Lisa Min

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.

Frank Billet, a UC Berkeley cultural anthropologist/geographer studying borders and sovereignty, and Lisa Min, an anthropologist of visuality focused on North Korea, discuss redaction as a multimodal practice. They explore redaction’s origins in workshops and fieldwork, visual and poetic experiments, printing and design challenges, algorithmic constraints, ethical and safety tradeoffs in research, and how redaction creates ambiguous, generative spaces.

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.