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…
Tag: climate change
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…
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.…
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…