Performing sustainable agriculture in the Peruvian Amazon
Agathe Faure MRes Social Anthropology University College London I conducted ethnographic fieldwork from May to July 2015 in villages of cacao farmers along the river of Alto Huayabamba,…
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Climate Change: War Footing or Peaceful Solidarity?
In recent years, prominent voices in the public sphere have drawn an analogy between climate change and warfare. This has led, for example, to calls for massive, coordinated…
If A War Is The Answer, What Was The Question?
Dr Samuel Randalls Department of Geography University College London The notion that climate change should invoke security-laced rhetoric and a military-style response is not new (de Goede and…
The Dangers of the Manhattan Model for Fighting Climate Change
Professor Merrill Singer Department of Anthropology University of Connecticut Asserting the Manhattan Project, the effort that developed the first nuclear weapons, as a model for addressing global cli…
Should This Not Be A War Against Ourselves?
Professor James Fairhead Department of Anthropology University of Sussex As a coalition builds to escalate war in Syria and neighbours, several of our princes and politicians have been…
The Climate Emergency Mobilization Framework: A Critical Review
Professor Hans A Baer School of Social and Political Sciences University of Melbourne Various scholars and climate activists have proposed a framework for climate change campaigning based on…
Without Attachment or Fear
Professor Dominic Boyer Director, CENHS, Rice University http://culturesofenergy.org/ Even if one were the sort who believed that war solved anything, there would still be the issue of identifying…
Climate change and the crisis of reciprocal relations among the Q’eros (Cuzco, Peru)
Geremia Cometti Postdoctoral Fellow Swiss National Science Foundation at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale in Paris The Q’eros are an indigenous group living on the oriental slope of the…
Globalizing the climate. Climatizing the world
Edouard Morena CNRS/LADYSS In this thematic Notes From The Field, Edouard Morena of CNRS/LADYSS describes a collaborative ethnographic project centring around the COP21 climate talks in Paris, Decembe…
Anthropological Visions of Sustainable Futures, 12-14 Feb 2015
Gillian Conquest & Cathryn Townsend PhD Students University College London The issue of sustainability is making us mad, claimed Bruno Latour in the keynote speech that opened Anthropological…