Environmental Anthropology
By: Mishel Tachet
The Environmental Anthropology column is a dedicated forum for students to share work that engages with the dynamic relationship between humans and non-humans. Environmental Anthropology is a subfield within the discipline that places emphasis on the ways that humans and non-humans influence and shape each other. In this context, non-humans is an all-encompassing term, including animals, organisms, and natural entities such as the weather, climate, ocean, or land. The subdiscipline has disputed the belief that nature is somehow separate from culture/humans and argues against the notion that culture imposes itself upon a “stagnant” nature. Topics within environmental anthropology vary from the impacts of climate change, how scientists conceptualize nature, the construction of non-human agency and depictions in various forms such as media or literature, or how animals and organisms are not so different from humans after all. Environmental Anthropology is inherently interdisciplinary, pulling from philosophy, social theorists, environmental and biological sciences, technology studies, the humanities, and much more. Students from all majors are encouraged to submit their work to the column, and submissions of all kinds such as photo essays, poetry and prose, research, essays, and book reviews are all welcome! If you are passionate about topics relating to the environment and how humans and nature are deeply intertwined, please consider sharing your work in this column.
If you have any questions regarding the column or your submission please reach out to the column editor at tachetmishel@berkeley.edu or reach out to the Handprint team at handprintberkeley@gmail.com.
Google form submission link- https://tinyurl.com/enviroanthrocolumn
