Introducing Foraging: a podcast in environmental humanities Castos https://ercforagency-podcasts.castos.com This podcast stems from the ERC Starting Grant FORAGENCY. Foraging, Colonialism and More-than-Human Agency in Central Africa. Throughout the project’s timespan, we will use this platform to shed light on the ever-expanding domain of environmental humanities. We will showcase exciting research, creative endeavours, as well as our own work in progress. For the inaugural season of Foraging, we have invited emerging and confirmed voices in history and anthropology to talk about their ongoing work. We discussed how their groundbreaking, critical approaches can challenge anthropocentric biases in the humanities, and we tried to sketch out, together, new ways of finding hope in the Anthropocene. Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:17:53 +0000 en © 2024 https://episodes.castos.com/66f535ae52adb3-27111501/images/podcast/covers/c1a-dr2zx-nd45vdzxso8k-vxku60.jpg Introducing Foraging: a podcast in environmental humanities https://ercforagency-podcasts.castos.com This podcast stems from the ERC Starting Grant FORAGENCY. Foraging, Colonialism and More-than-Human Agency in Central Africa. Throughout the project’s timespan, we will use this platform to shed light on the ever-expanding domain of environmental humanities. We will showcase exciting research, creative endeavours, as well as our own work in progress. For the inaugural season of Foraging, we have invited emerging and confirmed voices in history and anthropology to talk about their ongoing work. We discussed how their groundbreaking, critical approaches can challenge anthropocentric biases in the humanities, and we tried to sketch out, together, new ways of finding hope in the Anthropocene. Michiel Dermauw episodic This podcast stems from the ERC Starting Grant FORAGENCY. Foraging, Colonialism and More-than-Human Agency in Central Africa. Throughout the project’s timespan, we will use this platform to shed light on the ever-expanding domain of environmental humanities. We will showcase exciting research, creative endeavours, as well as our own work in progress. For the inaugural season of Foraging, we have invited emerging and confirmed voices in history and anthropology to talk about their ongoing work. We discussed how their groundbreaking, critical approaches can challenge anthropocentric biases in the humanities, and we tried to sketch out, together, new ways of finding hope in the Anthropocene. Michiel Dermauw michiel.dermauw@vub.be false https://feeds.castos.com/mj2z6 yes <![CDATA[Episode 1.04 Iva Peša on the histories of pollution]]> Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:17:53 +0000 Michiel Dermauw https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/62679/episode/1921577 https://ercforagency-podcasts.castos.com/episodes/episode-104-iva-pesa-on-the-histories-of-pollution Iva Peša is assistant professor of contemporary history at the University of Groningen, and the principal investigator of the ERC Starting Grant AFREXTRACT: Environmental Histories of Resource Extraction in Africa: Understanding Cultural and Political Responses to Environmental Transformation. We discussed how to approach pollution as an historical topic, the added value of thinking about ecological disruptions from the bottom-up, the use of literary sources in environmental history, and the validity of Anthropocene as a concept.

 

For more information on AFREXTRACT, please visit their website: http://www.rug.nl/let/AFREXTRACT/

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For more information on AFREXTRACT, please visit their website: http://www.rug.nl/let/AFREXTRACT/

]]> 00:37:10 <![CDATA[Episode 1.03 Emelien Devos on multispecies anthropology]]> Mon, 09 Dec 2024 10:44:22 +0000 Michiel Dermauw https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/62679/episode/1917490 https://ercforagency-podcasts.castos.com/episodes/episode-103-emelien-devos-on-multispecies-anthropology At the time of recording, Emelien Devos was putting the finishing touches to her PhD dissertation at the University of Ghent, titled “Self-willed Growth: A More-than-human ethnography in West Tanzania”. Her brilliant work on multispecies entanglements and their repercussion on food consumption addresses urgent global issues from the vantage point of ecosystems and human communities that seldom reach public awareness in the global North. In this episode, Emelien discusses what an anthropology “beyond the human” can mean, differing understanding of what counts as “natural” and “healthy”, as well as multispecies uses of space.

]]> false At the time of recording, Emelien Devos was putting the finishing touches to her PhD dissertation at the University of Ghent, titled “Self-willed Growth: A More-than-human ethnography in West Tanzania”. Her brilliant work on multispecies entanglements and their repercussion on food consumption addresses urgent global issues from the vantage point of ecosystems and human communities that seldom reach public awareness in the global North. In this episode, Emelien discusses what an anthropology “beyond the human” can mean, differing understanding of what counts as “natural” and “healthy”, as well as multispecies uses of space.

]]> 01:04:20 <![CDATA[Foraging episode 1.02 Kwame Edwin Otu on the queerness of waste]]> Mon, 02 Dec 2024 10:18:33 +0000 Michiel Dermauw https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/62679/episode/1912136 https://ercforagency-podcasts.castos.com/episodes/foraging-episode-102-kwame-edwin-otu-on-the-queerness-of-waste The second guest of Foraging is anthropologist Kwame Edwin Otu, associate Professor in the African Studies Program of Georgetown University. His doctoral research on the Sasso, a community of self-identified effeminate men living in the Jamestown district of Accra, served as the groundwork for his first monograph, Amphibious Subjects, published by the University of California Press in 2022. In this episode, Kwame delved on his ongoing research project, an ethnography of the pickers toiling in one of the world’s largest e-waste dumps. He also reflected on how his previous research on queerness informed and shaped his trajectory in environmental anthropology. We further discussed the notion of waste, and how to approach non-human entities in anthropology.

]]> false The second guest of Foraging is anthropologist Kwame Edwin Otu, associate Professor in the African Studies Program of Georgetown University. His doctoral research on the Sasso, a community of self-identified effeminate men living in the Jamestown district of Accra, served as the groundwork for his first monograph, Amphibious Subjects, published by the University of California Press in 2022. In this episode, Kwame delved on his ongoing research project, an ethnography of the pickers toiling in one of the world’s largest e-waste dumps. He also reflected on how his previous research on queerness informed and shaped his trajectory in environmental anthropology. We further discussed the notion of waste, and how to approach non-human entities in anthropology.

]]> 00:41:34 <![CDATA[Episode 1.01. Diogo De Carvhalo Cabral on history beyond the human ]]> Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:28:00 +0000 Michiel Dermauw https://permalink.castos.com/podcast/62679/episode/1876641 https://ercforagency.eu/index.php/podcast/episode-1-diogo-cabral/ For the first episode of Foraging, we hosted Prof. Diogo de Carvhalo Cabral, of Trinity College Dublin. Diogo is a fascinating voice in more-than-human history. His groundbreaking research on the relations between leaf-cutting ants and human communities in 19th century Brazilian Atlantic Forest opened new avenues in multispecies history. Recently, Diogo has co-edited the excellent volume More-than-Humain Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean, published by the University of London Press. We talked about this recent publication, his encounter with environmental history and more-than-human approaches, as well as the new frontiers of environmental humanities.  

]]> false For the first episode of Foraging, we hosted Prof. Diogo de Carvhalo Cabral, of Trinity College Dublin. Diogo is a fascinating voice in more-than-human history. His groundbreaking research on the relations between leaf-cutting ants and human communities in 19th century Brazilian Atlantic Forest opened new avenues in multispecies history. Recently, Diogo has co-edited the excellent volume More-than-Humain Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean, published by the University of London Press. We talked about this recent publication, his encounter with environmental history and more-than-human approaches, as well as the new frontiers of environmental humanities.  

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