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Jason Pine
Occupation(s)Writer, anthropologist
Employer(s)Purchase College, SUNY
Known for
  • The Art of Making Do in Naples
  • The Alchemy of Meth

Jason Pine is an American writer and anthropologist. He is Professor of Anthropology and Media Studies.[1] at Purchase College, State University of New York. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. He was a Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin for Fall 2011 [2]

Academic Work and Publications

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Pine’s first book, The Art of Making Do in Naples is a study of the contact zones between ordinary people "making do" in neomelodic music scene and organized crime networks known as the camorra, was translated into Italian as Napoli Sotto Traccia: Musica Neomelodica e Marginalità Sociale [3] and received the 2015 Premio Sila (Sguardo da Lontano) [4].

Pine's second book,The Alchemy of Meth elaborates, in literary nonfiction form, ideas on self-enhancement and extractive capitalism proposed in his essays, "Economy of Speed: The New Narco-Capitalism" [5], "Embodied Capitalism and the Meth Body" [6], and "Last Chance Incorporated" [7].

Pine narrated the audiobook version of the book for Blackstone Publishing in 2020 [8]. The book received the 2020 Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing [9], Honorable Mention and the 2020 Gregory Bateson Book Prize, Honorable Mention [10].

Public engagement

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Pine's research has been featured in public radio, interviews, and cultural criticism, including:

  • To the Best of Our Knowledge, Wisconsin Public Radio (2020):[11]
  • Public Intellectual with Jessa Crispin (2020):[12]
  • This is Hell! with Chuck Mertz (2019)[13]

His work has also appeared in CityLab [14], The New Republic [15], GQ España, 032c, Atlas Obscura, and American Scholar.

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References

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  1. ^ "Faculty Profile – Jason Pine". Purchase College. Retrieved 2025-04-18.
  2. ^ "Jason Pine". American Academy in Berlin. Retrieved 2025-05-15.
  3. ^ "Napoli sotto traccia". Retrieved 2025-05-15.
  4. ^ "Premio speciale "Sguardo da lontano" 2015 a Jason Pine". 11 November 2015. Retrieved 2025-05-15.
  5. ^ Pine, Jason. "Economy of Speed: The New Narco-Capitalism." Public Culture 19, no. 2 (2007): 357–366. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2006-043
  6. ^ Pine, Jason. "Embodied Capitalism and the Meth Body." In The Body Reader: Essential Social and Cultural Readings, edited by Lisa Jean Moore and Mary Kosut, 164–183. New York: NYU Press, 2010. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814795668.001.0001
  7. ^ Pine, Jason. "Last Chance Incorporated." Cultural Anthropology 31, no. 2 (2016): 297–318. https://doi.org/10.14506/ca31.2.07
  8. ^ Pine, Jason. The Alchemy of Meth: A Decomposition. University of Minnesota Press, 2019. [1]
  9. ^ Society for Humanistic Anthropology. "2020 Winners of the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing and the Edie Turner First Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing." August 3, 2020. [2]
  10. ^ Society for Cultural Anthropology. "Savannah Shange, Miyarrka Media, and Alan Klima Awarded the 2020 Gregory Bateson Book Prizes." November 9, 2020. [3]
  11. ^ "Jason Pine interview".
  12. ^ "Interview with Jason Pine".
  13. ^ "Jason Pine: On meth, alchemy, and capitalism".
  14. ^ "The Rise and Fall of America's Rural Meth Labs". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2025-04-18.
  15. ^ "I Embedded with a Community of Meth Users". New Republic. Retrieved 2025-04-18.