Hello and welcome to the March newsletter of morethanhumanworlds! This month, I'm sharing one upcoming talk, a selection of thought-provoking articles and podcasts, and a Morethanhuman Matters interview with Matt Barlow, a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the University of Adelaide whose research investigates the entanglements of water, waste, and energy along Kerala’s backwaters in South India. If you'd like to share resources, news, or anything else related to morethanhumanworlds, please send them to me for inclusion in the April newsletter. Enjoy and thank you for subscribing to morethanhumanworlds! |
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UPCOMING EVENTS Join us in March for a talk on sensory ways of knowing and being-with forests at BODIES STORMING, an event bringing together an interdisciplinary panel of performing artists, filmmakers, researchers, anthropologists, philosophers and feminist scholars to discuss how an embodied perspective can challenge our cultural assumptions in facing the Anthropocene. 27th March Glebe Town Hall (upstairs hall) 2 to 5 pm | | |
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NEW PUBLICATIONS Read an article on capitalism and magic in West Papua, published by the Wenner-Gren Foundation's popular anthropology magazine SAPIENS. Listen to a podcast on indigenous cartography and soundscapes in West Papua, published by the Society of Cultural Anthropology's Anthropod and the first of a new podcast series entitled "What Does Anthropology Sound Like?" | | |
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"Whether we’re talking about a toxic lake where fish numbers are decreasing and cancer rates are rising, or the toxic ash from the waste-to-energy infrastructure produced by the incineration of the plastics, there are externalities from techno-solutions to waste management crises that are both hard to capture and hard to respond to." Matt Barlow |
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MORETHANHUMAN MATTERS This week, morethanhuman matters interviews Matt Barlow, a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the University of Adelaide. Matt's research investigates the entanglements of water, waste, and energy along Kerala’s backwaters in South India. Drawing from long-term ethnographic fieldwork among a number of communities along the backwaters, Matt hopes to contribute to the study of (post)colonial infrastructures, the political ecology of water, and the anthropology of waste in urbanizing South Asia. | | |
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TOP THREE READINGS Jackson, Jean. 1999. “The Politics of Ethnographic Practice in the Colombian Vaupes.” Identities 6 (2–3): 281–317. On the contentious role of anthropologists investigating ethnic nationalism within complex mosaics of agents, colonists, and indigenous communities in the Colombian Vaupes. TallBear, Kim. 2011. “Why Interspecies Thinking Needs Indigenous Standpoints.” Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology Website. 2011. On the need for greater inclusion and recognition of indigenous and queer voices in emergent posthumanist theories and practice. Murphy, Michelle. 2017. “Alterlife and Decolonial Chemical Relations.” Cultural Anthropology 32 (4): 494–503. On the need to find words, protocols, and methods that might honor the inseparability of bodies and land, and at the same time grapple with the expansive chemical relations of settler colonialism that entangle life forms in each other’s accumulations, conditions, possibilities, and miseries. | | |
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