Tag: optimism

  • Head under water, with a deep bow of thanks.

    I’ve had a short break from teaching this last week. I thought I was going to explore potential fieldwork sites in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, but for a foreigner that...

    By activism, Anthropology, theory

  • Improvising Muesli

    Making affordable muesli for a shamefully change-averse palette from local ingredients

    By Serendipidity

  • Very quiet sounds

    Chittagong is a raucous tumult. The racket is penetrating and ceaseless: horns, screams, brakes, creaking ceiling fans, the tinnital whine of tube lights, the grind of suffering transmissions, rickshaw bells,...

    By fieldwork, Serendipidity

  • interspecies play as the antidote

    That recent post, ‘The Myth of Sustainability‘, is a short realist critique of sustainability. Here I want to dig under the realism and pull out the more profound challenges. Then...

    By Uncategorized

  • The myth of sustainability

    In recent conversations I have heard the word ‘sustainable’ used as an unthinking excuse, an adequate gesture of compensation for violent and massive environmental destruction, one too many times. Most...

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