The Violence of Gated Communities in Buenos Aires’s Wetlands
Who Shapes Space?
By Elyas Bouallegui (Spring 2022) This blogpost attempts to illustrate the molding of space by human and non-human inhabitants as they work to serve their own motives in similar ways within a shared space. Specifically, I will be telling the story from my perspective through observing and interviewing a frequent and longtime visitor of Huntley... Continue Reading →
Birdwatching with Birds Watching
Exploring human-animal relations with the William and Mary Bird Club By Alice Palfreyman (Spring 2022) Walking through the Wildflower Refuge on the William and Mary campus, I hear some excitement from the Bird Club crowd in front of me as we turn the corner. Peering through my binoculars, I see exactly what everyone is raving... Continue Reading →
STS from the Wounds
Mara Dicenta, William & Mary; Julia Morales Fontanilla, Rutgers University; Aadita Chaudhury, York University. Panel organized at the 2021 Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Meeting. What does it mean to engage in “good relations” in worlds that unfold after violence and destruction? How does STS respond to wounded worlds? This panel interrogates the... 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 