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Anand Pandian posted an update in the group
Eco Anthropologists 2 years ago2 years ago (edited)
The EDC has some pretty deep roots in an anthropology department here in Baltimore. But it strikes me that it might be worthwhile to nurture a little dedicated space for anthropological exchanges within this network, most especially as the flames lap at our heels on #anthrotwitter and other such places. There’s so much to think on at…
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Jessie Croteau posted an update in the group
Eco Anthropologists a week agoRe-imagining Land – Living on Abandoned Land: Environment and Depopulation on the Azores
April 14 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Join the EDC and Anthropologist Tim Burger for a discussion about living on abandoned land!
More info here:…
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Re-imagining Land – Living on Abandoned Land: Environment and Depopulation on the Azores
Join the EDC and Tim Burger for a discussion about living on abandoned land! Residents of the Azores, a Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic, grapple with rapid demographic decline which has halved the population of several islands. My talk … Continue reading
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Anand Pandian posted an update in the group
Eco Anthropologists 2 weeks ago“This workshop revisits the past 150+ years of anthropological and ethnographic research on relationships among human lifeways, cultures, and environments. How can the errors and insights of earlier paradigms help us grapple with shifting, unpredictable ecologies today? Experts from Anthropology, History, Science Studies, Indigenous Studies,…
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Conference Announcement: “Environmental Anthropologies: Pasts, Presents, Futures”
The HAR editorial team is pleased to announce the program for HAR’s first conference, “Environmental Anthropologies: Pasts, Presents, Futures,” which will take place at Yale Unive…
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Anand Pandian posted an update in the group
Eco Anthropologists 11 months agoEco anthropology folks, hello! We’re doing a joint event this month with the EDC Book Club, talking with anthropologist Chloe Ahmann @Chloe about her new book on post-industrial futures in Baltimore, called Futures After Progress. Join us next Wednesday, May 29th at 11am, full details below, including suggested chapters and a link to the free…
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EDC Book Club: Futures After Progress by Chloe Ahmann
Please RSVP to join the EDC Book Club later this month for a discussion of Chloe Ahmann's new book, Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore. Cornell University anthropologist Chloe Ahmann will be joining us for the … Continue reading
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Fernando López Vega posted an update in the group
Eco Anthropologists a year agoJoin the EDC Eco Anthropologist Group for a conversation with
anthropologists Alyssa Paredes & Andrés León Araya about their new
edited series “Questioning Scale, Space, and Subjecthood,” along with
Nicole Labruto ( @Nicole ) and her contribution to this collection entitled
“Plantation Biology: Laboratory Methods for Knowing Plants.” This…
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Join the EDC Eco Anthropologist Group for a conversation with anthropologists Alyssa Paredes & Andrés León Araya about their new edited series "Questioning Scale, Space, and Subjecthood," along with Nicole Labruto and her contribution to this collection entitled "Plantation Biology: … Continue reading
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Here is the Introduction by Alyssa Paredes, Sophie Chao & Andrés León Araya
https://antipodeonline.org/2024/01/04/plantation-methodologies/
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And here is the essay by Nicole Labruto. Looking forward to our conversations!
https://antipodeonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/7_Labruto.pdf
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In preparation for our virtual meeting today, I am also attaching to this thread:
1) The text by Alyssa Paredes: Plantation Pachinko: Serious Games in/after the Agricultural Estate.
2) The contribution by María José Guillén-Araya & Andrés León Araya: The Specters of the Plantation in Central America.We are looking forward to our conversation!
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Anand Pandian posted an update in the group
Eco Anthropologists a year agoI finally read this 2016 essay by Lauren Berlant, “The Commons.” Many of you may have read it already. It’s dense, but worth reading on themes that would resonate with a lot of us. “This essay… proposes that the commons concept is a powerful vehicle for troubling troubled times. For the very scenes in which the concept attains power mark…
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A subtle chain of countless rings
The next unto the farthest brings;
The eye reads omens where it goes,
And speaks all languages the rose;
And, striving to be man, the worm
Mounts through all the spires of form.”
This article truly resonates so much with contemporary times!
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I’ve just started reading it, but I feel like this Berlant piece really complements another gem of an essay in an edited volume about media and technology that has held my attention ever since I came across it:
Jackson, Steven. 2014. “Rethinking Repair.” In Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society, edited by…- View 2 replies
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Anand Pandian posted an update in the group
Eco Anthropologists a year agoSuch a powerful experience to hear Munira Khayyat speak today at Johns Hopkins University about the lessons of her book on living through war in south Lebanon, A Landscape of War. On agricultural borderlands that are also battlefields, on the steadfast cultivation of life as war is waged against a landscape and its ecologies as much as…
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What worlds take root in war? In this book, anthropologist Munira Khayyat describes life along the southern border of Lebanon, where resistant ecologies thrive amid a terrain of perennial war. A Landscape of War takes us to frontline villages where … Continue reading
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Fernando López Vega posted an update in the group
Eco Anthropologists a year agoJoin the EDC Eco Anthropologist Group for a conversation with anthropologists Cymene Howe & Dominic Boyer about their new article “The Okjökull Memorial and Geohuman Relations.” This will be our second session in monthly meetings to discuss recent anthropologists’ publications on ecological issues. Join EDC curator Anand Pandian and …
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Join the EDC Eco Anthropologist Group for a conversation with anthropologists Cymene Howe & Dominic Boyer about their new article “The Okjökull Memorial and Geohuman Relations.” This will be our second session in monthly meetings to discuss recent anthropologists’ publications … Continue reading
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And here is the article in PDF format. Cheers!
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Anand Pandian posted an update in the group
Eco Anthropologists a year agoStarting soon, the first of many author conversations we’re planning, please join us!
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EDC Eco Anthropologists Group: Earth as Praxis by Jerome Whitington & Zeynep Oguz
Join the EDC Eco Anthropologist Group for a conversation with anthropologists Jerome Whitington & Zeynep Oguz about their recent article "Geology, Power, and the Planetary: Earth as Praxis." This will be our kickoff session in monthly meetings to discuss recent … Continue reading
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Fernando López Vega posted an update in the group
Eco Anthropologists a year agoa year ago (edited)
Join the EDC Eco Anthropologist Group for a conversation with anthropologists Jerome Whitington & Zeynep Oguz about their recent article Geology, Power, and the Planetary: Earth as Praxis. This will be our kickoff session in monthly meetings to discuss recent anthropologists’ publications on ecological issues. Join EDC curator Anand Pandian and…
community.ecodesigncollective.org
EDC Eco Anthropologists Group: Earth as Praxis by Jerome Whitington & Zeynep Oguz
Join the EDC Eco Anthropologist Group for a conversation with anthropologists Jerome Whitington & Zeynep Oguz about their recent article "Geology, Power, and the Planetary: Earth as Praxis." This will be our kickoff session in monthly meetings to discuss recent … Continue reading
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Cool! Will Jerome and Zeynep be beaming in?
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Here is the article in PDF format. And here the DOI https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-10746045
Cheers!
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