The Anthropology and the Environment Committee of the RAI have put together a list of anthropologists who are interested in environmental issues. This list is a resource for other anthropologists and for those outside anthropology looking for a particular expertise.
If you are interested in being included please reply to admin@therai.org.uk and include:
- Name
- Affiliation
- Contact details
- Statement of interest
- Geographical/topical area of interest
Cecale, Courtney
Name: Courtney Cecale
Affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Contact details: C.cecale@ucla.edu
Statement of interest: My specialties are the cultural politics of climate change (melting tropical glaciers), extractive industries, and natural disasters.
Geographical/topical area of interest: My regional focus is Latin America (with extensive fieldwork in the Peruvian Andes and Mexico)
Chua, Liana
Name: Liana Chua
Affiliation: Anthropology, Brunel University London
Contact details: liana.chua@cantab.net
Statement of interest: I have worked in Malaysian Borneo since 2003, focusing particularly on religious conversion, ethnic politics, landscape, development, resettlement and indigenous rights. My current research examines the social, political and cultural dimensions of orangutan conservation as a global nexus encompassing a disparate range of players, among them UK-based charities, conservation scientists and small villages in Borneo and Sumatra. Among other things, I am working on a new collaborative project on orangutan killing in rural Borneo, and am interested in exploring further cross-disciplinary/cross-sector opportunities with conservationists and others. I am also available for consultancy work and outreach/public engagement. For further information, please see http://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/liana-chua.
Geographical/topical areas of interest: Southeast Asia, Borneo, Malaysia, Bidayuh, landscape, development, resettlement, indigenous rights/issues, conservation, environmentalism.
Claveras, Judith Cirac
Name: Judith Cirac Claveras
Affiliation: Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Spain
Contact details: txerms0@hotmail.com
Geographical/topical area of interest: Latin America
Connon, Irena Leisbet Ceridwen
Name: Dr Irena Leisbet Ceridwen Connon
Affiliation: University of Dundee
Contact Details: Department of Geography, School of Social Science, University of Dundee, Tower Building, Main Campus, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom, DD1 4HN, Email: i.l.c.connon@dundee.ac.uk
Statement of Interest: I am interested in the anthropology of the environment and being included on the list of anthropologists interested in environmental issues
Geographical/topical area of Interest: My particular area of interest is in the anthropology of environmental risks and hazards, particularly in Alaska, Scotland and the wider UK, and Australia.
Cortesi, Luisa
Name: Luisa Cortesi
Affiliation: Department of Anthropology, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University
Contact details: luisa.cortesi@yale.edu
Statement of interest: I am interested in environmental issues and in being part of the list you are preparing.
Geographical/topical area of interest: South Asia/India/Bihar. Topic/key words: Water, disasters, floods, environmental knowledge, technologies of environmental management, water/land, drinking water, nature/culture, vulnerability and resilience, gender, poverty and sustainability, social movements around water, semiotic analysis, epistemology, ontology, phenomenology, research methodologies.