Running Out: In Search of Water on the High
Plains (Finalist,
National Book Awards 2021 for Nonfiction) by Lucas Bessire,
past Member in the School of Social Science, was published by
Princeton University Press on May 18, 2021:
The difference a year at the Institute can make. In 2012–13,
Lucas Bessire and Laurence Ralph met while Members in
the School of Social Science. Working closely with Professor
Didier Fassin and other scholars in
the School, the two young...
This ethnographic project and I have grown up together. It
evolved through repeated returns over the course of forty-two
months of fieldwork carried out in Bolivia and Paraguay between
2001 and 2013. Its focus has sharply changed since I began...
