Tag: climate crisis
fstammle , August 14th, 2021
related to the recent post about the forest fires in Siberia, here I share some footage from local people. This is not official news, it’s private people’s videos,…
Todd Meyers , February 15th, 2021
This book forum brings together seven scholars to discuss Julie Livingston’s Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa (Duke 2019), a story of what grows alongside “…
Nausheen Anwar , July 2nd, 2020
Amidst almost unstoppable contagion, many hung their hopes on heat and humidity as a potential defence against contracting Covid-19 in the early months of the pandemic. Early studies…
Whitney Arey , July 1st, 2020
As I was thinking about the task of reviewing the anthropological, bioethical, and/or STS implications of the past month of news, my mind kept returning to the introduction…
Rebecca_Irons , April 23rd, 2020
HACER GÖREN Contrary to the once dominant optimism among the public that “Turkey is safe and secure”, COVID-19 has not skipped Turkey either. Yes, it is a single…
Rose Deller , July 17th, 2019
In Theory for the World to Come: Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer argues that speculative fiction offers a rich vein to theorise catastrophe and crisis in ways t…
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Peter B Campbell , November 9th, 2017
A major new report states unequivocally that humans are changing the planet. Archaeology puts those changes into context – and explains why action is crucial The United States…