Anders Burman
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View article: Evidence of climate and economic drivers affecting migration in an unequal and warming world
Evidence of climate and economic drivers affecting migration in an unequal and warming world Open
Climate conditions, in complex interrelations with other socioenvironmental, economic, political and cultural factors, significantly play a key role in shaping population density and movement. However, the impacts of climate change on glob…
View article: The Anthropocene narrative and Amerindian lifeworlds: <i>anthropos</i> , agency, and personhood
The Anthropocene narrative and Amerindian lifeworlds: <i>anthropos</i> , agency, and personhood Open
Based on the observation that the Anthropocene narrative signifies a departure from the Cartesian nature/culture division dominant within modernist science, this article explores notions of personhood and agency among Amerindian peoples in…
View article: Uncomfortable Knowledge: Toward a Pedagogy of Reflexivity
Uncomfortable Knowledge: Toward a Pedagogy of Reflexivity Open
Reflexivity is a hallmark of good ethnography and many consider it a defining characteristic of anthropology. It is thus surprising that anthropologists have not paid more attention to how we teach students to be reflexive. Many of us lear…
View article: Toward productive complicity: Applying ‘traditional ecological knowledge’ in environmental science
Toward productive complicity: Applying ‘traditional ecological knowledge’ in environmental science Open
Culture and tradition have long been the domains of social science, particularly social/cultural anthropology and various forms of heritage studies. However, many environmental scientists whose research addresses environmental management, …
View article: Achieving peaceful climate change adaptation through transformative governance
Achieving peaceful climate change adaptation through transformative governance Open
Which form of governance is required to bridge tensions that stem from the urgent need of climate change adaptation (CCA) on the one hand, and the imperative of upholding peace and social stability in vulnerable areas on the other? This ar…
View article: A taste for ecology: class, coloniality, and the rise of a Bolivian urban environmental movement
A taste for ecology: class, coloniality, and the rise of a Bolivian urban environmental movement Open
Since at least the mid-20th century, social movements have been key actors in Bolivian society, causing governments to fall and redrawing the cartographies of power. Recently, a new movement emerged, a middle-class movement that articulate…
View article: Black hole indigeneity: the explosion and implosion of radical difference as resistance and power in Andean Bolivia
Black hole indigeneity: the explosion and implosion of radical difference as resistance and power in Andean Bolivia Open
With the coming to power of Evo Morales and el Movimiento al Socialismo, an indigenized language of resistance became the language of power. In this paper I explore how epistemological and ontological ‘radical difference’ was co-opted and …
View article: The political ontology of climate change: moral meteorology, climate justice, and the coloniality of reality in the Bolivian Andes
The political ontology of climate change: moral meteorology, climate justice, and the coloniality of reality in the Bolivian Andes Open
Taking Boaventura de Sousa Santos' argument that there is no global social justice without global cognitive justice as its starting point, this article suggests that there is no global climate justice without global cognitive justice (impl…