Jason PineJason Pine is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Media Studies at SUNY Purchase. His research focuses on people’s everyday pursuits of personal sovereignty in alternative economies and alternative ecologies. In his first book, The Art f Making Do in Naples (2012), he examined how underemployed aspiring singers become entangled with the Camorra, the region’s powerful and volatile organized crime networks. His current book project, A Decomposition: Meth Labs and the Matter of Life, is on small-scale methamphetamine manufacture in rural Missouri and the decompositioning of people, objects, and late industrial landscapes. Pine’s research has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Chemical Heritage Foundation, and the American Academy in Berlin. Read More Read Less