Thursday, August 30, 2012
Last week I wrote an exam on the topic of the anthropology of environmental knowledge, broadly defined. This included sections on both traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and scientific knowledge about the environment, and it also involved thinking about ways of reconciling them as they often conflict with one another. I have yet to see my [...]
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
This is the best definition of political ecology I’ve encountered. From Isabelle Stengers: To have made political questions proliferate by tearing them away from the fields of expertise in which they were confined is the major contribution of political ecology. Endangered species, climate change, pollution, the sharing of water resources, the energy crisis, desertification, all [...]
We watched this video today in a class on the anthropology of climate change. It’s very interesting in that it defines and explains the transition from the Holocene to what has come to become called the Anthropocene. According to the speaker (Will Stefan) the most convincing factor for declaring such a transition is the increasing [...]
