Joseph Masco

2.9k total citations
30 papers, 908 citations indexed

About

Joseph Masco is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Joseph Masco has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 908 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 4 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Joseph Masco's work include Nuclear Issues and Defense (12 papers), Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 papers) and Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (3 papers). Joseph Masco is often cited by papers focused on Nuclear Issues and Defense (12 papers), Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 papers) and Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (3 papers). Joseph Masco collaborates with scholars based in United States. Joseph Masco's co-authors include John Borneman and Anna Tsing and has published in prestigious journals such as American Anthropologist, Current Anthropology and Social Studies of Science.

In The Last Decade

Joseph Masco

28 papers receiving 745 citations

Peers

Joseph Masco
Miles Ogborn United Kingdom
Matthew H. Edney United States
Amítav Ghosh United Kingdom
Elizabeth DeLoughrey United States
Stephen Daniels United Kingdom
David Christian Australia
Sumathi Ramaswamy United States
Scott Kirsch United States
Deborah Dixon United Kingdom
Michael O’Hanlon United States
Miles Ogborn United Kingdom
Joseph Masco
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Countries citing papers authored by Joseph Masco

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joseph Masco

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joseph Masco

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All Works

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Masco, Joseph. (2020). The Nuclear Borderlands. Princeton University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Masco, Joseph. (2020). The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making. 10 indexed citations
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Masco, Joseph. (2020). The Theater of Operations. 6 indexed citations
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Masco, Joseph. (2017). ‘Boundless informant’: Insecurity in the age of ubiquitous surveillance. Anthropological Theory. 17(3). 382–403. 6 indexed citations
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Masco, Joseph. (2016). The Six Extinctions. Environmental Philosophy. 14(1). 11–40. 4 indexed citations
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Masco, Joseph. (2016). The Crisis in Crisis. Current Anthropology. 58(S15). S65–S76. 77 indexed citations
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Borneman, John & Joseph Masco. (2015). Anthropology and the Security State. American Anthropologist. 117(4). 781–785. 14 indexed citations
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Masco, Joseph. (2014). The Theater of Operations. 111 indexed citations
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Masco, Joseph. (2013). Terror as normality. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 69(6). 26–32. 2 indexed citations
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Masco, Joseph. (2013). Auditing the War on Terror: The Watson Institute's Costs of War Project. American Anthropologist. 115(2). 312–313. 1 indexed citations
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Masco, Joseph. (2008). Target audience. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 64(3). 22–31.
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Masco, Joseph. (2005). “Active Measures”; or, How a KGB Spymaster Made Good in Post-9/11 America. Radical History Review. 2005(93). 285–300. 1 indexed citations
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Masco, Joseph. (2005). The Billboard Campaign: The Los Alamos Study Group and the Nuclear Public Sphere. Public Culture. 17(3). 487–498. 3 indexed citations
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Masco, Joseph. (2004). Nuclear technoaesthetics: Sensory politics from trinity to the virtual bomb in Los Alamos. American Ethnologist. 31(3). 349–373. 31 indexed citations
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Masco, Joseph. (2004). Mutant Ecologies: Radioactive Life in Post-Cold War New Mexico. Cultural Anthropology. 19(4). 517–550. 65 indexed citations
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Masco, Joseph. (2002). Lie Detectors: On Secrets and Hypersecurity in Los Alamos. Public Culture. 14(3). 441–467. 39 indexed citations
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Masco, Joseph. (1998). The Potlatch Papers: A Colonial Case History. American Anthropologist. 100(4). 1052–1053. 1 indexed citations

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