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Behind the Purdah

What’s it like to be a working-class woman in a hot city?

Ankur Writers Collective
Amita Baviskar
Disappearing Balconies

What does the enclosure of balconies say about climate, class, and caste?

Llerena G. Searle
Escape to the Country

How has agrarian crisis transformed the interiors of the Himalayan foothills?

Sarah Besky
Yojak Tamang
Middling Worlds

Can we imagine a climate future
inside a giant plastic bag?

Javier Lezaun
Apertures all the Way Down

What’s concealed in a frame?

Emma Pask
Emily Lee
Under the Surface

How do you make sense of an inaccessible interior?

Andrea Ballestero
The Architecture of Vector Control

Can bricks be made to breathe?

Elizabeth L. McCormick
Ann H. Kelly
Ibrahim Msuya
Twilight Shift

How does global shipping deliver thermal inequality?

Bharat Jayram Venkat
Skin Deep

What if skin care is really planetary care?

Alex Nading
Climate in My Mind

How does anxiety become an environmental relationship?

Julie Livingston
Mold Chains

How is refrigeration mobilized against fungal life?

Jamie Cross
The Interior Frontier

Are greenhouses the solution to the global food crisis?

Rebeca Ibáñez Martín
The Art of Enclosure

What does it take to air-condition an open-air event?

Jiat-Hwee Chang
Sharad Pandian
Narrating the Inside

That was the brief: go to Kolkata and see if you can find the climate story. That’s pretty much what I do.
—Anant Gupta

Anant Gupta
Preface: The Impossible Interior

In this issue, Limn tells climate stories from the inside out.

Alex Nading
Sarah Besky
Jason Cons
Is Limn Obsolete?
The founding editors reflect on the journal’s origins
Christopher M. Kelty
Andrew Lakoff
Stephen J. Collier
Deprecating Death

Can the war on life be rendered obsolete?

Raj Patel
Dust, Foam, Waste

Traces on the sea

Laleh Khalili
When Does a Car Die?

Mumbai’s discarded taxis are an archive of the city

Tarini Bedi
Expressway Trajectories

On the road to Uganda’s future

Prince Guma
Joel Ongwech
Technical Hospitality

Facing a post-antibiotic future, scientists and patients forge new alliances in pursuit of old therapies

Rijul Kochhar
Strange Abundance

Can deconstruction unlock resources abandoned in late industrial cities?

Catherine Fennell
A Mix for the Ages

As media forms come and go, why do cassette tapes live on?

Benjamin Duester
Rob Drew
When Crisis Calls

How the COVID-19 pandemic resuscitated old satellite technology in Thailand

Panita Chatikavanij