Review of Chloe Ahmann. 2024. Futures after progress: Hope and doubt in late industrial Baltimore
Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Trust is a fundamental—and almost definitory—principle of ethnographic cinema, operating in all phases of visual anthropological research, from shooting to post-production and dissemination. Although the issue of trust has always been implicitly…
This essay arises from an extended conversation between anthropology, cinema, and activism—from within the intricate weave that connects the making of images to the making of trust. It unfolds around the Stronger Family, a Black LGBTQIA+ collect…
This article explores the transformative potential of collaborative filmmaking in fostering trust, dialogue, and social transformation among women in Northern Cameroon. Against a backdrop of existential insecurity and patriarchal norms, the stud…
Trust in anthropology requires situated intersubjectivity and interdependency, emerging from relational contexts and transforming the people involved through performative acts. The act of trust is culturally, psychologically, and pragmatically i…
This article reflects on the ethical, political, and representational dilemmas of advocacy filmmaking and visual ethnography in humanitarian crises. It examines how film was used to advocate for a marginalised Sudanese refugee population in Erit…
In contexts of violence, the question of trust affects the very way we work, as anthropologists and filmmakers: What can we do? Are images capable of showing what is happening and enabling audiences to feel and understand it? Building on my expe…
Resilience is widely celebrated worldwide as a goal for ecosystems and human communities, and yet often lacks a critical, historically specific analysis of equity, specifically from Indigenous and rural standpoints. Without equity or history, resilienc…
In May 2018, the New Mexico Mining Commission (in the USA) held a public hearing regarding a permit revision that would allow the Mt. Taylor Uranium Mine to change its status from “standby” to “operating.” The New Mexico Environmental Law Center contes…
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Indigenous communities frequently face displacement due to conservation efforts. Consequently, much of the academic literature focuses on how indigenous communities resist such displacement. However, this article takes issue with this narrative, instea…
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 …
In Mexico, severe and pervasive water pollution has sparked on-going socio-environmental conflicts. Successive government administrations have failed to contemplate enhancing control particularly of industrial pollution sources. To what extent can thes…
Successive interventions in South Sumatra’s peat swamps including logging, transmigration, plantations, conservation, and restoration have led to changing land use permits, boundaries, canal systems, different land use classifications, and prohibitions…
This article complicates the dominant narratives of territorial conflicts between indigenous communities and mestizo campesinos in Nicaragua’s Bosawas Biosphere Reserve. I suggest that the framing of these conflicts as “interethnic” obscures how class …
Global South cities such as Old Dhaka face persistent challenges in providing basic urban services, including drinking water, sanitation, electricity, and waste disposal. Access to these services is unequal, with limited resources disproportionately di…
At the Lac Télé Community Reserve (LTCR)—the Republic of Congo’s only community-based protected area in the seasonally flooded Likouala swamp forests—conservation management remains tenuous: stable large-mammal populations, particularly the reserve’s r…
This article examines how land relations are reconfigured in Klerlweehtu District (KNU-administered territory) in Bago Region, Myanmar, where Karen communities face episodic ruptures amid armed conflicts between the State Administration Council (SAC) a…
El objetivo general de este texto es brindar un acercamiento a la dinámica de venta de productos naturales comestibles de origen prehispánico en un mercado semanal de la ciudad de Xalapa, Veracruz, México. El trabajo de campo fue realizado de marzo a j…
This article analyzes Argentina’s Law 26.639 on Minimum Standards for the Protection of Glaciers and the Periglacial Environment as a landmark case of pioneering environmental legislation and a result of socio-ecological mobilization. Through a politic…
Much of the knowledge anchoring political ecology continues to privilege Euro-American or Western epistemes. This article explores the opportunities and challenges of using local or indigenized scholarship to enrich political ecology in the Philippines…
Political ontology research has highlighted how the dominance of the Euro-modern ontology over other ontologies renders other-than-scientific knowledges as subordinate or untrue. Despite the commitment to base conservation efforts on Indigenous and loc…
This article examines Latin America’s critical contributions to global political ecology through concepts such as extractivism, ecological debt, ecologically unequal exchange, epistemic equity, body-territory, and political ontology. Drawing on decades…
El artículo analiza la genealogía teórica del concepto antropológico de cultura, identificando dos grandes patrones epistemológicos que han estructurado su desarrollo histórico: la tradición ilustrada y la tradición romántica. A partir de una reconstru…