Charlene Makeley
Elizabeth C. Ducey Professor of Anthropology at Reed College whose research examines state-building, development, and cultural politics among Tibetans; co-author of a chapter in the Redacted volume exploring redaction and ethnography in occupied Tibet.
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Feb 4, 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; Lisa Min, a visuality researcher on North Korea; and Frank Biet, a cultural geographer of borders. They trace the origins of a redaction project and debate redaction as aesthetic practice, ethical survival, and design challenge. They probe visual, multimodal forms, self-censorship, institutional limits, and how redaction reshapes political imaginaries.
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.
