En julio de 2020, participé en un evento organizado por el grupo estudiantil Abya Yala (de Ohio State) y el Foro Permanente de Estudios, Investigación y Saberes Transdisciplinarios Ancestrales (en Cochabamba, Bolivia).
Category: Anthropocene
Placing the Anthropos in the Anthropocene
New paper coming soon in a special issue of the Annals of the American Association of Geographers. Get the pre-print copy here.
Ecologies of (Human) Waste
Check out my presentation for the 2020 Society for Cultural Anthropology virtual conference (#Distribute2020).
Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon
The edited volume Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon includes over 60 entries and it’s free! Check out my contribution, simply titled “Shit.”
Night Soil and the Metabolic Rift
Curious about the use of human waste as an agricultural fertilizer? Read our article in the open access journal Ethnobiology Letters.
Amazonia and the Ontological Turn: A Dialogue
In July 2017, I visited Manaus to work on a new collaboration with researchers in the Sociology Department at the … More
A Pretext for Plunder? Environmental Change and State-Led Redevelopment in the Peruvian Amazon
Gordon Ulmer, Sydney Silverstein, and I just published a short article (with lots of photos!) in the latest edition of … More
Sedimentation
On Tuesday afternoon at the American Anthropological Association Meeting, I had the opportunity to participate as discussant on a panel … More
New Books in Anthropology Podcast
A few weeks ago, Nivedita Kar interviewed me for the New Books in Anthropology Podcast. The episode just went online … More
Palestra na UFAM: Amazônia no antropoceno
Ontem eu tive o grande prazer de dar uma palestra na Universidade Federal do Amazonas. Quero agradecer a Tiago Jacaúna e … More