UPCOMING EVENTS

Join us in November at the Australian Food, Society, and Culture Network's Fifth Annual Symposium (Sydney) and the AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting (Vancouver) for two talks on indigenous food pedagogies and land rights activism in West Papua.

Click here to register for the AFSCN conference and here to register for the AAA/CASCA conference.

PUBLICATIONS

Listen to a guest interview on anti-racism protests in West Papua on BBC World's Live TV Newsday Programme.

Read an op-ed on the anti-racism protests in West Papua, published by Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, the national public broadcaster for Turkey.

Read a short interview for The University of Sydney's Staff News on anthropology, activism, and interdisciplinarity.

Read "Hunger in the Rubble of the Forest," a Chinese-language article published in Others (他者), a special section on indigenous cultures of The Paper (澎湃) .

MORETHANHUMAN MATTERS

This week, morethanhuman matters interviews Dr. Laura Rival, a Professor in Anthropology and Development at the University of Oxford, whose research explores Amerindian conceptions of nature and society; plant knowledge and plant symbolism in the Americas; indigenous rights and oil development; schooling and culture; and social and community forestry. 

TOP THREE ARTICLES

Davis, Diana K., and Paul Robbins, 2018. “Ecologies of the Colonial Present: Pathological Forestry from the Taux de Boisement to Civilized Plantations.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, Vol. 1(4) 447–469.

How colonial forestry continues to haunt contemporary policy, producing “pathological ecologies” with pernicious effects on people.

Jacka, Jerry K. 2019. “Resource Conflicts and the Anthropology of the Dark and the Good in Highlands Papua New Guinea.” The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 30: 35–52.

How anthropologies of the dark and the good can hinder more subtle understandings of value plurality and self-sacrifice in Melanesia.

Ferretti, Federico. 2019. “A Coffin for Malthusianism: Josué De Castro’s Subaltern Geopolitics.” Geopolitics, 1–26.

How Brazilian geographer Josué de Castro’s anti-colonial geopolitics of hunger furnish powerful arguments to present-day critics of “food security.”