Publications
Email me (robyn.davignon [at] nyu.edu) if you want access to a piece that is not available to you.
Books
A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa (Duke University Press, 2022).
Available for pre-order from Duke UP or Amazon. Use the code E22DAVIG to save 30% on the book! The Open Access edition will be freely available in August. The e-book is available on Amazon Kindle, Apple e-books, Barnes & Noble Nook, and kobo.
Read the introduction here.
Journal Special Issues
“The African Soviet Modern,” Co-edited with Elizabeth Banks and Asif Siddiqi. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 41, no. 1 (May 2021), 2-70. Article Authors: Elizabeth Banks, Asif Siddiqi, Steffi Marung, Andrew Ivaska.
Articles (Peer Review)
“Introduction: The African Soviet Modern.” Co-authored with Elizabeth Banks and Asif Siddiqi. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 41, no. 1 (May 2021), 2-10.
“Spirited Geobodies: Producing Subterranean Property in Nineteenth-Century Bambuk, West Africa,” Special Issue: Africanizing Technology, Technology & Culture, 61, no. 2 (April 2020), S20-S48. **Winner of the 2021 Abbott Payson Usher Prize, Society for the History of Technology
“Primitive Techniques: From ‘Customary’ to ‘Artisanal’ Mining in French West Africa,” The Journal of African History 59, no. 2 (2018), 179-97.
“Shelf Projects: The Political Life of Exploration Geology in Senegal,” Special Issue: Engaging the Underground, Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, no. 4 (2018), 111-130.
Articles (Editorial Review)
“Protest Geologies,” Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsites, Cultural Anthropology (Sep 22, 2020).
“Minerals,” Special Issue: Toxicity, Waste, and Detritus in the Global South, Somatosphere: Science, Medicine, and Anthropology (Dec 11, 2017).
Book Reviews
“Pratik Chakrabarti’s Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity,” Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society, 113, no. 2 (2022), 446-447.
Interviews
In Progress
“On Cartographic Error: A Mine in the Park and the Future of Conservation in Senegal,” co-authored with Stephen Wood (Senior Scientist, The Nature Conservancy).
“Souleymane Kanté’s N’Ko Plant Script: Making a Maninka Scientific Territory in Post-Colonial Guinea.”