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By Anaclara Giurfa de Brito and Tarsila Iglecio.

With contributions Amelia Yates, Anna Magrì, and Sara Cano Diaz.

Edited by Jaqueline Aranduhá.

Arif Jamal

During the vortex of climate debate around Glasgow’s COP26, I was struck by a depressing consensus reached by some of the UK’s most prominent environmentalists: humans are innately destructive and psychologically inept when it comes to tackling the climate emergency.

By Simon Hoyte

In 2018, the Colombian anthropologist Arturo Escobar remarked:

We are facing modern problems for which there are no longer modern solutions

What he’s referring to is that the worsening ecological crises, created through Western knowledge systems, cannot be solved by Western knowledge systems despite being widely considered ‘advanced’ and ‘modern’.

Simon Hoyte, Alice Sheppard, Marcos Moreu, Megan Laws & Jerome Lewis

Extreme Citizen Science Research Group

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Over recent years there have been high profile legal challenges, investigative articles in the media, and important reports on the relationship between conservationists and Indigenous peoples.

Originally published by the

Simon Hoyte & Catherine Clarke

×î×¼µÄÁùºÏ²ÊÂÛ̳ & Forest Peoples Programme

A new article on the consequences for biological and cultural diversity of sustainable development in the Congo Basin – just out in Scientific American

Carolina Schneider Comandulli

Extreme Citizen Science Research Group

Centre for the Anthropology of Sustainability

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Indigenous and environmental rights are under threat in Brazil from Jair Bolsonaro’s government. In a little less then 4 months in power, Brazil’s current President has managed to dismantle the country’s existing structures for the protection of environmental and human rights.

A recent discussion between CAoS co-founder Jerome Lewis and ×î×¼µÄÁùºÏ²ÊÂÛ̳ Associate Professor Hannah Knox, in which they discuss public anthropology in the context of climate change and digital technology. This conversation takes place on behalf of Global Ethnographic, an online multimedia ethnographic journal.

Global Ethnographic – Online Discussion Series from Tiffany Cone on Vimeo.

Announced on November 13th 2018 in Brasília, the £200,000 Newton Prize for projects demonstrating the best science and innovation to address global challenges through partnerships was awarded to the project ‘Improving Guarani lives by restoring the Atlantic Forest’.

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