Apologies for cross posting.
Please join us for the second of our LSHTM Medical Anthropology seminars this term on Monday 19th November from 4-5pm in the Jenny Roberts room, LSHTM, 15-17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH.
Medical Anthropology Research Seminar Series, Autumn 2018
Monday 19th November- Kirsten Bell (University of Roehampton)
‘The invisible materiality of the cigarette packet’
In recent years, cigarette packets have become the site of considerable legislative attention based on the premise that branded cigarette packaging acts as a ‘silent salesman’ for smoking. According to this perspective, the cigarette packet has a particular sort of agency, but one rooted entirely in its communicative powers rather than its material qualities. Drawing together insights gleaned through a decade of research with smokers in Canada, an analysis of archives in the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents Library, and scholarship on materiality and containerization, I reconsider this view. Taking up the idea of containers – and enclosures more broadly – as undertheorized forms of materiality, I argue that the cigarette packet has powerful, albeit largely invisible, physical consequences on the circulation of cigarettes and the practice of smoking itself.
UPCOMING SEMINARS:
Monday 10th December- Sonia Zafar Smith (UCL and Birkbeck)
‘A sheltered space, a sheltered person? Future, wellbeing and the infrastructure of war and defence’
For more information please contact: Rebecca Lynch ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) or Melissa Parker ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
All welcome, please distribute widely.
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Rebecca Lynch
Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Medical Anthropology
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
15-17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH
020 7636 8636 ext. 8298
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