Coal, Care, and Climate change: When Things Remember What People Forget
As the US moves toward greener energy futures, how we remember coal – or do not – has significant implications for how …
Knowledge Production, Toxic Corporate Capital, and the Anthropologist’s Entangled Ethics
The dominant disciplinary literature on cultures and practices of extractivism relies on a separation of “the field,” and the insights gained there, …
Felix Lussem: Alienating “facts” and uneven futures of energy transition
We are in the middle of the Rhineland’s lignite mining region, a semi-urban to rural area in the west of Germany. The …
Mercury’s Toxic Touch
In Peru’s gold-rich Amazonian region of Madre de Dios (the Mother of God), the global demand for the precious metal has incentivized …
#Reviews: Fires of Gold
As of 2019, Ghana is the country with the largest gold-mining industry in Africa, overtaking South Africa, after two South African gold …
Rio Tinto: the Highest stage of rampant plunder Capitalism of the very worst kind
by Calla Wahlquist @callapilla Rio Tinto blasts 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site to expand iron ore mine Mining company was given permission to blast …
Bougainville Independence in 10 Days to shake the world…
A long time coming, it is likely that Bourgainville will be independent – and still may or may not reopen the mine …
The ruins of a mining economy, by Danny Hoffman
Still from the film Uppland Around the 23-minute mark in the short film, Uppland, an unidentified voice speaks over a series of …
This Is Not a Goldmine: Capital, Conservation, and the Politics of Recruitment in the Deep Bismarck Sea
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2018 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. …
Bodies of Flesh and Ore: Geosocial Formation of Miners and Metal in Highland Bolivia
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2018 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. …
Commentary: Toxic Bodies, Part II
By Kristina Lyons, University of California, Santa Cruz § The president of the communal action committee whom I call Doña Marta ushered me …
Eeva Kesküla: How capitalists think about labor dynasties and corporate ethics
This contribution looks at the implications of how capitalists think about corporate ethics and moral obligations in monoindustrial towns. I present the …
On Contamination: Conservation Science in Devilish Landscapes
By Meredith Root-Bernstein, Institut National de Recherche Agronomique, Grignon, France § When you first see the gold mine in Alhué you are impressed …
Yellow Water: Rupture and Return One Year after the Gold King Mine Spill
Figure 1. A view of Animas Creek taken one year after the August 2015 Gold King Mine spill that discharged three million …
Zambia’s political crisis is not just about democracy
Check out my latest piece on the ongoing Zambian political crisis, published today in Al Jazeera English. Here are some extracts: “[Zambia] …
Good Earth: Exploring the Old Lead Belt
Figure 1. Park Hills, Missouri, 120 Buckley Street. The entire street borders the Desloge Chat Pile, which has been remediated by the …
Arctic Voices: Expectations, Narratives and the Realities of Living with Extractive industries: new publication
Arctic Voices: Expectations, Narratives and the Realities of Living with Extractive industries in the Far North (Edited by Emma Wilson and Florian …
ECAS2015 Panel: Social and Political Mobilisation in Mining Communities in Southern and Central Africa
Miles Larmer (Oxford) and Vito Laterza (UCT) will convene a panel on “Social and Political Mobilisation in Mining Communities in Southern and …
ECAS2015 Panel: Social and Political Mobilisation in Mining Communities in Southern and Central Africa
Miles Larmer (Oxford) and Vito Laterza (UCT) will convene a panel on “Social and Political Mobilisation in Mining Communities in Southern and …
ECAS2015 Panel: Social and Political Mobilisation in Mining Communities in Southern and Central Africa
Miles Larmer (Oxford) and Vito Laterza (UCT) will convene a panel on “Social and Political Mobilisation in Mining Communities in Southern and …
ECAS2015 Panel: Social and Political Mobilisation in Mining Communities in Southern and Central Africa
Miles Larmer (Oxford) and Vito Laterza (UCT) will convene a panel on “Social and Political Mobilisation in Mining Communities in Southern and …
Transience and immigration in the Svalbard Archipelago
ArcticAnthropology is proud to present a guest blog from Ben Corwin on life, migration and relation to the environment on one of …
HEP Workshop "Land, Money and Human Relations in Southern and Central Africa" 5-6 September 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 …