Five communities around Lobeke National Park set up and mapping!
Since the last post we’ve conducted two fieldwork trips to Lobeke National Park. Fair to say it’s pretty out of the way – three days by 4X4 on…
Since the last post we’ve conducted two fieldwork trips to Lobeke National Park. Fair to say it’s pretty out of the way – three days by 4X4 on…
“I just looked at the land and started building”. Our group of guests from Norway and Finland in our NAPA project “empowering green transition from the grassroots” sits…
Climate Hegemony by Laurie Parsons draws on Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony to explain why governments and corporations have failed to take meaningful action on the climate crisis:…
The EU Nature Restoration Legislation was finally adopted in 2024, after going through the rounds of the EU parliament since 2022. The passing of the law marks a…
Figure 1. Zak Choukri holding a fig in Aïn Berda, Morocco (2019). Photo by author. A note from Mecca Howe, PhD: This blog article was written for an…
Amplify, a new book by Adam Met and Heather Landy, argues that the collective energy and sense of community created at live music events is a powerful force.…
Salt. That everyday thing we use to season our meals, relax our muscles, or make our icy roadways safer to traverse. Salt is an inescapable part of human…
Noah Walker-Crawford‘s The Climate Trial examines a groundbreaking case where a Peruvian farmer sued a German energy company over its contribution to climate harms impacting his livelihood. This…
An animated peanut with a bowler hat and a white beard sits on one side of a campfire, opposite three smaller peanuts grinning back at him adoringly. Amid…
When governments declare a climate “emergency,” they rarely name the real emergency at play – colonialism. Crisis-oriented language transforms centuries of dispossession, extraction, and ecological de…
Fragments on Trees & Ireland
By Simon Hoyte & Jerome Lewis The world is waking up to the deep connection between human, animal, plant, and environmental health. The concept of ‘One Health’, coined…
By Simon Hoyte & Jerome Lewis The world is waking up to the deep connection between human, animal, plant, and environmental health. The concept of ‘One Health’, coined…
In Rejkjavik, the well-known Finnish architect Alvar Aalto designed a beautiful house that is all about Nordic countries cooperation, the “Nordic House”. We had the honour to be…
Counihan, Carole, and Susanne Hojlund eds. Chefs, Restaurants and Culinary Sustainability. University of Arkansas Press, 2024. 392 pp. ISBN 9781682262658 Krishnendu Ray (NYU) How does one w…
In 2015, I was back in India’s capital city, Delhi after two years of fieldwork in villages in rural parts of the country. On my return, the city…
On 15 May 2025, Jason Hickel – economic anthropologist, leading degrowth theorist and author of popular works such as The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and…
An archaeologist who studies past farming practices in the north coast of Peru argues these offer models for navigating current climate crises. ✽ SEEING THE NORTH COAST of…
Amidst the proliferation of material technologies developed to solve the problems of planetary climate change and carbon emissions, the technoscientific community increasingly champions a new molecula…
By Sumin Myung, Cultural Anthropology, Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology…
By Sumin Myung, Cultural Anthropology, Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology…
The speaker in this broken sonnet form utters disobedience for structures that extract care in the Anthropocene. “Broken Sonnets for the Anthropocene” is part of the collection Poets…
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…