Intersectional Ecologies: Reimagining Anthropology and Environment
Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
1-1-2021
Abstract
Drawing on the work of Black feminist scholars, this review suggests "intersectional ecologies" as a method for critically engaging anthropology's relationship with the environment across subfields, intellectual traditions, and authorial politics. Intersectional ecologies helps us trace how a broad coalition of scholars represents and accounts for the environment within shifting planetary arrangements of bodies, sites, practices, and technologies. Our basic argument in this article is that because the environment is a malleable and contingent social fact, it matters who is analyzing its formation and how they are analyzing it. To this end, the scholarship we review comes from a diverse array of authors. The three themes we have identified—materiality, knowledge, and subjectivity—are central to bringing this diverse scholarship into dialogue while putting into focus anthropology's uneven commitments to the environment as a concept.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
Annual Review of Anthropology
Volume
50
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Vaughn, Sarah E., Bridget Guarasci, and Amelia Moore. "Intersectional Ecologies: Reimagining Anthropology and Environment." Annual Review of Anthropology 50, (2021). doi: 10.1146/annurev-anthro-101819-110241.