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View article: Immersive scholarship: Inhabiting and crafting storied lifeworlds through ethnographic research retreats
Immersive scholarship: Inhabiting and crafting storied lifeworlds through ethnographic research retreats Open
Retreats are frequently examined as an ethnographic field to investigate a range of phenomena that occurs while on retreat. This process involves the researcher/s entering the lifeworlds of the retreat. Through immersion in lifeworlds, eth…
View article: Storying the self and self-belonging: (Re)fleshing relational selves beyond limiting individualisms via a feminist fable
Storying the self and self-belonging: (Re)fleshing relational selves beyond limiting individualisms via a feminist fable Open
Storying – processes of (re)making meaning with and through stories – helps to make sense of experiences of self-belonging. We draw on our experiences as five Indigenous and non-Indigenous self-identifying women who took part in a story-ba…
View article: Weedy Life: Coloniality, Decoloniality, and Tropicality
Weedy Life: Coloniality, Decoloniality, and Tropicality Open
Respect for any form of life entails nurturing all the potentialities proper to it, including those that might be unproductive from the human point of view. Are there lessons to be learnt about decolonisation of the tropics from a focus on…
View article: Borders and Catastrophe: lessons from COVID-19 for the European Green Deal
Borders and Catastrophe: lessons from COVID-19 for the European Green Deal Open
This article considers how the European Union and Member States’ responses to the COVID-19 crisis in the first half of 2020 could inform climate action in Europe, and particularly the resumption of actions on the EGD. It first outlines the…
View article: Citizen observatory based soil moisture monitoring – the GROW example
Citizen observatory based soil moisture monitoring – the GROW example Open
GROW Observatory is a project funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. Its aim is to establish a large scale (more than 20,000 participants), resilient and integrated ‘Citizen Observatory’ (CO) and co…
View article: Health Anthropology in Australia
Health Anthropology in Australia Open
However, the diversity of fields of inquiry that Australian anthropologists working in health engage in illustrates a tension around our professional "branding.
View article: The contribution of Citizens’ Observatories to validation of satellite‐retrieved soil moisture products
The contribution of Citizens’ Observatories to validation of satellite‐retrieved soil moisture products Open
The GROW Observatory (GROW) will create a sustainable citizen platform and community to generate, share and utilise information on land, soil and water resources at a resolution hitherto not previously considered. The European Space Agency…
View article: Rebranding Our Field? Toward an Articulation of Health Anthropology
Rebranding Our Field? Toward an Articulation of Health Anthropology Open
In this article, we consider whether the term "medical anthropology" is serving us as well as it could be and whether the term "health anthropology" could be more appropriate. We argue that medical anthropology is used metonymically; that …