Bread & Wheat
Barnes, J. 2023 The Future of Staple Foods: The Case of Bread in Egypt. Geographical Review, doi: 10.1080/00167428.2023.2280656.
Barnes, J. 2023 Nurseries of the Revolution: International Seed Trials and the Transformation of Staple Food Crops. Journal of Peasant Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2023.2174855
Barnes, J. and Taher, M. 2019 Care and Conveyance: Buying Baladi Bread in Cairo. Cultural Anthropology, 34(3): 417-443.
Barnes, J. 2019 Gluten. In Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon. Howe, C. and Pandian, A. (eds). Goleta: Punctum Books.
Barnes, J. 2016 Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: The Social Worlds of Wheat. Environment and Society: Advances in Research, 7: 89-106.
Ethnographic methods
Barnes, J. and K. Centellas. 2024 Parenting and the Production of Ethnographic Knowledge. American Anthropologist, 126: 722-730
Barnes, J. and Taher, M. 2023 Walking with Bread in Cairo: Ethnographic Collaboration Between a Researcher and a Research Assistant. Ethnography, 5
https://doi.org/10.1177/1466138122114890.
Water
Randle, S. and Barnes, J. 2018 Liquid Futures: Water Management Systems and Anticipated Environments. WIREs Water, 5. doi: 10.1002/wat2.1274
Barnes, J. 2017 States of Maintenance: Power, Politics, and Egypt’s Irrigation Infrastructure. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 35(1): 146-164.
Barnes, J. 2014 Mixing Waters: The Reuse of Agricultural Drainage Water in Egypt. Geoforum, 57: 181-191.
Barnes, J. 2013 Water, Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink: The False Promise of Virtual Water. Critique of Anthropology, 33(4): 369-387. (Winner of the 2013 Junior Scholar Award, Anthropology & Environment Society, American Anthropological Association.)
Barnes, J. 2012 Pumping Possibility: Agricultural Expansion through Desert Reclamation in Egypt. Social Studies of Science, 42(4): 517-538.
Barnes, J. and Alatout, S. 2012 Water Worlds: Introduction to the Special Issue of Social Studies of Science. Social Studies of Science, 42(4): 483-488.
Barnes, J. 2009 Managing the Waters of Bacth Country: The Power and Politics of Syria’s Water Scarcity. Geopolitics, 14(3): 510-530.
Climate change
Barnes, J. 2022 Absences: Thematic Exclusions at a United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference. Hot Spots, Fieldsights, Cultural Anthropology Website, June 23.
Barnes, J. 2017 The Future of the Nile: Climate Change, Land Use, Infrastructure Management, and Treaty Negotiations in a Transboundary River. WIREs Climate Change, 8. doi:10.1002/wcc.449.
Barnes, J. 2018 Overstating Climate Change in Egypt’s Uprising. Middle East Report Online, October 11.
Barnes, J. 2016 Uncertainty in the Signal: Modeling Egypt’s Water Futures. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 22(S1): 46-66.
Mathews, A. and Barnes, J. 2016 Prognosis: Visions of Environmental Futures. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 22 (S1): 9-26.
Barnes, J., Dove, M., Lahsen, M., Mathews, A., McElwee, P., McIntosh, R., Moore, F., O’Reilly, J., Orlove, B., Puri, R., Weiss, H., and Yager, K. 2013 Anthropology’s Contribution to the Study of Climate Change. Nature Climate Change, 3: 541-544
THE MIDDLE EAST
Barnes, J. 2024 Placing the Environment in Middle East Studies: Beyond the Single Story. British Journal of Middle East Studies, 1-19.
Babül, E., Davis, M., Barnes, J. and Lubin, A. 2021 Racial Formations in the Middle East. Middle East Report, 299.
Barnes, J. 2020 Water in the Middle East: A Primer. Middle East Research and Information Project.5
Barnes, J., Davis, M. and Stamatopoulou-Robbins, S. 2020. Nature and Politics. Middle East Report, 296.
Farmer, T. and Barnes, J. 2018 Environment and Society in the Middle East and North Africa: Introduction. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 50(3): 375-382.
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