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
Armelle, Faure
Name: Dr Faure Armelle
Affiliation: International consultant and scholar
Contact details: Dr Armelle FAURE
Social Scientist - International Consultant
57 rue des Frères
31820 Pibrac FRANCE
Armelle.Faure@wanadoo.fr
Statement of interest: sharing with a community
Geographical/topical areas of interest: Water Management, Energy, Oral Archive History, Intangible Heritage,Large dams, nuclear power studies. Asia, Africa, Madagascar, France and Europe
Barnett-Naghshineh, Olivia
Name: Olivia Barnett-Naghshineh
Affiliation: University of Auckland
Contact details: oliviabarnett8838@gmail.com or onag259@aucklanduni.ac.nz
Statement of interest: I am an anthropologist working on environmental issues particularly relating to food in connections to urbanisation, markets, gender relations and climate change.
Geographical/topical area of interest: My PhD research was conducted in the highlands of Papua New Guinea and I am interested in the responses to and affects of climate change in the Pacific more broadly, particularly how it relates to food production.
Beldi de Alcantara, Maria de Lourdes
Name: Maria de Lourdes Beldi de Alcantara
Affiliation: University of São Paulo- Medical Anthropology
Contact details: marialcantara@icloud.com
Statement of interest: indugenous helath and environment
Geographical/topical area of interest: Brazil and Latin America
Benessaiah, Nejm
Name: Nejm Benessaiah
Affiliation: University of Maryland, USA
Contact details: nlbeness@umd.edu; nejben00@gmail.com
Statement of interest: My research is on the desert region of the M’zab valley, Algeria, and the role of micro social movements in attempting to manage unstable natural resources in the midst of social change in Algeria, especially labour, land tenure and water. Rather than looking at national or global movements alone, my research focuses on the micro-level of how changes from authoritarian to inclusive forms of governance are negotiated at the everyday level in the Algerian Sahara, and how these intersect with wider global scales. My current work centers on the potential for polycentric water governance across the Middle East & North Africa through the recognition of local means and strategies, in relation to varying notions of citizenship and legal pluralities across the region.
Geographical/topical area of interest: Environmental governance, environmental justice, social movements, political economy, personhood, postcolonialism, water materiality, ethics and rights, media and identity, urban ecology, agroecology, North Africa, Middle East, Sahara, Algeria.
Blount, Benjamin G.
Name: Benjamin G. Blount
Affiliation: SocioEcological Informatics
Contact details: ben.blount23@gmail.com +1 210 627 3265
Statement of interest: I was one of the founders of the Anthropology and Environment Section of the American Anthropological Association, and I have been engaged on ecological and environmental research on fishing communities in the southeastern US for two decades. My major work was as part of a research team developing social indicators for fishing community resilience and vulnerability.
Geographical/topical areas of interest: US South Atlantic Coast; US Gulf Coast; US Pacific Northwest Coast.