Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
This is the Capitalocene, an age characterised by death derived from capitalism’s endless accumulation, growth, and resource exploitation. In the Capitalocene, policies dedicated to climate change mitigation are intertwined with a capitalist logic, per…
Debates about energy transition mostly focus on national policies and socioeconomic and environmental benefits; however, these processes occur in particular communities where energy transition projects have material and symbolic consequences. This arti…
Debates about energy transition mostly focus on national policies and socioeconomic and environmental benefits; however, these processes occur in particular communities where energy transition projects have material and symbolic consequences. This arti…
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This article challenges dominant conservation discourses that frame nature as pristine and separate from humans, critiquing the wilderness paradigm informing Third World environmental planning. While scientific discourses promote holistic planetary vis…
This article challenges dominant conservation discourses that frame nature as pristine and separate from humans, critiquing the wilderness paradigm informing Third World environmental planning. While scientific discourses promote holistic planetary vis…
Scholars have convincingly proposed understanding processes of tidal flooding and subsidence as questions of environmental justice: they form part of a politics of uneven urbanization, with those most responsible for causing subsidence suffering least …
Scholars have convincingly proposed understanding processes of tidal flooding and subsidence as questions of environmental justice: they form part of a politics of uneven urbanization, with those most responsible for causing subsidence suffering least …
Conservation practices in the twenty-first century are facing a critical reckoning as global biodiversity loss, climate disruption and social inequalities expose the limitations of exclusionary, top-down approaches. Nowhere is this more evident than in…
Conservation practices in the twenty-first century are facing a critical reckoning as global biodiversity loss, climate disruption and social inequalities expose the limitations of exclusionary, top-down approaches. Nowhere is this more evident than in…
This article examines the role of plants shaping the political ecology (PE) of the conservation of the Andean páramos in the Sumapaz Region in Colombia. Due to their rich biodiversity and role in the water cycle, páramos have gained major importance in…
This article examines the role of plants shaping the political ecology (PE) of the conservation of the Andean páramos in the Sumapaz Region in Colombia. Due to their rich biodiversity and role in the water cycle, páramos have gained major importance in…
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The “slow violence” arising from mining tailings in Chile spreads cumulatively, slowly and invisibly over time and space. Even those affected are not necessarily aware of it. Toxic substances, which tailings contain in high concentrations, spread easil…
The “slow violence” arising from mining tailings in Chile spreads cumulatively, slowly and invisibly over time and space. Even those affected are not necessarily aware of it. Toxic substances, which tailings contain in high concentrations, spread easil…
This article explores how different forms of adaptation governance in Costa Rica shape subjectivities and adaptation capacities in smallholder farms. The country presently has a neoliberal-welfare state structure that stems from the progressive transit…
The looming ecological crisis demands an urgent rethinking of possibilities within our surroundings. This article examines the practice of bamboo-shoot fermentation in India’s North-Eastern Region (NER) and explores its connections to sustainability, f…
The special issue Post-growth food systems for a just social-ecological transition within planetary boundaries explores post-growth and degrowth approaches that advocate for sufficiency, care, regeneration, and the democratization of food systems. It s…
This article draws upon multispecies ethnographic fieldwork with the Maya Ixil in Iximulew (Guatemala) to identify a model of biodiversity conservation that decolonizes food systems in situ through biocultural practices of care work with more-than-huma…
The Spinetta Marengo chemical plant, located in the city of Alessandria, Piedmont, is one of the most important industrial facilities still operating in northern Italy. Now almost 120 years old, it is the only perfluorinated compounds (PFAS) factory in…