By: Cate Jones Globally, coral reefs are experiencing high levels of bleaching and biodiversity loss. For example, the Great Barrier Reef experienced a massive bleaching event between 2015 and 2017 that left half of the corals dead (Braverman, 2019). According to many scientists, coral reefs are threatened by the Anthropocene, a proposed geological epoch that... Continue Reading →
Following Brick Roads: An Observation of Desire Paths on the William & Mary Campus
By: Evelyn Hall Dorothea and her friends take an infamous journey to The Emerald City in the classic story of "The Wizard of Oz". They have a whole musical number about following brick roads and they face negative externalities when the statement gets ignored. I never knew just how important this motto was until I... Continue Reading →
Between democracy and the market: conservation along the southern Andes (Argentina and Chile)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jo-6elcNhM Panel Presented at the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) meeting 2021: Anthropology & Conservation Since the 1990s, the southern Andes along the Argentinean-Chilean border has seen an unprecedented growth of public and private conservation projects. Such growth has contributed to the transformation of this area from a remote natural resource frontier, whose economic and political... Continue Reading →
Conservation Ethics Syllabus
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Concepts for Conservation Ethics – A Toolkit
This toolkit provides with concepts to think with for a more ethical conservation -its practices, scholarship, and futures.- The concepts are crafted by students in the course Conservation Ethics at William & Mary. Affect Anthrophobia Arrogance (experts) Biopolitics Ecological Colonialism Environmental Kin Study Mastery of Nature Reciprocity Sharing Suffering Utilitarianism Wilderness
Afternatures: The Politics of Race, Science, & Nature 