The Center for Palestine Studies congratulates Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins on winning the 2020 Albert Hourani Book Award for Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine (2019).
”This book offers an outstanding and novel contribution to the study of Palestinian life as a waste siege. Through a rich ethnography and a sophisticated theoretical analysis this book focuses on the governance and governing power of waste.”
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Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Bard and holds a PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University. Sophia spoke about her book Waste Siege with Brian Boyd as part of the Center’s Palestine Library programming in February 2020.