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Eel Project

This note is about a project with eels as the key stakeholder.

Cf.

  • previous project iterations
  • topical notes:
  • related concepts:
    • biopolitics
    • Anthropocene
    • biosphere, noosphere, technosphere
    • Earth system governance, planetary governance
    • critical ecology, ecocriticism
    • environmental studies
    • Critical Life Studies, book series by Columbia University Press
    • biocivilisations
    • Politics, Political Ontology
    • riverhood
    • hydrosocial geographies
    • witnessing
    • reenactment 1 and reenactment studies 2

Approaches to History

  • geospatial analysis including historical GIS
  • Historical Ecology
  • Environmental History
  • forensic architecture
  • forensic ecologies 3, 4, 5 The typical way to understand "forensic ecology" is as a way to produce evidence to support legal cases about human crimes.
  • sentinels of the environment 6
  • historical reconstructions of environments and events using archaeological and historical data
  • data journalism
  • reconstruction design, reconstructing historical buildings, artefacts, technology such as boats physically and putting them into action to verify the extend and characteristics of their functionality. Digital reconstruction for visualisation, analysis, and interactive engagement
  • HBIM, historical building information modelling
  • reconstruction of paleo-environments, paleo-climates, paleo-ecologies, paleopedology for example reconstruction of geomorphology or hominin landscapes
  • reconstruction of tectonic movements, sea levels, and other geological events
  • alternative histories, for example in artificial life experiments, Dawkins's experiments, simulations of alternative scenarios of extinction events, etc.

Approaches to history and uses or history are different in different fields such as ecology, heritage, design, humanities, social sciences, Indigenous studies, food studies, and more.

Objectives:

  • merge anthropocentric and other histories
  • extend the histories into deep past
  • reconsider histories as parts of present and future
  • expand histories to include disempowered and non-human agents
  • use histories as a source of inspiration and workable examples for the design of the future

Methods

  • anticipatory ethnography, anthropology of the future

Pink, Sarah. “Futures Anthropology for the Polycrisis.” Anthropological Forum, 2025, 1–18. https://doi.org/10/hbcw3d.

Voorst, Roanne van. “Futures Thinking as Collaborative Practice in Anthropology.” Anthropology Today 41, no. 2 (2025): 15–19. https://doi.org/10/hbcv5c.

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RCA: River Co-Learning Arenas

Souza, Daniele Tubino de, Lena Hommes, Arjen Wals, Jaime Hoogesteger, Rutgerd Boelens, Bibiana Duarte-Abadía, Juan Pablo Hidalgo-Bastidas, et al. “River Co-Learning Arenas: Principles and Practices for Transdisciplinary Knowledge Co-Creation and Multi-Scalar (Inter)Action.” Local Environment 30, no. 1 (2025): 58–80. https://doi.org/10/hbczbb.

References

Peterson, Jesse D. 2024. “Ethical Challenges in Mariculture: Adopting a Feminist Blue Humanities Approach.” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 37 (1): 3. https://doi.org/10/g9xg2j.

Voorst, Roanne van. “Futures Thinking as Collaborative Practice in Anthropology.” Anthropology Today 41, no. 2 (2025): 15–19. https://doi.org/10/hbcv5c.

Footnotes

  1. Agnew, Vanessa. “Introduction: What Is Reenactment?” Criticism 46, no. 3 (2004): 327–39. https://doi.org/10/cbn4d6.˄

  2. Agnew, Vanessa, Jonathan Lamb, and Juliane Tomane, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Reenactment Studies: Key Terms in the Field. London: Routledge, 2020.˄

  3. Pugliese, Joseph. Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human: Forensic Ecologies of Violence. Anima: Critical Race Studies Otherwise. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.˄

  4. Wiltshire, Patricia. “Forensic Ecology.” In Crime Scene to Court, edited by Niamh NicDaeid and Peter C. White, 62–107. Croydon: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2024.˄

  5. See the chapter on "forensic ecology" in Gandy, Matthew. Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022.˄

  6. Keck, Frédéric. “Sentinels for the Environment: Birdwatchers in Taiwan and Hong Kong.” China Perspectives 2015, no. 2 (2015): 43–52. https://doi.org/10/ghkhx6.˄

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