Ecological Design Collective | Eco Anthropologists | Activity https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/groups/eco-anthropologists/ Activity feed for the group, Eco Anthropologists. Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:54:39 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.15.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 15f24cfc9a41df585d728423bd6951ee Holden Turner posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: Hello all! Flooded Pine Press is re-issuing its call […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/7352/ Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:43:42 -0400 Hello all! Flooded Pine Press is re-issuing its call for pitch submissions for our debut series “Finding Joy and Solidarity in the Anthropocene”! Any and all EDCers are welcome to send us a pitch

*nudge nudge that EDC anthropologists and anthropology-minded folks are especially encouraged to submit something — a great space to test-drive…

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6cfe102323435280d3f7be5920f9a435 Jessie Croteau posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: Re-imagining Land – Living on Abandoned Land: Environment […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6823/ Wed, 09 Apr 2025 22:50:50 -0400 Re-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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353327911d63afe8a62aa94770889bfe Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: "This workshop revisits the past 150+ years […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/6801/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 03:53:17 -0400 “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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fdacaffe249b41c6f9628e38a9e0feea Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: Eco anthropology folks, hello! We're doing a joint […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/4553/ Tue, 21 May 2024 21:19:13 -0400

Eco 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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ba420f7ef2347a91368f9d927ca2c296 Fernando López Vega posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: Join the EDC Eco Anthropologist Group for a […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/4387/ Tue, 16 Apr 2024 00:22:14 -0400 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 ( @Nicole ) and her contribution to this collection entitled
Plantation Biology: Laboratory Methods for Knowing Plants.” This…

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456ce589560704f452441b4648dfe5c6 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: I finally read this 2016 essay by Lauren Berlant, […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/4278/ Wed, 20 Mar 2024 02:21:08 -0400 I 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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16bdee89e706385711539495d63ecd47 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: Such a powerful experience to hear Munira Khayyat […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/4238/ Tue, 12 Mar 2024 22:06:56 -0400 Such 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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29ddf62775d688c7654b4bd58ae9668e Fernando López Vega posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: Join the EDC Eco Anthropologist Group for a […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/4217/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 16:26:31 -0500 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 on ecological issues. Join EDC curator Anand Pandian and …

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62004d9cd1c3630372b579a11d7a11a1 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: Starting soon, the first of many author conversations […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/4174/ Mon, 26 Feb 2024 16:54:21 -0500 Starting soon, the first of many author conversations we’re planning, please join us!

https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/event/edc-eco-anthropologists-group-earth-as-praxis-by-jerome-whitington-zeynep-oguz/

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20ec50290ef426289348de045fbc0f19 Fernando López Vega posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: Join the EDC Eco Anthropologist Group for a […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/4108/ Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:18:52 -0500 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…

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ecd094b12b9efec0986e8d2fff9d9870 Fernando López Vega posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: Hello Eco Anthropologists,My name is Fernando López Vega. […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/4026/ Thu, 01 Feb 2024 16:55:06 -0500 Hello Eco Anthropologists,

My name is Fernando López Vega. I am a third-year Ph.D. student in Anthropology at Johns Hopkins. I was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. I earned a BA in Anthropology and an MSc in Geography at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. For my master’s, I wrote a dissertation about gold and “coltan” mining in the Upper…

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17920aa932a0e2e7eb5d65991ae48530 Fernando López Vega edited the doc People to discuss new work with in 2024 in the group Eco Anthropologists https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/3866/ Tue, 16 Jan 2024 23:44:50 -0500 893ac40de6f357753b6d49bd63ed1ef8 Fernando López Vega edited the doc People to discuss new work with in 2024 in the group Eco Anthropologists https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/3813/ Fri, 05 Jan 2024 19:05:28 -0500 9c75f181123f6704cd4fdf222406d8ac Fernando López Vega edited the doc People to discuss new work with in 2024 in the group Eco Anthropologists https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/3774/ Thu, 21 Dec 2023 20:59:32 -0500 afeb3c912da97ab41cc979cc352127f9 Anand Pandian created the doc People to discuss new work with in 2024 in the group Eco Anthropologists https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/3773/ Thu, 21 Dec 2023 20:58:51 -0500 322c88f61fc23a796e1e7a4f0688bd46 Michael Degani posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: Back in June I attended a workshop on anthropology […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/3694/ Sun, 03 Dec 2023 19:58:34 -0500 Back in June I attended a workshop on anthropology and degrowth at the LSE. We all collectively wrote up some of our discussions which have now been published here. A lot of creative forward thinking stuff imo! https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2023/10/26/anthropology-and-degrowth-where-to-next/

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56bf793c01b5be87f66b8fbb36f9f752 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: Hoping we can use this space to share writing and […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/3611/ Wed, 22 Nov 2023 15:55:35 -0500 Hoping we can use this space to share writing and other work. In that spirit, here’s a short piece that @Nicole and I co-wrote with Eric Jackson of the Black Yield Institute here in Baltimore, reflecting on the challenges of developing ethical modes of collaboration between activist organizations and university enterprises often imperialist…

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435a3f86b48fe1cd6fb756a0ceb11214 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: Read this and thought of the aaa-to-zzz's you posted on, […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/3537/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 02:42:16 -0500 Read this and thought of the aaa-to-zzz’s you posted on, @Chloe “This isn’t just about seeking exit from the turmoil of a modern, connected existence, nor is it merely about recharging our batteries so that we can absorb yet more political polarisation, toxic social media or climate catastrophe. It is also about engaging in a social policy of…

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9f472f0c3bfe24cbb1fe72deefd46d25 Chloe Ahmann posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: join us for an experiment in radical rest and serious […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/3521/ Mon, 13 Nov 2023 16:23:42 -0500 join us for an experiment in radical rest and serious play coming at you from inside the aaa: the zzz is an attempt to conference differently. featuring a sewing salon, nap-in, and more goodies – this week in toronto. https://www.nopanelsjustvibes.com

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be290bcd0cb6e179c4e1c8af6dc4526e Michael Degani posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: Hey Eco-Anthropologists, see if this bit of cheese […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/3133/ Mon, 13 Nov 2023 05:49:24 -0500 Hey Eco-Anthropologists, see if this bit of cheese might tempt you out to the kitchen!

CFP: The Many Ethnographic Faces of the Parasite – Cambridge University, March 14 2024

Drawing on an improbable mix of philosophy, folklore, theology, communications theory, and behavioral ecology, Michel Serres (1982) offered a theory of the Parasite as…

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6f04f775bbf2f9597a7289bd59aabfc3 Michael Degani posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: This, as much as anything else, seems to me to intuit […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/2545/ Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:59:38 -0400 This, as much as anything else, seems to me to intuit the potential of a
platform like this one for anthropology. Boyer and Howe, Lateral
Theory.

But our final point is that even though the “content” of anthropological theory is rapidly transitioning to lateralist aesthetics that we should not be too quick to congratulate ourselves.The…

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7c29cb034c6e3e29d05f3056d6b9730f Jonas Johnson posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: More interesting Degrowth […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/3200/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 18:03:10 -0400 More interesting Degrowth anthropology conversations:

https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/111215628622969843

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066485d597baaa2f93a5bd268b0403b0 Jonas Johnson posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: Following Mike's lead, here's a grad conference at […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/3187/ Tue, 10 Oct 2023 19:57:58 -0400 Following Mike’s lead, here’s a grad conference at the EnviroLab at Penn:

Elemental Thinking: Troubling States of Matter
https://www.pennenvirolab.org/conference

The approach to study environmental systems and change through the classical elements – fire, earth, water, and air – has been formative to the composition of environmental studies and…

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e629ac7226ca300e8458e5f70aae01b5 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: A wonderful new piece by one of my favorite […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/2345/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 14:59:14 -0400 A wonderful new piece by one of my favorite anthropologists, Ashanté Reese. Writing in the register of speculative worldmaking, tacking between actual fieldnotes of the recent past and possible fieldnotes from future centuries, thinking closely with Octavia Butler and Lauren Olamina. “What if our ways of naming, documenting, capturing,…

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92e1e4763a199fe6ee0402efd5038b2e Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: An Ethnography of Global Environmentalism: Becoming […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1962/ Thu, 25 May 2023 22:21:05 -0400 An Ethnography of Global Environmentalism:
Becoming Friends of the Earth

The Royal Anthropological Institute is pleased to present ‘Reviewer meets Reviewed’, a discussion between author Dr Caroline Gatt (University of Graz) and reviewer Professor Stewart Barr (University of Exeter).

Based on nine years of research, this is the first book…

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51fb99bebea9226192cdff44dbda58bb Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: https://www.sapiens.org/culture/anthropology-amazon-warehouse-workers/ https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1943/ Thu, 25 May 2023 01:41:56 -0400 https://www.sapiens.org/culture/anthropology-amazon-warehouse-workers/

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aab7e7e6f8973f72a790d7fa6fd9f237 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: “These writings show that perhaps the “subjective” […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1847/ Sat, 06 May 2023 16:09:31 -0400 “These writings show that perhaps the “subjective” truth of elders can exist in tandem with the “objective” nature of anthropology. We need to remember the ancestors were scientists and that anthropology can be sacred.”

https://www.sapiens.org/language/poetry-indigenizing-anthropology/

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cccf41acf3aba865b7b13ef934ffb15a Michael Degani posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: With their permission, I'm going to be livestreaming […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1806/ Tue, 02 May 2023 05:22:21 -0400 With their permission, I’m going to be livestreaming the following Masterclass at Cambridge to our little group. Friday May 12, 10am BST. Tune in to this group’s video room.

Join us for a Masterclass seminar with Professors Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe (Rice University) where they will discuss several of the collaborative,…

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a0968228127fd907bf5550208997faa4 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: This podcast convo on “possibility” went live earlier […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1751/ Fri, 21 Apr 2023 13:06:13 -0400 This podcast convo on “possibility” went live earlier this year, might be interesting to some of you. I was talking with George Paul Meiu of the University of Basel, thinking about creative and pragmatic openings for anthropology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT73nhogUKk

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6951f1d3efb889482e9568a91d1fb76b Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: Hi everyone, please join us on Wednesday for a […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1610/ Mon, 27 Mar 2023 21:41:13 -0400 Hi everyone, please join us on Wednesday for a conversation between anthropologist Kristine Roome @kroome and South African artist Mbongeni Buthelezi, featured artist at the 2022 UN climate summit, and the maker of extraordinary work with discarded plastic waste. I’m really excited for this conversation, hope others can join in. The event…

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31330a87995c50f82cc845cea8f89a99 Michael Degani posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: A couple of links/discussion topics we covered today in […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1559/ Thu, 16 Mar 2023 16:22:28 -0400

A couple of links/discussion topics we covered today in our reading group (links in comments below). Thanks @anand, @fisch, Jun.

Concrete and glass steel towers are an unholy combination of “prospect and refuge.” What about shaded, climactically sensitive intermediary forms, particularly (tropical?) modernist ones that nevertheless preceded…

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305b65266672f4b63c2645733c72113d Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: This essay by architectural historian Daniel Barber […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1537/ Wed, 15 Mar 2023 03:45:56 -0400 This essay by architectural historian Daniel Barber is pretty amazing, on designing against comfort and for discomfort. Can’t wait for this discussion on Wednesday. Thanks @Mike !

This is the role for architecture: architects can design for discomfort in order to make discomfort desirable – to find pleasure in a new causal chain, one that starts…

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5c5831f0a53454510f9ac5298d60e426 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: An interesting reflection on the slow implosion of […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/1005/ Fri, 23 Dec 2022 02:54:51 -0500 An interesting reflection on the slow implosion of Twitter, the cultivation of online community, and resources for fields like anthropology. “Should we all just jump ship and find new platforms? All this has me thinking, once again, about the need for not just making new spaces, but also holding and using the spaces we…

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46fc42631f28ad53ebc4bf41026c15b1 Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Eco Anthropologists: The EDC has some pretty deep roots in an […] https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/880/ Tue, 06 Dec 2022 04:02:07 -0500 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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1c76c8354da91522346e446b6d97528c Anand Pandian created the group Eco Anthropologists https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/timeline/p/854/ Sat, 03 Dec 2022 22:34:48 -0500 0