Tag: land
Ryan , October 9th, 2021
Aerial image of Bruce’s Beach park (highlighted in color), Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles. Adapted from Google Earth, 2021. On September 30, California Governor Gavin Newsome signed Senate Bill…
colinhoag , June 16th, 2020
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2019 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline…
Florian Jung , May 26th, 2020
Die chinesische Verfassung garantiert die Gleichberechtigung von Frauen und Männern. Einige Traditionen stehen dieser aber entgegen, so wurde Grundbesitz stets in männlicher Linie weitergegeben. Auch …
colinhoag , October 22nd, 2019
By Hannah Eisler Burnett, University of Chicago § This is a photo essay about the way people cultivate visions of speculative territory and historical landscapes. But in southern…
jeremy schmidt , January 14th, 2019
Nick Estes has been writing about Indigenous resistance at Standing Rock in powerful ways, so his new book coming in just over one month’s time is one I…
Alexandra Frankel , November 9th, 2018
In a climate of pervasive narratives of wealth creation and success, how can anthropology hold corporate and tech sectors to account? In March 2014, Business Insider published the…
jeremy schmidt , January 24th, 2018
I’m quite happy that some recent work of mine is now out in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers.[very happy to send copies to anybody with…
Irina Schmitz , March 18th, 2017
Auf der Suche nach Arbeit und Ausbildung verlassen viele Chinesen ihre ländliche Heimat und gehen in die großen Städte. Das ist für sie oft nicht einfach. Über…
Irina Schmitz , March 18th, 2017
Auf der Suche nach Arbeit und Ausbildung verlassen viele Chinesen ihre ländliche Heimat und gehen in die großen Städte. Das ist für sie oft nicht einfach. Über…
therezamiller , January 24th, 2017
By Julie Brugger, University of Arizona § Looking out across the arid, mesquite- and saguaro-studded landscape of the Tonto Basin District of the Tonto National Forest (TNF) in central…
Kai Fornahl , December 28th, 2016
Die chinesische Regierung hat den Transfer von Landnutzungsrechten weiter vereinfacht. Sie reagiert damit auf Probleme, die über die Jahre hinweg durch das System des kollektiv verfügten Ackerlandes e…
therezamiller , September 27th, 2016
By Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile § As are many other valleys in the southern Andean region of Chile, Coilaco was the setting of some of the last…
Maximilian C. Forte , September 26th, 2016
What is resource nationalism, and why is it important? One of Wikipedia’s shortest entries, “resource nationalism” nonetheless appears in 372 files published by WikiLeaks. Resource nationalism seems t…
colinhoag , May 31st, 2016
Angela Storey, University of Arizona § Milk crates are a common sight when walking the narrow paths of informal settlements in Khayelitsha, a Cape Town suburb where more…
Sean Miller , March 31st, 2016
Welcome back to In the Journals, our monthly recap of recent publications regarding security, law, crime, and governance. The upcoming April edition of Security Dialogue features a fantastic…
Human Economy Blog , August 29th, 2014
The Human Economy Programme invites you to attend the workshop Land, money and human relations in southern and central Africa:people’s economic strategies combining city and countryside Conv…