Anthropological Perspectives on Ecocide: Ecological Grief, Planetary Datafication, and Extractivism This panel brings together three contributions to examine ecocide from different anthropological perspectives. Drawing on sensory ethnography, the first presentation explores grief and narratives of more-than- human loss as part of the social dimensions of ecocide. The second presentation shifts focus to infrastructures of planetary […]

Visual Anthropology Panel: Beyond Ecocide: Rethinking Narratives of Environmental Harm through Film This panel brings together two distinct yet resonant works to challenge dominant visual and conceptual frameworks of environmental crisis. Moving beyond all-encompassing discourses, both films attend to subtle, layered, and often overlooked forms of environmental transformation shaped by human and non-human interactions.  Rather than depicting […]

Student Panel – Fostering A Care For The Environment In The Classroom   The decline of biodiversity driven by climate change poses a significant threat to natural habitats as we know them. In the current age, often referred to by scholars as the anthropocene, human activity has become a planetary force of change. For many, […]

Parte y no dueña: Ethics of Care and the Struggle to mitigate the Mar Menor ecological collapse Rebeca Ibáñez Martín In this presentation, I focus on how feelings of pain and loss experienced firsthand by our interlocutors — as they witnessed the Mar Menor slowly suffocating  after an anoxic event— served as a driving force […]

Beyond ecocide? For an anthropology of war ecologies David Henig Warfare, regardless of time and place, has always devastated lives, landscapes, and entire ecologies. In recent years, ecocide has become an important frame for attending to the long-lasting aftermaths of wars. The concept first appeared in 1970 in connection with documenting the intentional destruction of […]

Join us for the joint Etnofoor and NEvA webinar on (Un)making Archives! Register here! Rather than treating archives as neutral repositories of the past, this webinar approaches archives as sites where power operates through selection, erasure, classification, and care. The contributions ask how archives shape what becomes visible or stays obscured, whose lives are deemed […]

The past decades have witnessed growing concerns around collections in Western museums and archives. Amid broader post- and decolonial critiques of heritage institutions, objects and practices, museums were confronted with demands to look critically at, or investigate possibilities for the restitution of (parts of) their collections. While the focus has tended to be on ethnographic […]

We are excited to announce that on February 28, the ABv, in collaboration with Etnofoor, will be co-organizing a thought-provoking webinar on “Utopia”. We are thrilled to feature Yatun Sastramidjaja as our discussant for the evening. As Fredric Jameson once wrote, it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. From blockchain to renewable energy projects, […]