From the global to local, environmental crises plague our planet. Numerous scientific studies and civil movements point to the urgency of a greener vision for the world. The international community took up this call for environmental sustainability at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCTAD). Theoretical and methodological approaches in social science and humanities engage critical events through analytical inquiry of major catastrophes and also the quotidian human practices and experiences in different contexts and cultures. The systematic exploration of risk factors such as, pollution, resilience, sustainability, environmental education, symmetry, the anthropocene or environmental awareness policies open up a range of reflections on human action, that emphasize the ways in which economic policies and social relationships can be put in conversation with issues of ecosystem balance and social equity and justice. New engagements with the constitutive elements of life, such as land, water and air, and with the basic activities for human survival such as agriculture, health and reproduction, are increasingly present in anthropological research endeavors. There is also growing interest in reflecting on our understanding of the human trajectory and the memory of this path. We look for anthropological and ethnographic contributions that interrogate complex questions about the state of humans within their environments.
More details from Horizontes Antropológicos: https://www.ufrgs.br/ppgashorizontesantropologicos/?page_id=2646
Submission deadline: May 31, 2022
Guest editors:
Ana Luiza Carvalho da Rocha (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil)
Cornelia Eckert (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil)
Donald R. Nelson (University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States)