How to Make Climate Change Feel Real
The year is 2018. The world’s leaders are gathered, yet again, to try to solve the crisis of climate change. But this time, the United Nations secretary-general is…
Author: Adam Fleischmann
Role-playing urgency: bridging climate change knowledge and action?
Image: Adam Fleischmann “What does it mean to know climate change?” ask Henderson and Long in a 2015 piece for this site’s Anthropologies #21. Researchers on science education,…
Feelings in the field: reflections on fieldwork in murk-o
Image: Nick Seaver (https://twitter.com/npseaver/) My lower back is sore. There’s a tension that’s rising from the place where my neck meets my scalp, and my eyes feel baggy.…
Musings from the murky middle ground of climate science and action
Image: NASA (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glacial_lakes,_Bhutan.jpg) “There are many reasons why people in our field work remotely,” one data analytics coordinator tells me. We are talking …
1.5ºC: The Future and Present of Anthropology in an Era of Climate Change
Image: Trent Schindler, NASA/Goddard/UMBC (https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/climate-sim-center.html) Anthro{dendum} welcomes guest blogger Adam Fleischmann Early Saturday morning, October 6,…
In Search of Hope #HumanRights
On April 30 and May 1, 2015 fourteen anthropologists from seven countries and thirteen universities and research institutions came together on the campus of McGill University to attend…