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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · Aug 8

As syllabi are being put together, don't miss this Teaching Tools series on "Teaching Ecological Distress" compiled by @alicerudge.bsky.social @soasanthro.bsky.social et al.

A toolkit with guided readings & activist/pedagogical tools for teaching ecological distress across contexts.

Screen shot of the series title in orange, and below the series image, depicting "A mixed herd of goats and sheep graze below the high passes in the Dhauladhar range of the Himalaya. The shepherds experience ecological stress mediated through the animals that they care for. Photo by Suraj Gupta shared with permission."

Screen shot of some text from the linked intro: "In our classrooms we are increasingly encountering ecological distress, and many of our students seek anthropological thinking as a way of making sense of the everyday challenges of climate change and ecological destruction. As a collective, we see it as our responsibility to encourage critical inquiry about the ways in which ecological distress is a shared planetary problem, and the ways in which it is unevenly distributed, or incommensurable, across bodies, minds, landscapes, and within and between pedagogical spaces. How might old and new anthropological insights shape how we respond to and understand—even help to repair—ecological distress?

The entries within this collection aim to encourage students—in and outside the university—to think through these kinds of questions. Our diverse collective of scholars and practitioners are based across the United Kingdom, the United States, Malaysia, India, Australia, Germany, & New Zealand, where the contours of ecological distress take distinct forms."

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EASA @easainfo.bsky.social · Jul 31

New #OpenAccess entry on 'Sustainability' out in @anthroencyclo.bsky.social

Written by Prof. @alicerudge.bsky.social at @soasanthro.bsky.social

Find it here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/sustai...

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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · Jul 28

With "a keen eye for the workings of power," Anthropology "forces us to value the plurality that characterises the landscapes into which sustainability lands, that goes into constituting sustainability initiatives, and that marks definitions of sustainability itself," writes @alicerudge.bsky.social

Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · Jul 18

New entry, new entry, new entry! 📣 📣 📣
SUSTAINABILITY 🌱 🌱 🌱
written by Alice Rudge 📝 📝 📝
"Sustainability is one of the key terms of the contemporary moment" - and thus there's so much to learn about this term! Read the full entry (as always, OA) here: anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/sustai...

Sustainability

The term ‘sustainability’, as used in policy and common contemporary parlance, has a very European heritage, but its meanings and implications defy easy definition. While perhaps most famously the…

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Alice Rudge @alicerudge.bsky.social · Jul 18

New article on 'Sustainability' out in the Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology! Written off the back of designing the @soasanthro.bsky.social MA Global Futures and Sustainability curriculum - thank you to our amazing students and all who supported!

Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · Jul 18

Hot off the press: New #openaccess entry on the #anthropology of #sustainability by Prof. Alice Rudge at @soasanthro.bsky.social www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/sustai...

Sustainability

The term ‘sustainability’, as used in policy and common contemporary parlance, has a very European heritage, but its meanings and implications defy easy definition. While perhaps most famously the ter...

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University of Nebraska Press @univnebpress.bsky.social · Jun 11

"The monograph’s immense contribution is in its analysis of language, in terms of its synthesis of the Batek voice and its reflection on how voice can function," writes Faizah Zakaria for Indigenous Religious Traditions of SENSING OTHERS by @alicerudge.bsky.social‬

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Cover of "Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest"

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Ben Elliott @archsoundscapes.bsky.social · May 8

Good news day! I'm very pleased to be able to announce this after a little wait. I can't wait to get stuck into it with Alice Rudge of @soasanthro.bsky.social, @graemewarren.bsky.social, and an exciting new face who will fill our PDRA position in due course! Full intro thread to follow...

UHI Archaeology Institute @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social · May 8

A research project looking at how ideas of prehistory are used by policy makers today has been awarded funding from the British Academy’s Knowledge Frontiers programme.
#archaeology #research #mesolithic #paleolithic #ThinkUHI #UHIResearch

‘Prehistoric Policies’ research project secures British Academy funding

A research project looking at how ideas of prehistory are used by policy makers has been awarded funding from the British Academy’s Knowledge Frontiers programme.

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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · May 8

The @ucddublin.bsky.social story about the exciting project *Prehistoric Policies* that Ben Elliott @archsoundscapes.bsky.social, Alice Rudge @alicerudge.bsky.social and I are just starting. Interested in how ideas about the past influence policy today? Watch this space!

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UCD collaborates on British Academy funded project on evoking prehistory to support fairness in climate action

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David Pearson @dj-pearson.bsky.social · Mar 28

Dark laboratory: on columbus, the Caribbean, and the origins of the climate crisis by @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social is on its way to the stacks @soaslibrary.bsky.social!

@soasanthro.bsky.social @soasdevelopment.bsky.social @alicerudge.bsky.social

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · Feb 20

Jennifer Clapp's latest uncovers the long history of corporate power in agriculture and shows why we’ll need to undo the sins of the nineteenth century if we are all to survive in the twenty-first. Titans of Industrial Agriculture is out now and well worth your time!

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Alice Rudge @alicerudge.bsky.social · Feb 19

Looking forward to this @culanth.bsky.social SCA Fridays conversation with Nikita Simpson and Saad Quasem - alongside the ecological distress collective including @kerrychance.bsky.social, Bridget Bradley, and Gerimis Art Project! Join us Friday 11-12 EST, 4pm UK time, or 12am Malaysia time!

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University of Nebraska Press @univnebpress.bsky.social · Feb 13

News & Reviews featuring @waitmanwbeorn.com @sidsibo.bsky.social @jacobflaws.bsky.social @alicerudge.bsky.social and more!

News & Reviews

ICYMI Lion of the League by Larry R. Gerlach was the winner of the 2025 SABR Seymour Medal! Lion of the League, by Larry R. Gerlach, gives readers three books for the price of one: a biography of Bob Emslie, a largely forgotten baseball pioneer; a history of the evolution of umpiring from the beginning of professional baseball through the 1930s and a rare glimpse into minor league baseball from its earliest days.

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Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · Nov 29

The call for new editorial leadership at Cultural Anthropology is now open. Since its founding in 1986, the journal has represented the cutting-edge of anthropological theory and ethnographic inquiry. More info: culanth.org/about/about-...

Open Call for New Editorial Leadership of Cultural Anthropology

We invite applications for the next editor or editors of Cultural Anthropology, the peer-reviewed, diamond open access journal of the Society for...

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Alice Rudge @alicerudge.bsky.social · Nov 27

Yayyyy this was a great project to work on. Thank you to editors @lianachua.bsky.social and Viola Schreer for inspiring us to think about heroism and villainy in the Anthropocene! And a huge thanks for putting together such a wonderful community of authors - there's some incredible pieces in here!

Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · Nov 27

Our @GLO_ERC special section, '#Heroes and #Villains in the #Anthropocene', is finally out in @EnvHumanities! We explore ideas of heroism & villainy + politics of blame in an age of planetary crisis and ask how these can be reworked for the present read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

Introduction | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press

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Katie Ulrich @katieulrich.bsky.social · Nov 18

My own piece looks at sugarcane-based #bioplastic and how it replicates petro-systems more than interrupts them. Também disponível em português! culanth.org/fieldsights/...

I’m (Not) Green

(Com tradução para o português) When I go to the grocery store in São Paulo and check out, I can pay a few cents extra to get a plastic bag. I’ve...

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Katie Ulrich @katieulrich.bsky.social · Nov 18

The series has essays by wonderful contributors who were SO great to work and think with. Thanks to all of them, as well as the Cultural Anthropology team. @dominicboyer.bsky.social @beatricecointe.bsky.social @mythrijega.bsky.social @markomonteiro.bsky.social @hannahcknox.bsky.social and many more

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Katie Ulrich @katieulrich.bsky.social · Nov 18

Excited that this series on substitution, co-edited by Alice Rudge, Véra Ehrenstein, and myself, is now live. “Substitution constitutes a method for tracing continuities amid seeming change, disruption amid seeming continuity, and possibility within constraint.” culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Substitution

Substituting one thing for another–things, people, habits–happens all the time. Substitution is so mundane that it can easily be taken for grante...

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Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · Nov 12

Short text just published in a collection on "Substitution" edited by @katieulrich.bsky.social, Alice Rudge & Véra Ehrenstein.
Sharing Fressoz's puzzlement with the "energy transition", I follow the traces of transition-as-substitutions in models & data infrastructures.

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Decarbonation as Substitution?

(Avec traduction française) COP28, which closed on December 13, 2023, was presented as signaling “‘the beginning of the end’ of the fossil fuel e...

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