Alice Rudge

So proud of the work done by our incredible students on the MA Anthropology of Global Futures and Sustainability! An example of what engaged and caring anthropological writing can look like 🙌

As syllabi are being put together, don't miss this Teaching Tools series compiled by @Alice__Rudge, @NiksSimpson, @SOASanthro on "Teaching Ecological Distress:" A toolkit with guided readings & activist/pedagogical tools for teaching ecological distress across contexts.

New #OpenAccess entry on 'Sustainability' out in the Open Encyclopedia of #Anthropology Written by Prof. @Alice__Rudge at @SOASanthro Find it here: buff.ly/moaVRJj

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"The monograph’s immense contribution is in its analysis of language, in terms of its synthesis of the Batek voice and its reflection on how voice can function," writes Faizah Zakaria for Indigenous Religious Traditions of SENSING OTHERS by @Alice__Rudge. bit.ly/43WCHxg

The insatiable consumption of concrete leads to the extraction of geologically finite resources and the release of carbon dioxide. Searching for alternative construction materials features centrally in debates about climate change and the Anthropocene. culanth.org/fieldsights/st…

Very much looking forward to this!

CAMHRA Public Launch: Inaugural Lecture by Dr Bhrigupati Singh ‘What can and cannot be quantified: Thoughts for a new alliance of anthropology and mental health’ Opening remarks by Prof. Laura Hammond (Deputy Vice-Chancellor) 28 April, 5:30–8:30pm eventbrite.com/e/camhra-inaug…

While sugar itself is usually easily metabolized by the human body, the enormity of violence in sugar’s history is hard for sugarcane scientists to fully incorporate in their research. @katiemulrich in our newest Theorizing the Contemporary series.

There is a temporal rupture in the ways facts about tropical rainforests have come to be understood not only in Peruvian Amazonia, but across the world, over the last decade. Eduardo Romero Dianderas in our newest Theorizing the Contemporary series.

@DJ_Pearson @taoleighgoffe @SOASLibrary Great news!!!

@Alice__Rudge In this one, MA student Tara Breuer explores whether B Corp certification drives corporate accountability and systemic change or serves as a sophisticated form of greenwashing in a world increasingly demanding ethical business practice. soas.ac.uk/about/blogs/to…

Are Malaysia's peatlands a wasteland or a gold mine? This essay explores colonial legacies and metaphors for valuing wetlands: culanth.org/fieldsights/pe…

Reminder that our next SCA Fridays is coming up! You can register here: zoom.us/meeting/regist…

You can register for our next SCA Fridays—on ecological distress—here (or at the QR code below): zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Looking forward to this @culanth SCA Fridays conversation with @NiksSimpson , Saad Quasem @SOASanthro - alongside the ecological distress collective including Kerry Ryan Chance, Bridget Bradley, and Gerimis Art Project! Friday 11-12 EST, 4pm UK time, or 12am Malaysia time!

We also recently published this three-part Teaching Tools series on teaching ecological distress, edited by @SOASanthro's @Alice__Rudge, @NiksSimpson, and Saad Quasem: culanth.org/fieldsights/se…

As we encounter ecological distress in our classrooms and work, how might old and new anthropological insights shape how we respond to and understand—even help to repair—this distress? @Alice__Rudge @NiksSimpson and Saad Quasem have suggestions: culanth.org/fieldsights/se…

Out now on FirstView, don't miss @pare_desu's "Topographies of Fungibility: Reinventing the Japanese Taste for Sweetness in the Philippine Highlands." #Banana #Japan #Taiwan #Philippines #Commodities #Anthropology doi.org/10.1017/S00104…