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2017, Interface
2017 is tense and uncertain. Diagnosing the current moment, with its ecological, political and economic crises, and prescribing strategies for transcending and interrupting these crises are challenges that generate discussion and confusion. It is in these sorts of moments that Interface seems particularly relevant, as a space to " learn from each other's struggles " as we all, in our different movements and research contexts, attempt to understand the nature of the present crisis.
2021 •
At the end of 2019 the world was shocked by a severe pandemic that disrupted people's everyday life. Far from being just a health crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic has severe impacts on societies and economies, and it exacerbates existing human inequalities (UNSDG, 2020, p.3). It is forcing individuals and governments to reset priorities and to rethink how the new normal should look like. This critical moment in the history of humankind is characterized by the coexistence of multiple interconnected crises: a health crisis is complicated by an economic, a social, and last but not least, the environmental and climate ones. Scientifically, each crisis has its own unique specificities, but at the same time these crises are linked to each other by common factors. Some of them also originate from the same causes and provoke similar effects, having strong socio-economic repercussions on societal structures. While a dominant sentiment caused by the pandemic is the one of uncertaintly, we ar...
Ecology and Society
Are we entering an era of concatenated global crises? Ecology and Society 16(2): 272011 •
American Ethnology Society Website
Introduction, Intersecting Crises Collection, American Ethnological Society Website2020 •
This essay is an introduction to a collection of essays on "Intersecting Crises," which I edited for the American Ethnological Society website in October 2020. The essays offer an ethnographically grounded approach to crises and their intersections with the Covid-19 pandemic. In this introduction, I critically reflect on the ubiquity of crisis talk and the questions it raises: What is a crisis, and who has the power to define an event or condition as such? How and when do crises begin or end? How are crises experienced and responded to, and how are such responses shaped by identity and social position? Rather than thinking of “crisis” as an external shock to an otherwise stable and functioning system, the essays develop processual understandings that recognize the diverse forces and agencies that produce what come to be understood as crises over long spans of time.
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
What is the crisis? Defining and prioritizing the world's most pressing problems2008 •
Anthropology in Action
Navigating Crises of Scale in the AnthropoceneIn our contemporary era, anthropologists are increasingly tasked with studying crises of scale—that is, studying issues related to existential threats such as ecological degradation, inequality, and suffering amid landscapes of uncertainty. Such work takes an emotional toll that is rarely acknowledged in anthropological literature. In this article, using our work on plastics as a lens, we ask what anthropologists have to offer that is of real problem-solving value and how they can sustain their resilience during such engagement. We proffer a stance that we term ‘pragmatic melioration’, which focuses on harm reduction and problem solving (albeit imperfect) in the messiness of the here-and-now, and speak to how such a stance has helped us stay motivated despite reflexive distress.
For the latest developments in my understanding see Facing a Precipice in 2024: Going from Working within the Collapse of Nature and Humanity to Working for the Care of People and Planet.
Many of us recognise that humanity faces the greatest emergency in our existence – a crisis far deeper and more complex than many of us are able to recognise. Our emergency comprises many catastrophic risks, including resource scarcity, ecological collapse and extinction, global overheating, food insecurity, weapons of mass destruction, global and local pollution with ongoing poisoning of air, waters and lands, pandemic diseases, population overgrowth, and uncontrolled new technologies. Underlying these risks is widespread apathy to Beauty, Goodness, Truth, and a Sense of the Sacred in All Living Beings on our Planet, with many people trapped in all sorts of collective and individual delusions. Many voices have raised their concerns about these threats – and here I add mine to them. These risks are all interlinked. None of them can be solved simply in isolation. However, they can be overcome – with universal cooperation, persistent goodwill, and bold determination. No government yet has a comprehensive plan for dealing with these inter-acting sets of risks that endanger our civilization, our own and children’s futures, and life on our Planet as an abundant ecosystem and home for all species. Here we call on the governments, institutions, cultures, and peoples of our Planet to develop a clear plan and a pathway for Human Survival in the 21st century, URGENTLY. We also urge the propagation of local and worldwide discourses across and amongst diverse actors, with all of us working, planning, and acting NOW, to address all of these risks, altogether, in ways that make none of them worse. Here we make a delicately nuanced attempt to envision fairer, safer, healthier, and more sustainable futures for all peoples and all living beings on our Planet. (Adapted from a recent The Council for the Human Future statement)
What is missing in current models of WELLBEING FOR ALL WITHIN PLANETARY BOUNDARIES? Short answer: Ever-present Sacred Nature, with four expressions of Love: • Agape, from Sacred Nature (heart-soul-body of Being) into each precious existence, from Sacred Nature into many existences • Eros, from each precious existence into the fullness of Sacred Nature, from each existence and many existences into Sacred Nature • Agency, being oneself in precious existence, and being our selves in precious communion, growing from child into adult into evermore conscious participation in the fullness of Sacred Nature, in the Tribhuvana (svar [heaven], bhuvas [air], and bhū [earth]) in the Vedic East, and in the tripartite Kosmos (pneuma-spiritus-heart, psyche-anima-soul, and soma-corpus-body) in the Greek-Latin-West • Philia, from one to an other in friendship, from “me” and/or “us” to “you” to “all of us in precious communion,” inter-relating with each other. But, many people, with modern, postmodern, and metamodern mindsets, say, instead of Love (Agape-Eros-Agency-Philia), what matters is matter, and whatever the current matter is, it is habitually reduced to what is utilitarian and measurable. So, let us wonder here: what does Love (Agape-Eros-Agency-Philia) look like in people, cultures, and organisations that inhabit • shareholder value (ever-increasing BAU financial returns)? • shared value (using Environmental, Social and Governance [ESG], or UN Sustainable Development Goals [SDGs], or another set of criteria)? • system value (working for WELLBEING FOR ALL WITHIN PLANETARY BOUNDARIES [Earth4All, Doughnut Economics, Degrowth Movement, r3.0’s GTAC, et al.])? • integrative thriveability for everybody with everybody? We summarise our predicament with this statement: There can be no material-mental health in our current various unsustainable eco-ego-destructive worlds, although Love (Agape-Eros-Agency-Philia), in all four ways, is always ever-present, in various degrees, from child to sage, and truly immeasurable!
–- semantic expansion of alloymetal work artifacts in cargo manifests -- signified on Lothal sealings 7220, 7252 and Unicorn seal L-219 Text 7282 --14 illustrated inscriptions L-219. Text 7282 Meaning, artha: Trade (and metalwork wealth production) of kōnda sangara 'metalwork engraver'... PLUS (wealth categories cited.). koḍa 'sluice'; Rebus: koḍ 'artisan's workshop' koḍa 'one' rebus: koḍ 'workshop' ayo 'fish' rebus: aya 'iron' ayas 'alloy metal' (R̥ gveda) dhāḷ 'slanted stroke' rebus: dhāḷako 'ingot' PLUS खाां डा (p. 116) khāṇḍā A jag, notch, or indentation (as upon the edge of a tool or weapon). khaṇḍa 'implements'. Thus, ingots and implements PLUS dula 'pair' rebus: dul 'metal casting' Circumscript gaṇḍa 'four' rebus: khaṇḍa 'implements' PLUS ayo 'fish' rebus: aya 'iron' ayas 'alloy metal' (R̥ gveda) ayo 'fish' rebus: aya 'iron' ayas 'alloy metal' (R̥ gveda) PLUS dhāḷ 'slanted stroke' rebus: dhāḷako 'ingot'. Metalwork engraver alloymetal ingots, implements workshop See 'Unicorn deciphered' on four ppt slides appended. Unicorn signifies engraver, turner, messenger, treasure-guard handling the wealth cargo of alloymetalcastings.
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