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
Shackleton, Michael
Name: Michael Shackleton
Affliation: Associate Professor of Social & Cultural Anthropology, Osaka Gakuin University, Japan
Contact details: mshackleton@hotmail.com
Geographical/topical area of interest: Religion & Environment; Traditional use of environment + worldview; Anthropology of Natural Disasters; traditional eco-systems in East Asia (Japan/China/Korea) & East Africa; Environment Archaeology; Experimental Archaeology; Anthropology of Landscapes; Cognitive understandings of the Environment
Shoreman-Ouimet, Eleanor
Name: Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet, PhD
Affiliation: Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut (UCONN)
Contact details: eleanor.ouimet@uconn.edu
Statement of interest: I am an environmental anthropologist who studies human-environment interactions, cross-cultural conservation practices, community response to natural hazards and the effects of climate change, and the links between culture, history, economics, environmental ethics and resource management. For the past 5 years I have been actively engaged in the debate over anthropological approaches to the study of environmental repair, the influence of anthropocentrism in the social sciences, and facilitating cooperative efforts between anthropologists and conservation groups. My research and publications also examine issues related to environmental education, anti-environmentalism, and the role of rural elite and cultural ideology in community-based conservation initiatives.
Geographical/topical area of interest: My current research focuses cultural perceptions of, responses to, and decision making in the context of natural hazards and disasters. I am currently working in Japan and coastal New England as part of an interdisciplinary investigation into the study of low frequency, high impact hazards such as earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, typhoons and cross-cultural perceptions and responses to the threat and aftermath of hazards and disasters, decisions to implement preemptive protective measures, and how to increase awareness and preventative action among communities.
Spoon, Jeremy
Name: Dr Jeremy Spoon
Affiliation: Associate Professor, Anthropology Department, Portland State University; Senior Fellow, The Mountain Institute
Contact details: Anthropology Department, Portland State University, P.O. Box 751, Portland, Oregon, 97207; 1.503.725.9729; jspoon@pdx.edu
Statement of interest: I am an applied environmental anthropologist that focuses on the interface of indigenous peoples and mountainous protected areas. I also recently started a new project focusing on critical transitions of social-ecological systems after natural disasters.
Geographical/topical areas of interest: applied/environmental anthropology, ethnoecology, indigenous peoples, mountainous protected and conserved areas, place based spirituality, natural disasters, public education; Nepalese Himalaya, Western United States
Stellmach, Darryl
Name: Darryl Stellmach
Affiliation: University of Sydney & Médecins Sans Frontières
Contact details : Charles Perkins Centre – D17 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 T +61 2 8627 5102 | F +61 2 8627 1606 E darryl.stellmach@sydney.edu.au
Statement of interest: I am a medical anthropologist and former aid worker, interested in collaborations at the intersection of climate, the environment and humanitarianism. Humanitarian relief activities are predicated on punctual, short-term intervention in the immediate wake of conflict or disaster. Yet increasingly humanitarian relief is becoming an indefinite in duration, and a de facto form of government in the absence of other forms of polity. This state of affairs seems set to amplify in the near future, as the humanitarian consequences of climate change become more apparent. I hope to undertake work to predict and mitigate the worst of these effects.
Geographical/topical area of interest: Climate change and health; climate change and disasters; climate change and conflict; climate migration; famine, undernutrition and food insecurity; lead poisoning; artisanal mining.
Sullivan, Sian
Name: Sian Sullivan
Affiliation: Bath Spa University
Contact details: s.sullivan@bathspa.ac.uk Field of Culture and Environment, Bath Spa University, Newton Park, Newton St. Loe, Bath, BA2 9BN, UK
Statement of interest: I am interested in Cultural landscapes and culturenature ontologies; neoliberal biodiversity conservation and socio-cultural impacts of conservation landscapes; the financialisation of nature, including conservation banking and biodiversity offsetting; Political Ecology; KhoeSan ethnography; Constructions of value. Ongoing research projects: Future Pasts: Sustainabilities and Cultural Landscapes in West Namibia www.futurepasts.net - funded primarily through the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council's Care for the Future theme (ref. AH/K005871/2). The Leverhulme Centre for the Study of Value (www.thestudyofvalue.org) - dedicated to understanding how new and competing ways of valuing social and environmental harm and care present both challenges and opportunities in a rapidly changing world.
Geographical/topical area of interest: Namibia, UK/Europe, global,