By hosting the UN’s global Climate Change conference COP29 in Baku (11-22 November 2024), Azerbaijan presents itself as a climate-responsible oil state and new political ally and donor…
By Fred Wojnarowski, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, LSE. At COP28, water was everywhere. COP28 was based on the first UN Water Conference in March, which…
A passage from the novel Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor reads: La Matosa was slowly dotted once more with shacks and shanties raised on the bones of those…
Geoengineering at the Arctic Circle I first heard about Solar Radiation Modification (SRM)—a form of geoengineering meant to address climate change through planetary cooling—during the 2023 Arctic Cir…
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology for Anthropology News By Mareike Winchell Jesús Valdivia planned to get his cows high. This, … More
In this Mad Max–like California landscape, artists and activists are inventing renewable alternatives to the capitalist system that’s developing but also destroying the region. ✽ Dusk at the…
by Florian Stammler, Asiarpa Paviasen and Tupaarnaq Kreutzmann-Kleist What connects dams, hydropower, green energy, agriculture, sheep farming and Inuit in Greenland? Inuit are better known in the pop…
By Ajmal Khan A.T, National Law University of India and Harvard University Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is emerging as one of the major global climate solutions. Currently,…
By Veronica Bayiha ñwa Quillien, The Language Attitude Institute Self & Climate Change As a member of the Bàsàa people of Cameroon, I have witnessed firsthand the profound…
By Cristóbal Emilfork, University of California, Davis Not only countries met at the COP. The venue also seemed to be a meeting point for diverse temporalities. As yet…
By Emma Banks, Bucknell University When I stopped by the Colombia Pavilion during week two of COP28, I was greeted by a familiar name on the speakers’ list:…
By Annikki Herranen-Tabibi, Harvard Medical School, United States On a sweltering afternoon in the congested Expo City of Dubai, I entered the COP28 Visitor Center to collect my…
By Mark Ortiz, the Pennsylvania State University An image of the exterior of the Youth Hub in the COP 28 Green Zone, Dubai, UAE. Photo taken by Author.…
By Ryan Cecil Jobson, The University of Chicago In November 2023, Caribbean heads-of-state, government ministers, and environmental advisors arrived in the United Arab Emirates for the COP28 C…
By Sarah Hautzinger, Professor of Anthropology, Colorado College People from a variety of faith traditions gather at the Faith Pavilion of the United Nations climate summit COP28 for…
An anthropologist follows a group of men who work in India’s rickshaw industry, revealing how their practices of masculinity and mutual aid shape their responses to intensifying flood…
Observe (verb) notice or perceive (something) and register it as being significant. watch (someone or something) carefully and attentively. take note of or detect (something) in the course…
An anthropologist examines what past farmers can teach us about adapting to climate change amid—and sometimes against—powerful political influences. This article was originally published at The Conve…
A Special Ethnographic Collection on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), 28th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 28). By Emily Hite (Saint Loui…
By Katie Foster, University of Georgia, United States Each year, the annual meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), known as the Conference of…
By Beatriz Lima Ribeiro, Indiana University Bloomington, United States In this essay, I explore the connection between two key global environmental forums: UNFCCC Conference of the Parties 28…
By Emily Hite, Saint Louis University, United States “Nature is a leader.” “Water is a victim.” “Gas is a fugitive.” These narratives were reiterated by politicians and indust…
By Bea Addis, Washington University in Saint Louis & Samara Brock, Yale University, United States. Focusing on both the location of this COP as a backdrop as well…
by Emilia Groupp, Stanford University, United States What if the solution to climate change was as easy as building giant space mirrors that reflect sunlight away from the…