Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
En un museo de Anatomía Humana de una universidad pública de la República Argentina, se encuentra una colección de preparados anatómicos, modelos, maquetas, e imágenes técnicas sobre el cuerpo humano en distintos soportes materiales, distribuidos en …
Este artículo discute las formas de hacer cine y de mostrar las relaciones entre el campo y la ciudad a partir de la conceptualización de una estética espiral en el trabajo documental de Iván Molina y Miguel Hilari. La noción de economía visual resul…
A lo largo de las últimas dos décadas se expandió de forma considerable el enfoque de la primera persona sobre los archivos visuales, audiovisuales, gráficos o escritos en el cine documental argentino. Los films de y con archivos ofrecen estrategias …
En México, el cine hecho por mujeres de pueblos originarios se encuentra cada vez más presente en el paisaje. Aunque no es un fenómeno reciente, sí es uno en constante transformación, estrechamente vinculado a cómo se ha instituido el reconocimiento …
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Despite ongoing institutional reforms to mitigate longstanding bottlenecks in natural resource governance, persistent legal pluralism complicates and constrains such efforts in Africa. This is evident in post-independen…
Indigenous peoples have acted across a wide range of fields to address climate change. In all contexts they encounter the barriers of established colonial relations of land and state sovereignty. Indigenous-centred agendas are defined in articulation, …
Australian First Nations people are playing an increasingly important role in climate litigation relating to the approval of greenhouse gas emission (GHG) projects, with several important cases handed down in the last few years. Here we discuss three r…
The Aboriginal land estate in NSW is uniquely vulnerable to the physical risks of climate change and this jeopardises the rights and interests of First Nations peoples. This paper presents the findings of research and knowledge exchange between a cross…
Training and employment will be a key determinant of whether the socio-economic position of First Nations peoples is improved through the energy transition, but there are few studies on how to increase First Nations employment in renewable energy. Our …
The NSW Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 created a network of Local Aboriginal Land Councils (LALCs) to receive returned lands and establish Aboriginal enterprises that bolstered economic security for Aboriginal people. The restituted Aboriginal land es…
A new approach to energy transition governance is necessary, one that is inclusive of First Nations on whose land the energy transition will occur. In this short position paper, we elaborate upon the concept of green energy statecraft (GES), a new appr…
InVisible Culture
Natural capital approaches to mitigating the impacts of construction projects, in which environmental harms and mitigations are calculated and then traded, have become dominant features of contemporary conservation. They are subject to considerable cri…
In this article, we examine how political ecology can benefit from greater engagement with green criminology’s focus on harms. We do so by developing a harms-based political ecology, which is a useful lens through which to analyze global environmental …
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A vast body of literature has established how armed conflicts and wars are harmful to the environment, and it is generally assumed that peace should be beneficial to it. This article investigates the understudied environmental and energy discourse and …
Teaching Anthropology
Undergraduates are coming of age in increasingly perilous times. Anthropology’s hallmark use of ethnography offers much for teaching in this moment, through its capacity to navigate uncertainty, foster understanding across differences, centre empathy a…
In this article, two university professors explore what it means to teach anti-colonial and anti-racist anthropological theory and ethnographic methods to graduate students at an American Land Grant University and predominantly white institution (PWI) …
In this article, I describe how teaching anthropology in polarizing times can potentially impact instructors. Using Florida as an example, I show how polarizing political contexts can embolden students to challenge faculty and coursework they view as i…
To fight against “wokeness” in higher education, Florida’s conservative-led government passed multiple laws that restrict the ability of faculty to teach and students to learn at the state’s public colleges and universities. This legislation created a …
Teaching the anthropology of topics often considered controversial, such as “addiction” and the structural inequalities that shape it, is becoming increasingly challenging in the current climate of higher education in the United States. Neoliberal impe…
InVisible Culture
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Employing a reflexive standpoint and drawing upon the digital ethnographic method, this article examines Nigeria’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad (EndSARS) protest, a movement that combats police brutality, focusing specifi…
Les pratiques culturelles relatives aux arts visuels contemporains restent très minoritaires et plutôt réservées aux classes supérieures. Pourtant les prix records qu’atteignent quelques rares œuvres d’art d’artistes vivants – tels Damien Hi…