Low expectations for Paris climate talks
On Monday 30 November, around 150 heads of state are expected to meet in Paris for twelve days for the 2015 climate change conference, also known as COP21.…
Tag: climate change
anthro in the news 11/9/2015
Enset is a survivor when other plants die. credit: DW/J. Brewer A traditional African food crop is money in the bank An article Deutsche Welle described the…
Anthropologies #21: Weather changes people: stretching to encompass material sky dynamics in our ethnography
This entry is part 10 of 10 in the Anthropologies #21 series. Heid Jerstad brings our climate change issue to a close with this thoughtful essay. Jerstad (BA…
Anthropologies #21: Global Warming is not a Crisis
This entry is part 9 of 9 in the Anthropologies #21 series. For the next installment of the anthropologies issue on climate change, we have a counterpoint essay…
Anthropologies #21: Betwixt and Between: Geological Phase Transition, Adaptive Co-Management, and Anthropology
This entry is part 8 of 8 in the Anthropologies #21 series. The next piece in the anthropologies climate change series comes from Michael Agar. His bio is…
Anthropologies #21: The Challenge of Motivated Reasoning: Science, Education, and Changing Climates
This entry is part 7 of 7 in the Anthropologies #21 series. Next up we have an essay about climate change and education from Joseph Henderson and David…
Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change
Over the past couple of days, I have come across a number of items pertaining to indigenous knowledge of, and responses to, climate change. Of course, climate change…
Anthropologies #21: Why do we need to teach climate change in anthropology?
This entry is part 6 of 6 in the Anthropologies #21 series. Our next installment in the climate change series comes from Katherine J. Johnson, who is currently…
Anthropologies #21: ‘Patabea se bariu’–Rethinking environmental change
This entry is part 5 of 5 in the Anthropologies #21 series. Our next essay comes from Elena Burgos-Martínez, who is currently completing her PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology…
Anthropologies #21: Is There Hope for an Anthropocene Anthropology?
Up next for this issue we have Todd Sanders and Elizabeth Hall. Sanders is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He has written extensively…
Anthropologies #21: Agricultural Adaptations and their Socio-Political Parameters: Social Responses to Climate Change in Ghana and South Sudan
The next installment for the anthropologies issue on climate change comes from Douglas La Rose. La Rose is the regional coordinator for the Agency for Technical Cooperation and…
Anthropologies #21: Annual Review of Anthropology, Climate Change, Anthropocene
To kick off this issue, we begin with Sean Seary’s excellent overview of recent literature about anthropology’s engagement with climate. This review originally appeared on Anthropology Rep…
Anthropologies #21: Climate Change Issue (Introduction)
For the latest issue of anthropologies, we’re taking a look at the ever contentious subject of climate change. Over the next week or so, we will be posting…
anthro in the news 8/3/15
Seeking Angelina lips The Globe and Mail reported on the growing use by women in Canada of cosmetic surgery, pointing to a look that is called “richface.” The…
Blog Update and Approaching Youth in Open Anthropology
Been doing some significant blog maintenance, trying to make the site look more like Anthropology 2.015. Finally updated the big list of Anthropology Blogs 2015. Please let me…
Annual Review of Anthropology, Climate Change, Anthropocene
This is a guest post by Sean Seary, a Hartwick College graduate interested in understanding human interactions with biological and social environments, and how anthropology can use that…
She prefers simplicity to paradoxes, answers to dilemmas
‘Yet, one cannot help being disturbed by the fuzzy utopianism and smug righteousness permeating Naomi Klein’s books.’ I’ve been reading Naomi Klein’s new book This Changes Everything…
Fossil addiction: Is there a road to recovery?
Published in Norwegian in Dagbladet, 30 October 2014 There is no shortage of knowledge about global environmental and climate problems. It is necessary, therefore, to ask: Why is…