Water Politics Syllabus & Resources
We have been seeing some very interesting discussions and resources emerging around water politics recently. Image from “The Rights of the Whanganui River” (Peeps) In addition to the…
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Water Politics Syllabus & Resources
We have been seeing some very interesting discussions and resources emerging around water politics recently. Image from “The Rights of the Whanganui River” (Peeps) In addition to the…
Vulnerable Knowledge: DataRefuge and the Protection of Public Research
Judith Butler has written that “resistance is the mobilization of vulnerability,” arguing that precariousness animates action. This suggests that rather than a state of docile subjugation, vulnerabili…
An Anthropologist, a Climate Scientist, and a Geographer walk into NASA…
The joke introduces a recent news article describing a new project that brings together various scientists to study changing patterns of urbanization and land use in the Himalayan…
Web Roundup: Water by Lily Shapiro
Before I began graduate school, I worked in water-related public health, and have continued to follow the news around water. This month, some stories (mostly) about water. Trump…
CFP: Climate, Agriculture and Food Systems
A CFP of possible interest to our readers. Call for Abstracts/Papers for Special Issue: Climate, Agriculture and Food Systems Special Issue Editors: Gabrielle Roesch-McNally (USDA Climate Hubs, groesc…
Climate Change Resource for the Classroom
Leonardo Di Caprio has given open access to his environmental documentary on climate change. Entitled Before the Flood, Di Caprio wants to engender a sense of urgency regarding climate chang…
Climate Change Resource for the Classroom
Leonardo Di Caprio has given open access to his environmental documentary on climate change. Entitled Before the Flood, Di Caprio wants to engender a sense of urgency regarding climate chang…
Web Roundup: Public Health by Lily Shapiro
I assume everyone is, like me, tired of (and stressed out about) the US election, so let’s take a break from that to take a quick look around…
Can anthropology solve big problems? Imagining Margaret Mead’s response to climate change
Climate change is the nightmare that keeps me up at night. The consensus seems to be that the world will be significantly different within my children’s lifetimes. Many…
Brewing Disaster in Post-Earthquake Nepal
Climate change and global capital compound suffering for local communities. We are taking a short break from walking the narrow, steep paths around the Saipu Village of Ramechhap…
A planet afflicted by a high fever
The world is ‘overheated’. Too full and too fast; uneven and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity’s indelible mark upon the planet. In short,…
A planet afflicted by a high fever
The world is ‘overheated’. Too full and too fast; uneven and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity’s indelible mark upon the planet. In short,…
Amitav Ghosh – The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
This new title from Amitav Ghosh, one the world’s finest literary minds looks very interesting. More at U Chicago Press here. I’ve put a series of four lectures…
A Business for the Future? Redefining Value, Quinoa and the Quest of Pachakuti Foods w/ Alexander Wankel
We’re back in Peru! Join Adam and special guest Alexander Wankel of Pachakuti Foods for a conversation about the future of food production, agrobiodiversity, sustainability, and keeping traditio…
Conference Report: ‘Comment penser l’anthropocène?’ at Collège de France, Paris by Yannick van den Berg
November 5 & 6, 2015 – Conference Program and Videos The two-day conference ‘Comment penser l’anthropocène?’ (‘How to think the Anthropocene?’) at the Collège de France in Paris…
Confessions of a Reluctant Climate Project Collaborator
By Micha Rahder, Louisiana State University § Let me start with a confession: I never wanted to work on climate change. Laguna del Tigre National Park, Guatemala. Photo…
anthro in the news 1/4/16
Sidney Mintz: Founder of the anthropology of food Cultural anthropologist Sarah Hill, associate professor at Western Michigan University, published an article in the Boston Review detailing the work…
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…
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…
Anthropologist? You’re hired!
By Giulia Sinatti The stereotypical image of anthropologists as weird people studying local customs in odd corners of the globe could not be less accurate, according to speakers…
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…