How does oil shape political loyalty & morality in 🇻🇪?
In A Blessing and a Curse, Matt Wilde discusses how citizens balance economic survival & state power under Bolivarian rule.
Read Penfield's [@amypenfield0] review of this book in #JDevstudies 👉 : https://t.co/unNsjA6mkr
📢postdoc opportunity📢 The Infracursions project is hiring TWO postdocs to undertake research on resource extraction in South America. #Amazonia#deforestation#infracursions https://t.co/YzCRNHLHzn
Are you part of a conservation organization working in the Amazon?
Please fill out a short survey to help the Infracursions project better understand the needs of local institutions and ensure our research is relevant!
https://t.co/eXk4aIMz50
Our @BritishCouncil-funded workshop started with reflections on (1) bridging the gaps among science, local communities needs, policy, and practice, and (2) the role of multidisciplinary collaborative networks and research co-production
🇧🇷🇬🇧 #Amazonia#Sociobiodiversity
Very excited to be kicking off our #multidisciplinary workshop at @UFPA_Oficial funded by the @BritishCouncil. A great forum for different voices and disciplines on climate and biodiversity.
The decimation of Anthropology at UK universities (Kent 😭; us at Goldsmiths facing becoming unviable due to rendundancies) is incredibly short-sighted.
A short 🧵 giving 8 reasons why the world needs anthropology and anthropologists, now more than ever 1/9:
Exciting opportunity for ECRs working in Amazonia! Join our workshop on Integrated Perspectives on Env Science, Biodiversity & Climate Change, in Belém, Brazil (16-18 July '24). Open to ECRs in Brazil & UK. Funded travel by @BritishCouncil! Apply here: https://t.co/sJSjM7Cikx
The first postdoc role for my INFRACURSIONS project is now being advertised! Deadline 17th April.
https://t.co/0aW2mPBKwg
Please share and get in touch with any questions!
I am looking for a postdoc with expertise in GIS and preferably some knowledge of social science research methodologies, but a list of potential skills is provided in the attached “INFRACURSIONS PDRA1 Further Particulars” document.
Excited to announce that I have been awarded an #ERCStartingGrant for a project on the informal infrastructures of Amazon deforestation. This 5-year project will focus in on small-scale drivers of forest degradation from the perspective of those involved.
#ERCStg#EUFunded 🎉
Ok people, the current hype in #Science around #Archaeology research in #Chiribiquete and #LaLindosa in #Colombia, albeit deserving, it's a clear example of how scientific discovery is colonised and monopolised. We need to have an awkward conversation 1/n
https://t.co/yWIZwwxBSX
Our wonderful Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of London is facing closure. How can this be?? In the age of post Brexit it is utter madness.
Read our new collaboration on mining, indigenous communities and COVID19. "We all have a role to play in indigenous exposure to coronavirus", by Amy Penfield, Univ of Bristol https://t.co/hk7oO6kFfO via @CAS_StAndrews@StAndrewsAnthro @BristolAnthArch @LASACONGRESS