Nicholas Caverly

STS, Racism and Racial Capitalism, Cities, Techno-Politics, Design Justice

I am an anthropologist of technology interested in the intersections of racism, space, and justice. In my research I use ethnographic and archival methods to investigate political ecologies of racial capital—especially white power and anti-blackness—in North American cities. My work is organized around three main questions:

1. why do structural inequities persist?
2. how do the material conditions of inequity shape bodies, places, and technical systems?
3. what do people do to respond?