Charlene Makeley
Elizabeth C. Ducey Professor of Anthropology at Reed College who researches state-building and Tibetan cultural politics and is a co-editor and contributor to Redacted.
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Feb 3, 2026 • 1h 25min
Lisa Min et al. eds., "Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State" (punctum books, 2024)
Charlene Makeley, an anthropologist of Tibetan politics and state-building; Frank Biet, a cultural anthropologist-geographer of borders and sovereignty; and Lisa Min, an expert on visuality and North Korea. They explore redaction as method and form. They discuss multimodal experiments, workshops that shaped the book, visual design and printing challenges, ethical anonymization, and how censorship reshapes research and everyday life.
Feb 3, 2026 • 1h 25min
Lisa Min et al. eds., "Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State" (punctum books, 2024)
Charlene Makeley, an anthropologist of Tibet and state-local relations, and Lisa Min, who studies visuality and politics around North Korea, discuss the book Redacted. They explore redaction as aesthetic practice, multimodal experiments with poetry and art, workshops and printed visual interventions, and how self-censorship, ethics, and performative readings reshape ethnographic and political worlds.
