Publications

• 2025

  Schubiger, E. Under review. Navigating Water: Fluid Dispossessions and Institutional Change in Turkana's Petroscape. In: Giordano, M. and Askew, K. (guest editors) Collective Rights to Land and Resources: An Institutionalist Perspective on Pastoralism in Africa. Nomadic Peoples.

  Schubiger, E. In press. Turkana Professionals. Self-Accomplishment and Local Moralities in Kenya’s Oil Extraction Areas. In: Droz, Y., Gez, Y.N. and Fouéré, M.-A. (eds) The Art of Being Accomplished in East Africa. Paris, France: Africae.

  Schubiger, E. 2025. ‘Turkana’s Extractive Promises in Limbo’. Third World Quarterly, 1–18. doi: 10.1080/01436597.2024.2444324.

• 2024

  Joniak-Lüthi, A. 2024. Commissioned review of “Highways to the End of the World: Roads, Roadmen and Power in South Asia” (by Edward Simpson, 2022). Bloomsbury Pakistan, [online] Available at: https://bloomsburypakistan.org/book-review-highways-to-the-end-of-the-world/.

  Joniak-Lüthi, A. (Ed. in Chief). 2024. “Infrastructural Anxieties”, Roadsides 012, [online] Available at: https://roadsides.net/collection-no-012/.

  Joniak-Lüthi, A. (Ed. in Chief). 2024. “Concrete”, Roadsides 011, [online] Available at: https://roadsides.net/collection-no-011/.

  Kilaka, B.M. and Schubiger, E. 2024. ‘Maneuvering Enchantment of MIPs: LAPSSET Corridor and Project Oil Kenya in Turkana County’. In: Haller, T. and Weissman, S. (eds) Disenchanted Modernities: Mega-Infrastructure Projects, Socio-Ecological Changes and Local Responses. Berlin: Lit Verlag, pp. 179–207.

  Lustenberger, S., DePretto, S. and Boogen, A. 2024. Rasche Mitigation. In: Schillig, I. and Previšić, B. (eds) Die Alpen für eine Klimapositive Schweiz. Urner Institut Kulturen der Alpen, pp. 20-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10380388

  Plüss, H. 2024. Small Project - Big Disaster: Large-Scale Problems within the Small-Scale Hydropower Project ‘San José del Tambo’ in Ecuador. In: Haller, T. and Weissman, S. (eds) Disenchanted Modernities: Mega-Infrastructure Projects, Socio-Ecological Changes and Local Responses. Zürich: Lit Verlag.

  Schreiber, M., Lustenberger, S. and DePretto, S. 2024. Rechtliche Regulierungen. In: Schillig, I. and Previšić, B. (eds) Die Alpen für eine Klimapositive Schweiz. Urner Institut Kulturen der Alpen, pp. 112-114. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10380388

  Schubiger, E. 2024. ‘Turkana Oil Prospects: Petroscapes, Development Limbos and Self-Accomplishment at Kenya’s Northern Frontier’. Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.

• 2023

  Lustenberger, S. 2023. Alpine “Prosumer”: Von Menschen, die Generatoren am Laufen halten. In: Urner Institut Kulturen der Alpen (ed) Nutzen, Benutzen. Hegen. Pflegen. Die Alpen im Anthropozän. Zürich: Hier und Jetzt, pp. 30-38.

  Joniak-Lüthi, A. 2023. Ethnicizing infrastructure: roads, railways and differential mobility in northwest China. In: Feaux de la Croix, J. and Reeves, M. (eds) The Central Asian World. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 269-83.

  Haller, T., Joniak-Lüthi, A., Oberlack, C., Lundsgaard-Hansen, L.M., Hurni, K. and Weissmann, S. 2023. “The New Global Connect: Mega-Infrastructure Projects and Their Local Impacts.” Swiss Academies Factsheets, 18(1). [online] Available at: https://scnat.ch/en/uuid/i/9cd793af-0e8b-544f-8d85-4d315e844ca5-The_New_Global_Connect_Mega-Infrastructure_Projects_and_Their_Local_Impacts.

  Joniak-Lüthi, A. (Ed. in Chief). 2023. “Urban Bioinfrastructures”, Roadsides 010, [online] Available at: https://roadsides.net/collection-no-010/.

  Joniak-Lüthi, A. (Ed. in Chief). 2023. “Gendering Infrastructure”, Roadsides 009, [online] Available at: https://roadsides.net/collection-no-009/.

• 2022

  2022. “Asphalt – Lines and Lives,” online exhibition: [online] Available at: https://asphalt-lines-lives.com.

  Joniak-Lüthi, A., Rippa, A., Clendenning, J., DiCarlo, J., Erie, M.S., Hirsh, M., Karrar, H.H., La Mela, V., Lu, J., Mostowlansky, T., Murton, G., Ng, H., Norum, R., Oakes, T., Plachta, N., Reichhardt, B., Sarma, J., Sulek, E., Tang, D., Urmanbetova, Z. and White, T. 2022. Demystifying the Belt and Road Initiative. Fribourg, Munich and Boulder. [online] Available at: https://bri.roadworkasia.com.

  Joniak-Lüthi, A., La Mela, V., Sułek, E.R., White, T., Urmanbetova, Z., Diodorova, K. and Voronetskaya, A. 2022. Fieldwork: Creating anthropological knowledge. A multimedia story. [online] Available at: https://creatinganthroknowledge.roadworkasia.com/50/.

  Ndunda, E. and Schubiger, E. 2022. ‘Mary Kanyaman Ekai: Gender and Livestock Rustling in Northern Kenya - The Elephant’. [online] Available at: https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2022/11/25/mary-kanyaman-ekai-gender-and-livestock-rustling-in-northern-kenya/.

  Oakes, T., Clendenning, J., DiCarlo, J., Erie, M.S., Hirsh, M., Joniak-Lüthi, A., Karrar, H.H., La Mela, V., Lu, J., Mostowlansky, T., Murton, G., Ng, H., Norum, R., Plachta, N., Reichhardt, B., Rippa, A., Sarma, J., Sulek, E., Tang, D., Urmanbetova, Z. and White, T. 2022. China’s global development model: Looking beyond the Belt and Road Initiative. Fribourg, Munich, and Boulder. [online] Available at: https://chinadevelopmentmodel.roadworkasia.com.

  Plüss, H. 2022. Development or Justice? The (De-)Construction of a Political Conflict around a Hydroelectric Powerplant in San Pablo de Amalí, Ecuador. Online presentation. LASA2022 Hybrid Congress: Polarización socioambiental y rivalidad entre grandes potencias, 5-8 May 2022.

  Plüss, H. 2022. El impacto social de la planificación, construcción y operación de la hidroeléctrica San José del Tambo en la comunidad de San Pablo de Amalí y la cuenca del río Dulcepamba. Online presentation. Foro: Caso Río Dulcepamba, 23 February 2022, University San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador.

• 2021

  Urmanbetova, Z. and Joniak-Lüthi, A. 2021. Welcome and Unwelcome Connections: Travelling Post-Soviet Roads in Kyrgyzstan. Central Asian Survey, 41(2), pp. 260-76. DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2021.1968346.

• 2020

  Woodworth, M.D. and Joniak-Lüthi, A. 2020. Exploring China’s borderlands in an era of BRI-induced change. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 61(1). [online] Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15387216.2020.1727758.

  Joniak-Lüthi, A. 2020. A road, a disappearing river and fragile connectivity in Sino-Inner Asian borderlands. Political Geography, 78. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.102122.

  Joniak-Lüthi, A. and Rest, M. (eds). 2020. #ROADSIDES Curated thematic thread. [online] Available at: https://allegralaboratory.net/category/thematic-threads/roadsides/.

  Joniak-Lüthi, A. and Woodworth, M. (eds). 2020. Exploring China’s borderlands in an era of BRI-induced change. Special issue in Eurasian Geography and Economics, 61(1).

• 2019

  Rey, J., Bolay, M. and Schubiger, E. 2019. ‘Généalogie de l’“élève cosmopolite” et marchandisation de l’“international” dans des établissements scolaires privés en Suisse’. In: Kindheit(en) in formalen, nonformalen und informellen Bildungskontexten, Kinder, Kindheiten und Kindheitsforschung. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, pp. 259-78.

  Joniak-Lüthi, A. 2019. Maintaining whose road? In: Martinez, F. and Laviolette, P. (eds) Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough: Ethnographic Responses (‘Material Mediations’ series). New York and Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 261-67.

  Joniak-Lüthi, A. 2019. Introduction: Infrastructure as an Asynchronic Timescape. Roadsides, 1, pp. 3-10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26034/roadsides-20190012.

  Joniak-Lüthi, A. 2019. Orbital. Society and Space. Collection on “Volumetric Sovereignty” edited by Franck Billé. [online] Available at: http://societyandspace.org/2019/04/09/orbital/.

  Joniak-Lüthi, A. (ed.) 2019. Infrastructural Times. Inaugural edited collection. Roadsides, 001. [online] Available at: https://roadsides.net/ejournal/.

  Schubiger, E., Rey, J. and Bolay, M. 2019. ‘Fostering the Next Generation of “Responsible World Leaders”: The Learning of Corporate Social Responsibility in Swiss International Schools’. Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology, 24, pp. 121-26. DOI: 10.36950/tsantsa.2019.24.6929.

   

• 2015

  Schubiger, E. 2015. ‘Ethnography of a Large-Scale Land Acquisition in West Kenya: “No Matter How Loud the Frogs Croak, the Cow Still Drinks the Water”’. Universität Bern, Institut für Sozialanthropologie, Bern.