Air Conditioners and Other Bad Environmental Objects 

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This piece is part of a collection of Anthropology News articles on Climate Governance. Click here to read other articles in the collection. “In the past, a lot of money for capacity building has been spent on foreign consultants who fly in for a week and stay at five-star, air-conditioned hotels.” The audience, a group of environmental professionals, academics, […]

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Social Fires in Belém do Pará

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COP30 beyond the Documents This piece is part of a collection of Anthropology News articles on Climate Governance. Click here to read other articles in the collection. 20 November 2025. The eve of the final day of COP30 in Belém do Pará. The heat was intense. I was in the Country Pavilion in the Blue Zone, an area reserved […]

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The Second Círio

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This piece is part of a collection of Anthropology News articles on Climate Governance. Click here to read other articles in the collection. Since 1995 world leaders have descended each year on a chosen city to discuss the fate of the biosphere at the annual “Conference of the Parties” to the UN Framework Convention on […]

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Anthropology at the “Sites” of Climate Governance

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This piece is the introduction to a collection of Anthropology News articles on Climate Governance. Click here to read other articles in the collection. As a graduate student attending a climate meeting for the first time, I did not know what to expect. I hustled down a street in Katowice, Poland, in the early morning […]

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Pratiques ethnographiques, pratiques langagières

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Appel à propositions de la revue Ethnographiques.org

Date limite de soumission : 08/01/2027

Coordination : Grégoire Andréo, Université d’Helsinki, Roxanne Comotti, Kone Foundation, Université Grenoble Alpes, University of Helsinki, Anaïs Leblon, Université Paris 8, LAVUE-Alter et Paul Sorrentino, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, CASE

En quoi l’ethnographie et les savoirs qu’elle produit sont-ils façonnés par le fait qu’elle est une méthode d’enquête fondée, entre autres,[…]

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Appels à contribution

Call for papers

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Dear Colleagues!

The CAES editorial team welcomes your submissions for CAES Vol. 12, No. 3, scheduled for publication in the second half of December 2026.

CAES Vol. 12, № 3

Alexander Akulov Published: Categories: English

Editor’s foreword  Articles The hieroglyphic writing system of the Ryazan-Oka burial grounds technocomplex Yelena Desherieva, Yelena Kolesnikova The Ryazan-Oka burial grounds technocomplex (ROBGT) features artifacts with inscriptions representing a fully developed logographic writing system. Crucial to decoding this writing system is a graffiti on a buckle depicting sexual intercourse accompanied by a two-sign inscription: a […]

What The System Leaves Behind

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The story of four boys, one wrongful accusation, and a cycle of violence that outlasted every attempt to stop it. It was still hot outside when Luis Alberto Quiñonez—whom everyone called Sito—reached Grant Avenue, in San Francisco’s Chinatown, around 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, September 8, 2019. His girlfriend Arianna’s mother had been evicted that day, […]

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What Death Leaves Behind: The Social Afterlife of HIV Mortality in Tanzania

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Global health often treats death as the endpoint of disease. Mortality marks the conclusion of an epidemic, the final outcome in surveillance reports, and the measure against which interventions are evaluated. Yet during fieldwork in the wards of Buguruni and Vingunguti in Dar es Salaam, where many families live with the enduring consequences of poverty […]

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Who has the right to the forest? Multispecies political ecology and the contestation of legitimacies in the Bukit Tigapuluh Forest Landscape, Tebo, Indonesia

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The Bukit Tigapuluh forest landscape in Tebo, Indonesia, has become an arena of contestation involving indigenous peoples, migrant communities, corporations, NGOs, the state, and non-human species. This study examines how competing claims over forests …

Zur Berechenbarkeit von Umwelten

Martina Klausner Published: Categories: German

Die Digitalisierung prägt zunehmend, wie Umwelten im Klimawandel erkannt und regiert werden. Dieses Editorial entwickelt den Begriff der environmental computability (Berechenbarkeit von Umwelten), um jene sozio-materiellen Bedingungen zu beschreiben, u…

Being Granular, Becoming Sustainable:

Martina Klausner Published: Categories: German

Dieser Artikel untersucht die Integration von Digitalisierung und Umweltbelangen in der digitalen Landwirtschaft. Er geht den Fragen nach: Was bedeutet eine solche Integration für die Akteure, die die digitale Landwirtschaft entwickeln, und wie gestalt…

Verflechtungen der Nachhaltigkeit in Dhaka

Martina Klausner Published: Categories: German

Dieser Artikel untersucht, auf welche Weise technologische Initiativen, die zur Nachhaltigkeit menschlichen Lebens in Dhaka, Bangladesch, beitragen sollen, mit sozialen, wirtschaftlichen und ökologischen Problemlagen verflochten sind, für die es im be…

Pennsylvania, Data Centers, and Challenging Myths of America and Anthropology

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As the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of its independence, members of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the government are rewriting and weaponizing history, narrowing the definition of who and what counts as American. Amid the celebrations, our team completed two years of fieldwork in Pennsylvania exploring the myths and realities of data […]

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