Ethnography in the Fight
By David Bond, Associate Director, Center for the Advancement of Public Action, Bennington College Anthropologist David Bond at a Press Conference with Community Leaders in St. Croix, US…
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Tigers, Animality, and Dignity: A Journey Through the Central Indian Landscape
Amit Kaushik, Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia In 2008, a somber event unfolded in the heart of India as the local tiger population faced extinction in the…
“Value of a Bee’s Life”: Extractivism’s Confrontation with Honeybees and Rural Beekeeping
By Çağla Ay, Anthropology Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst “Are you aware of the value of bees for other species’ lives?” [Bir arının canlı yaşamı için ne kadar…
The Water of Our Gods: How Protecting a Psychedelic Cactus and Local Water Created a Popular Environmental Movement in Mexico
By Salvador Contreras § Havaiko’s safe return to his family was a stroke of luck. In a village nestled in the Wixárika Sierra of Western Mexico, Havaiko and…
Colonizing Mars or Colonizing the Earth? A Reflection on Landscape and SpaceX in Texas
By Robert Kopack, University of South Carolina § I was startled awake by a faint voice announcing something across the humid, coastal air. Maybe it was a shift…
Temporal Recalibrations: Learning to See in the Liminal Spaces of Post-Wildfire Landscapes
By Maya Daurio, University of British Columbia § “Welcome to another day in paradise,” said the man introducing that week’s visiting pastor to the congregation at the Poudre…
Reading the Assamese Folktale of Tejimola through an Inter-Species Lens: Understanding Life as a Verb instead of a Noun
By Paloma Bhattacharjee, National Museum Institute, New Delhi § The Capacity of Stories Burhi Aair Xadhu (loosely translated as Grandmother’s Tales) is a corpus of Assamese folktales coll…
“Radical Bricoleurs”: On Doing Science, Community Life, Activism and Bureaucracy in Mozambique
By Anselmo Matusse, University of Cape Town § One day I was walking with Mr. Angelo, 69 years old, a former Renamo soldier, demobilized in 1994, who is now…
The Sacrifice Zones of American “Energy Independence”: Pipeline and Refinery Expansion in the Chicago Region
By Graham Pickren, Roosevelt University § The United States is seemingly on its way to “energy independence.” Since the oil price increases and gas lines of the 1970s shocked…
Hurricane Bomb
By Rosa E. Ficek, University of Puerto Rico at Cayey § Nobody went outside. The outside world did not exist. There was no internet or television. The power had gone…
Poetry in the Anthropocene
By Autumn Sharp, University of Kent § I’ll only ask questions I don’t want to know the answers to “Jupiter’s gravity slings long-period comets out of harm’s way, while…