Publications

• 2025

  AfDevLives ECRIS Workshop, Yonatan N. Gez, Claire Médard, Eunice Kamaara, Eric Masese, Carla Bertin, Nathaniel Chimhete, Berenike Eichhorn, Marie-Aude Fouéré, Hellen Githogori, Ilmari Huotari, Raquel Jerobon, Anna-Riikka Kauppinen, Manya Kagan, Mercy Kosgei, Lena Kroeker, Keren Kuenberg, Anselmo Matusse, Munene Mugambi, Lucy Mule, George Mutalemwa, Francis Ngure, Orlando Nipassa, Samuel Owiwa, Stephen Nyagaya, Manuel João Ramos, Elisabeth Schubinger, Ali Umulkher et Esther Wahome, « Ghosts of Bilateralism: Collaborative Research on the Afterlives of a Finnish-Kenyan Water Development Project », Les Cahiers d’Afrique de l’Est / The East African Review [En ligne], 60 | 2025, mis en ligne le 30 juillet 2025, consulté le 28 août 2025. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/eastafrica/4914 ; DOI :https://doi.org/10.4000/14g4m

  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

  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

  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.

  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

  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).

  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

• 2019

  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/

  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.

  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.