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Students from our MA Global Futures Sustainability and Futures have been busy thinking about climate change, global inequality, sustainability. In a series of blogs, they present their ideas. First up is Sara Eisya Ghozali's exploration of the sustainability of make-up products.

The shimmer in your makeup is more than just aesthetics—it tells a story of exploitation, resilience, and ethical challenges. The blog uncovers the truth behind the mineral mica. soas.ac.uk/about/blogs/sp… Alice Rudge

Alice Rudge In this blog, Sara Naseem explores the hidden impacts of the tourism industry and the need for truly sustainable practices in Maldives. soas.ac.uk/about/blogs/re…

Out now on FirstView, don't miss Alyssa Paredes's "Topographies of Fungibility: Reinventing the Japanese Taste for Sweetness in the Philippine Highlands." #Banana #Japan #Taiwan #Philippines #Commodities #Anthropology doi.org/10.1017/S00104…

As we encounter ecological distress in our classrooms and work, how might old and new anthropological insights shape how we respond to and understand—even help to repair—this distress? Alice Rudge @NiksSimpson and Saad Quasem have suggestions: culanth.org/fieldsights/se…

We also recently published this three-part Teaching Tools series on teaching ecological distress, edited by SOAS Department Of Anthropology's Alice Rudge, @NiksSimpson, and Saad Quasem: culanth.org/fieldsights/se…

Looking forward to this Society for Cultural Anthropology SCA Fridays conversation with @NiksSimpson , Saad Quasem SOAS Department Of Anthropology - alongside the ecological distress collective including Kerry Ryan Chance, Bridget Bradley, and Gerimis Art Project! Friday 11-12 EST, 4pm UK time, or 12am Malaysia time!

You can register for our next SCA Fridays—on ecological distress—here (or at the QR code below): zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Are Malaysia's peatlands a wasteland or a gold mine? This essay explores colonial legacies and metaphors for valuing wetlands: culanth.org/fieldsights/pe…

Reminder that our next SCA Fridays is coming up! You can register here: zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Alice Rudge In this one, MA student Tara Breuer explores whether B Corp certification drives corporate accountability and systemic change or serves as a sophisticated form of greenwashing in a world increasingly demanding ethical business practice. soas.ac.uk/about/blogs/to…

CAMHRA Public Launch: Inaugural Lecture by Dr Bhrigupati Singh ‘What can and cannot be quantified: Thoughts for a new alliance of anthropology and mental health’ Opening remarks by Prof. Laura Hammond (Deputy Vice-Chancellor) 28 April, 5:30–8:30pm eventbrite.com/e/camhra-inaug…

There is a temporal rupture in the ways facts about tropical rainforests have come to be understood not only in Peruvian Amazonia, but across the world, over the last decade. Eduardo Romero Dianderas in our newest Theorizing the Contemporary series.

While sugar itself is usually easily metabolized by the human body, the enormity of violence in sugar’s history is hard for sugarcane scientists to fully incorporate in their research. Katie Ulrich (@katieulrich.bsky.social) in our newest Theorizing the Contemporary series.

Very much looking forward to this!

The insatiable consumption of concrete leads to the extraction of geologically finite resources and the release of carbon dioxide. Searching for alternative construction materials features centrally in debates about climate change and the Anthropocene. culanth.org/fieldsights/st…

"The monograph’s immense contribution is in its analysis of language, in terms of its synthesis of the Batek voice and its reflection on how voice can function," writes Faizah Zakaria for Indigenous Religious Traditions of SENSING OTHERS by Alice Rudge. bit.ly/43WCHxg

I loved reading and reviewing this book by Alice Rudge ...her writing immerses us into the rainforests and it's cadences.

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New #OpenAccess entry on 'Sustainability' out in the Open Encyclopedia of #Anthropology Written by Prof. Alice Rudge at SOAS Department Of Anthropology Find it here: buff.ly/moaVRJj