Anthropology of Infrastructure/Built Environment: How can we study the built environment and the natural environment without reifying those categories?
Question Set
Anthropology of Knowledge & Expertise: Where do individuals locate expertise within and outside their communities?
Question Set
Anthropology of Knowledge & Expertise: How do communities understand the failure of expertise and of experts?
Question Set
“Mercury Rising: Tracing Quicksilver and (its) Toxic Assets in a Rapidly Heating Planet”
I am an anthropologist examining issues of planetary health, focusing on connections of human and environmental wellness. My fleet-footed toxic figure is mercury in its multivalent forms, carrying a “charge” of environmental racism and "slow violence." Artisanal and small-scale gold-mining (ASGM) have become the top sources for anthropogenic mercury contamination, beating out fossil fuels. The 2013 Minamata Treaty recommends eradicating ASGM, which pits brown bodies laboring in the mines against white collar corporations that offer “clean(er)” mining strategies.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Environmental Anthropology - How might analysis of the environment attune us to understanding different and perhaps nonintuitive relations of care? What are the implications of taking "environments" as the object of study as opposed to "ecologies"?
experimental Ethnographic Methods
This essay supports the teaching of experimental Ethnographic Methods, usually to PhD students.
