publications:

Books:

Carney, M.A. In progress. Exit from the United States: Emigration, Carcerality, and Abolition Feminist Futures.

Carney, M.A. 2015. The Unending Hunger: Tracing Women and Food Insecurity Across Borders. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press. (Winner of the 2015 CHOICE award; named one of the “Best Food Insecurity Books” by Healthline in 2017; selected as a California Book for Action in 2018)

Edited Journal Volumes:

Carney, M.A. and Kenworthy, N. 2017. Guest Editors for Special Issue of Social Science and Medicine, “Austerity, Health and Wellbeing: Transnational Perspectives.” Volume 187.

Articles & Chapters:

Carney, M.A. Forthcoming. “Fieldwork in Transition: Rethinking Anxieties, Solidarities, and Ontologies Amid Compounding Forms of Distress.” Feminist Anthropology.

Dieudonne, K., Ibarra, D., Frinton, D., Kenyon, S., Sabhlok, P., Schafroth, J., and M.A. Carney. Forthcoming. “‘Like Writing An-End-Of-Term Paper, Together’: Reflections on Mobilizing a Collective Pedagogy.” Transforming Anthropology.

Carney, M.A., Vannini, S., Genovese, A., Saguto, D., Jammeh, M., Deme, I. 2025. “‘Il gioco’ as knowledge co-production: Feminist and antiracist musings on the power of play.” Annals of Anthropological Practice DOI:10.1111/napa.12230

Carney, M.A., Chess, D., and Hammond, D. 2024. “Black-led Community Health Initiatives: Reflections on the Dunbar Wellness Project in Tucson, Arizona.” Practicing Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1080/08884552.2024.2387593

Carney, M.A. 2024. “The Climate-Food-Migration Nexus: Critical Perspectives.” Global Food Security.

Carney, M.A., Chess, D., Ibarra, D., Dieudonne, K., Rascon-Canales, M. 2023. “‘A Million Other Factors Killing Us’: Black Women’s Health and Refusing Necropolitics-as-usual During Covid-19.” Social Science and Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116051

Hardin, J., Saldaña-Tejeda, A., Gálvez, A., Yates-Doerr, E., Garth, H., Dickinson, M., Carney, M.A., and N. Valdez. 2023. “Short take: Duo-ethnographic Methods: A Feminist Take on Collaborative Research.” Field Methods. https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X231158894

Carney, M.A., Chess, D., and Rascon-Canales, M. 2022. “‘There Would Be More Black Spaces’: Care/giving Cartographies During Covid-19.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12732 (Winner of the 2024 Steven Polgar Prize for Best Paper in 2023 volume of Medical Anthropology Quarterly)

N. Valdez, Carney, M.A., E. Yates-Doeer, A. Saldaña, J. Hardin, H. Garth, A. Galvéz, and M. Dickinson. 2022. “Duo-ethnography as Transformative Praxis: Nourishment and Coercive Care in the COVID-era Academy.” Feminist Anthropology 3(1): 92-105. http://doi.org/10.1002/fea2.12085

Carney, M.A. 2021. “Teaching with Microbes: Lessons from Fermentation During a Pandemic.” mSystems 6(4): e00566-21. https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00566-21

Sangaramoorthy, T. and Carney, M.A. 2021. Guest Editors for Special Issue. “Introduction to Special Issue: Immigration, Mental Health, and Psychosocial Wellbeing.” Medical Anthropology. DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2021.1931174

Gálvez, A., Carney, M.A., and Yates-Doerr, E. 2020. Guest Editors for Vital Topics Forum. “Chronic Disaster: Reimagining Noncommunicable Chronic Disease.” American Anthropologist 122(3): 639-665.

Carney, M.A. 2020. “Critical Perspectives on the Microbiome.” American Anthropologist 122(3): 642-643.

Basu, S., Carney, M.A., and Kenworthy, N. 2017. “Ten years after the financial crisis: The long reach of austerity and its global impacts on health.” Social Science and Medicine 187: 203-207.

Carney, M.A. 2017. “‘Sharing One’s Destiny’: Effects of Austerity on Migrant Health Provisioning in the Mediterranean Borderlands.” Social Science and Medicine 187: 251-258. (Winner of the 2017 Rudolf Virchow Award)

Yates-Doerr, E. and Carney, M.A. 2016. “De-medicalizing Health: Reflections on the Kitchen as a Site of Care.” Medical Anthropology 35(4): 305-21.