Heather O'Leary, Ph.D.

Feminist. Environmental Justice Scholar. Anthropologist. Professor.

[Heather O'Leary, Ph.D. @EcoFemLab]

@aayushi2493 It was truly an honor to review the submissions, chair, and witness the #iuaes2023 attendees supportively responding to these powerful new voices in Anthropology. The submissions had a lot of competition which shows the power of the next generation of Anthropologists @critanth

[Heather O'Leary, Ph.D. @EcoFemLab]

Julian Cuaspa Ropain, winner of the Critique of Anthropology Early Career Award, describes museum fires, cultural authority and inherently political questions of national identity #iuaes #iuaes2023 #wau
@critanth @Delhiuniversit @vibrantaba @AmEthno

[Heather O'Leary, Ph.D. @EcoFemLab]

Kamal Choudhary, winner of the Critique of Anthropology Early Career Award, addresses the transition to speculative development and non-residency in Dehradun—insights complicating worldwide assumptions #iuaes #iuaes2023 #wau @EconomicAnthro
@critanth @Delhiuniversit @CASCATweet

[Heather O'Leary, Ph.D. @EcoFemLab]

@joycee_krose, winner of the Critique of Anthropology Early Career Award, speaks to the tenuous & timeless assumptions of self/other in her examination of transitions in structural violences in Nagaland #iuaes #iuaes2023 #wau @Delhiuniversit @critanth @AmericanAnthro @CASCATweet

[Heather O'Leary, Ph.D. @EcoFemLab]

Dr. Rituraj Sharma, winner of the Critique of Anthropology Early Career Award, answers the international call for anthropology of JOY in her study of spatial injustices and class identity in everyday play in Delhi #iuaes #iuaes2023 #wau @EconomicAnthro @Delhiuniversit @critanth

[Heather O'Leary, Ph.D. @EcoFemLab]

@aayushi2493, winner of the Critique of Anthropology Early Career Award, deftly outlines epistemic histories with insightful calls for future action in both India and internationally. This is the future of anthropology!!! #iuaes #iuaes2023 #wau @Delhiuniversit @critanth

[Aayushi Malhotra @AayushiMalh0tra]

Back at the university for International Union of Anthropology and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)-World Anthropology Congress 2023 happening in India this time.
Looking forward to all the exciting panels and conversations.
#IUAES2023
@iuaes2023 @WAU_org

[Heather O'Leary, Ph.D. @EcoFemLab]

#AirQuality is not simply a “natural” thing. Infrastructures can dispossess people of the rights and resources to breathe. And humans build these infrastructures. #icantbreathe https://t.co/rnafdvcYCg @DeondreSmiles @EcoFemLab #snrjournal #iasnr @info_iasnr

[Brandon D. Lundy @Lundy1D]

Thank you @NorthwesternU for hosting @EconomicAnthro this weekend @AmericanAnthro !

[Heather O'Leary, Ph.D. @EcoFemLab]

Some of the secularization of development is embedded in gendered claims to the body. @seymakabaoglu describes the politics of visibility in Islamic banking are tied to women’s bodies as points of reference to piety. @NUAnthro @EconomicAnthro @AmericanAnthro

[Heather O'Leary, Ph.D. @EcoFemLab]

What happens when plural relations, epistemologies, and cultures of the wind are not considered in #windenergy? @falsocuaderno says #Colombia and elsewhere risks #Climate Colonialism when #indigenouspeoples are not considered. @EconomicAnthro @ColoradoCollege

[Heather O'Leary, Ph.D. @EcoFemLab]

What is the economic nature of racial equity? @weigone describes the vast gaps in #asianamerican funding as a form of reifying problematic claims to power and capital @EconomicAnthro @Princeton @AmericanAnthro @AAPIData

[Heather O'Leary, Ph.D. @EcoFemLab]

China Sajadian @CUNY describes the moral dimensions of debt based labor of precarious #migrantlabor with her beautiful and robust ethnography on mass indebtedness that won this year’s Schneider Award @EconomicAnthro @AmericanAnthro @NorthwesternU

[Heather O'Leary, Ph.D. @EcoFemLab]

@momopcp suggests that we can locate our hopes for transformative corporate #sustainability not only in the field, but also with the office as an object of development @EconomicAnthro @NorthwesternU

[Heather O'Leary, Ph.D. @EcoFemLab]

Olivia Jørgensen of @PwC describes the green growth projected with decoupling extractivism from development which can be tracked by CSRD @economicanthro @NorthwesternU

[International Science Council @ISC]

📢 Call for nominations: @ISEEORG announces the Bina Agarwal Prize for Young Scholars in Ecological Economics, to be awarded biennially for outstanding contributions to Ecological Economics.

⏳ Deadline: May 15, 2023

Learn more: https://t.co/wNXaPglfcP

[Heather O'Leary, Ph.D. @EcoFemLab]

@UrsulaMuenster of @ANTHSOILS describes the metaphors and epistemologies of soil as a living, vibrant cultural artifact and how we acknowledge this is a frontier of environmental humanities. @dartmouth Affective Currents #EcoFeminisms

[IA Society & Natural Resources (IASNR) @info_iasnr]

New #SNR paper by Sonya S Sachdeva, Lynne M Westphal, Laura S Kenefic, Michael J Dockry, Dexter H Locke & Cherie L Fisher. Employees of color are more likely to be terminated, Women advance slower, & White male employees advance fastest @forestservice

https://t.co/bZWdgR9RuD

[Heather O'Leary, Ph.D. @EcoFemLab]

Dr. Christian Zlolniski describes the triple violences on labor workers in the Mexican beach pebble industry, pointing to gaps in fair trade systems concerning #IndigenousPeoples and #childlabor. With fruit exports it is a greater legacy of extraction. @SfAAnthro @utarlington

[Heather O'Leary, Ph.D. @EcoFemLab]

Dr. Nina Ortiz, argues that rural meatpackers have vibrant and agentive responses to food insecurity created by employers’ “industrial performance of benevolence” ultimately subsidizing formal global food systems with invisibilized labor. @SfAAnthro @UMNMorris #EcoFeminisms