Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon

The new edited volume Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon includes over 60 entries and it’s free! Check out my contribution, simply titled “Shit.”

Sedimentation

On Tuesday afternoon at the American Anthropological Association Meeting, I had the opportunity to participate as discussant on a panel … More

A few weeks ago, Nivedita Kar interviewed me for the New Books in Anthropology Podcast. The episode just went online … More

Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer invited me on to the Cultures of Energy podcast to discuss my recent book Amazonia … More

Yesterday I spoke with Matthew DeMello about my recent article The Irony of the Anthropocene. We discussed some of the challenges posed … More

Michael F. Brown reviewed my book in the Times Literary Supplement this July. Here’s a brief excerpt: “Growing awareness of … More

University of Texas Press just posted a short interview with me about my new book Amazonia in the Anthropocene: People, … More

I wrote a short essay titled “shit” that was just published on Cultural Anthropology’s website as part of their series Lexicon for an … More

My first book Amazonia in the Anthropocene: People, Soils, Plants, Forests will be published this May with the University of … More

The evidence on global climate change continues to mount. Both NASA and NOAA have declared 2014 the hottest year in … More