices
Since first erupting in 2006, the Lapindo mud volcano has become the most controversial and expensive disaster in Indonesian history. Despite its unique geophysical features, most consider the mudflow a social disaster, as scientific conflicts about the cause of the disaster have spun into legal disputes over accountability and justice. Interestingly, questions about justice—from establishing what justice means to disaster victims to implementing…
Encounters with the Most Animal Other
Since 2008, rabies has killed several thousand semi-feral dogs in Bali, but hundreds of thousands of dogs have been killed by government officials to control the disease, which continues to spread. This article tracks this rabies outbreak and the efforts to contain the disease, noting frictions that emerged between officials and animal welfare activists. The former depict the dogs as a nuisance that should be exterminated, while the latter showca…
Zoonotic Affinities
Zoonotic AffinitiesWoman-Dog Sickness and Multispecies Becoming in Elena Ferrante’s Days of Abandonment and Virginia Woolf ’s Flush Phillip Drake (bio) Elena Ferrante’s depictions of women, family, and gender politics appropriately have received considerable attention from the media and her fervent readers. In her second novel, the devastating Days of Abandonment,1 these issues are inflected by a fraught woman-dog relationship. After her husband …
Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Politics (5 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)