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
Walker-Crawford, Noah
Name: Noah Walker-Crawford
Affiliation: University College London
Contact details: n.walker-crawford@ucl.ac.uk
Statement of interest: My work focusses on the knowledges and notions of responsibility at stake in discussions about climate change. My research follows climate justice claims between the Peruvian Andes, German courts and UN Climate Summits, exploring how legal activism reframes climate politics.
Geographical/topical area of interest: Climate Change, Legal Anthropology, Peru, Andes
Woolley, Jonathan
Name: Jonathan Woolley
Affiliation: University of Cambridge
Contact details: jw521@cam.ac.uk
Pembroke College, Cambridge, CB2 1RF
Statement of interest: Religion and climate change; the environment, healing and wellbeing; myth, folklore and the landscape; the political economy of rural life; eco-activism and climate change; agriculture and rural affairs; land management practices and conservation; druidry and neo-paganisms.
Geographical/topical areas of interest: Northern Europe inc. Britain and Eire; the Anglosphere; Inner Asia.
Wright, Thomas
Name: Thomas Wright
Affiliation: School of Social Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia
Contact details: Email: thomas.wright@uq.edu.au
Twitter: @tabooism
Academia: https://uq.academia.edu/ThomasWright
Statement of interest: My research interest is in Balinese people's relationships to water. In particular I am interested in the marine environment, tourism, waterway management, pollution and groundwater resources.
Geographical/topical area of interest: I have done ethnographic research in Bali, Indonesia.
Yager, Karina
Name: Karina Yager
Affiliation: Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Contact details: Karina.yager@stonybrook.edu
Statement of interest: Dr. Yager’s research is focused on the social and ecological impacts of climate change in the Andes of South America. Her interdisciplinary research examines land use and land cover change (LCLUC), utilizing remote sensing, alpine vegetation studies, peatland studies, ecosystem change, and ethnographic fieldwork with indigenous pastoralists. Yager’s current projects are focused on the impact of disappearing tropical glaciers on pastoral agriculture, and deciphering climate and societal drivers of LCLUC in the Andes. She has been part of the GLORIA (Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments) network in South America for over a decade. Her doctoral degree is in Anthropology from Yale University; she did her in postdoctoral research at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and is currently Assistant Professor in Sustainability Studies in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University, New York.
Geographical/topical area of interest: Andes of South America, Bolivia, Chile, Peru