While the proliferation of industrial toxic substances over the past century has had drastic
environmental and bodily effects, conventional methods of measuring and mitigating those …

This essay principally meditates on the scholarship published by sociocultural
anthropologists in 2019. In 2019, the field of anthropology confronted anthropogenic climate …

Recent anthropological attention to more‐than‐human life has neglected the importance of
race and racialization in human responses to environmental change. Drawing on …

In cities around the world, the removal of waste materials is a critical part of everyday life.
Workers, both formal and informal, engage in intimate forms of labor that separate these …

Abstract Breakdown, trespass, seepage, degradation: this is late industrialism. Over the past
decade, the term has become synonymous with collapse, describing everything from …

ABSTRACT The City of Baltimore, MD has a history of problems with environmental justice
(EJ), air pollution, and the urban heat island (UHI) effect. Current chemical transport models …

Abstract Until 2016, South Baltimoreans debated a proposed incinerator. Those debates
were manifestly about local land use, but rumors spread that something else was really …

As sustainability gains popularity in public discourse, scholars have noted its diverse uses,
multiple meanings, and contradictory outcomes. This paper explores how the current …

Rural communities in eastern North Carolina are responding to the emergence of bioenergy
development as an extension of environmental injustices, rather than sustainable solutions …

Fifteen years ago, Jane Guyer (2007) argued that the near future had largely disappeared
from collective imaginaries, replaced by longer-term horizons associated with evangelical …