Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Lecturer in Anthropology
- Name:
- Dr Benjamin Bowles
- Email address:
- bb37@soas.ac.uk
- Address:
- SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 569
- Academic Support Hours:
- Wednesdays 4.00-6.00pm, please see bio for details
Biography
Office Hours Term 2
I will be holding my face to face office hours 4pm-6pm on Wednesdays in my room (569), and online meetings by appointment throughout the rest of the week.
Publications
- Bowles, B. O. L. (forthcoming) London’s “Super Sewer”: A case study for the interdisciplinary possibili-ties of anthropologists and economists investigating infrastructure assets together. Research in Economic Anthropology. 41
- Bowles, B. O. L. (forthcoming). Infrastructure, Resilience and the Neoliberal Citizen. Social Contract Spe-cial Journal Issue. Johansson, M. S. & Burnyeat, G. (Eds.)
- Bayliss, K., Bowles, B. O. L., Van Waeyenberge. E. (forthcoming). Building Back Better - But Better for Whom? The Mint. 15
- Bowles, B. O. L. (forthcoming). The linear village? Chasing “community” amongst boat dwellers on the waterways of South East England. In Maritime Spaces – Selected Studies in Maritime Sociology (eds. Kolodziej-Durnas A., Sowa, F., and Grasmeier, M. C)
- Bowles, B. O. L. (in press). “Can’t Trust”: The Boaters of the waterways of South-East England versus “the charity that makes you homeless.” In Split Waters: Examining Conflicts Related to Water and Their Narration. Cortesi, Luisa & Joy, J. K (eds.) Water Conflict Forum
- Bowles, B. O. L. (2019). “This squiggly wiggly, not quite democratic thing”: A Deleuzian frame for Boaters' political (dis)organisation on the waterways of London. Anthropological Notebooks. 25 (2): 35-55
- Bowles, B. O. L., Kaaristo, M. & Rogelja, N. (2019). Dwelling on and with water: Materialities, Mobili-ties and Metaphors. Anthropological Notebooks. 25 (2): 5-12
- Bowles, B. O. L. (2019). Dwelling, Pollution and the Rhetorical Creation of “Nature” on the Waterways of Southern England. In The Culture of Ships and Maritime Narratives. Papadopolou, Chryssanthi (ed.) London & New York: Routledge
- Bowles, B.O.L (2018) Known Unknowns: Critical Reflections on Daniel M. Goldstein’s Outlawed: Be-tween Security and Rights in a Bolivian City. Journal of Legal Anthropology. 2 (2): 109-116
- Bowles, B.O.L (2018). The boaters - myths and legends. The Royal Anthropological Institute Review. Spring: 10-11.
- Bowles, B.O.L. (2017). Gongoozled: Freedom, Surveillance And The Public/Private Divide On The Wa-terways Of South East England. Etnofoor. 29 (1): 63-79
- Bowles, B. O. L. (2016). "Time is like a soup": Boat Time and the Temporal Experience of London's Live-aboard Boaters. The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology. 34 (1): 100-112
- Bowles, B. O. L. & Guglielmo, F. (2015). Whose Anthropology is it, Anyway? Anthropology in Action. 22 (3): 1-6
- Bowles, B. O. L. (2014). Dangerous Waters: Security threats and their role in community formation among itinerant boat-dwellers on the waterways of southern England. Student Anthropologist. 4 (1): 6-17