Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
If constructed as planned, the Sites Reservoir Project will add roughly 1.85 billion m3 (1.5 million acre-feet) of storage capacity to California’s water system. Per project proponents, however, the reservoir complex should be understood as infrastruct…
This article examines the role of working people in the energy transition that played out in Puerto Rico in the 1930s and 1940s – from a private, fossil fuel-based regime to a public, hydroelectric system. It argues that by withholding their labo…
For many, the coal industry in Colombia has been synonymous with progress, economic growth and access to education and housing opportunities on the Caribbean mining frontier. However, little has been said about the slow, dosed and silent violence that …
The most recent Global Mercury Assessment estimates that human-made mercury releases are approximately 2,220 tons per year and that a significant source is artisanal and small-scale gold mining (UNEP 2019). The ubiquity of mercury and its negative effe…
As awareness grows of the catastrophic implications of global environmental change, multiple scholarly fields addressing health-environment relationships have advocated ‘transformative’ educational strategies. Holistic Indigenous health-environment mod…
En este artículo se analizan los procesos de conflictividad frente a las desigualdades para el caso chileno, enfocándose en su dimensióń socioecológica. Muestra resultados de una investigación cualitativa de cuatro años realizada en 5 territorios som…
En Colombia, la expansión de la frontera cocalera y la política antinarcóticos han estado atravesadas por diferentes tipos e intensidades de violencia. Entre la prolífica literatura producida recientemente, menos estudiadas se encuentran las violencias…
This article examines 16 environmental conflicts across the Arctic that demonstrate resistance to both climate and green extractive colonialisms. Resistance movements counter green-labelled developments, such as a 350 km road project in Ambler (Alaska)…
This article examines the different forms of structural, everyday, and symbolic violence brought about by the sweeping expansion of agribusiness in Paraguay over the past few decades. This discussion is framed around the protest slogan of the organized…
El arte escultórico de la mujer actual estaría repleto de símbolos de transformación concernientes a un proceso evolutivo de la psique designado por C. G. Jung como camino de individuación con sus distintas etapas que nos iniciarían en una e…
Climate crises and other manifestations of environmental degradation are inextricably linked to the universalizing technoscientific paradigm underpinning capitalist industrialization and modernization. This study aimed to problematize the modern/coloni…
The impacts of the coronavirus pandemic in the small central Appalachian town of Rainelle, West Virginia cannot be understood separately from the broader human-environment relationships of this place. These relationships are grounded in landscapes that…
Zinc is a green mineral that is increasingly required for manufacturing low-carbon technology. This demand has been promoted mainly by the Global North-led green policies to mitigate the impacts of climate change. However, simultaneously expanding zinc…
Several governmental and nongovernmental institutions in Guatemala have been tasked with tackling the country’s problem of food insecurity. Although food insecurity has a variety of causes, the issue of climate change is beginning to attract initiative…
Mexico City’s municipal “green” bonds (MGBs), issued in 2016 and 2018, financed two water infrastructure projects embedded in the city’s hydrosocial cycle (the reciprocal transformation of water and society). The issuance of the MGBs created an entangl…
La realidad del ser humano se construye a través de sus percepciones. Y estas percepciones quedan condicionadas por la realidad que exponen los medios de información. Comprender su formación es entender la cosmovisión de nuestra cultura. Est…
This article describes the ecological accounts of Jñato and Hñähñu (also known as Mazahua and Otomi) people who inhabit a territory that is today the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in México. We draw on their narratives, documented through a multi…
En este artículo se exploran algunas de las respuestas solidarias que, en la infancia y la juventud, se están poniendo en marcha para afrontar la estigmatización y las violencias de carácter transfóbico que tienen lugar particularmente en lo…
Este artículo pretende contribuir a los estudios humano-animales, más concretamente a los centrados en la relación canino-humana, con las aportaciones de una investigación etnográfica multiespecie sobre la conformación y características del …
This paper utilizes a Foucauldian approach to shed light on the claim that power relations are complex and dynamic, underlying neoliberal conservation mechanisms. Despite the ascendance of the Foucauldian governmentality lens to deconstruct neoliberal…
The Colombian Amazon has experienced rapid forest loss in the past decades due to growing colonization, infrastructure development, and commercial agriculture expansion. While much of the analyses of deforestation in the Amazon have been in Brazil, the…
Con este artículo se muestra que hay una manera diferente de aproximarse al estudio de los territorios desde la experiencia de las mujeres. Para ello, se recuperaron entrevistas narrativas dirigidas a recoger información sobre las dimensione…
El artículo analiza los comentarios que suscitó un nacimiento de carácter social instalado en la Plaça de la Vila de Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona) el año 2021. Se utilizó una metodología inductiva clasificando en siete categorías los dife…
En los últimos tiempos ha habido un amplio y reiterado discurso político incluyente de la diversidad social. En tiempos de pandemia curiosamente aparece una postura única global y hegemónica. Un discurso y unas medidas que la mayoría de la p…