Great rivers, great dams, great mess Two book reviews of ethnographies detailing life in the shadows of large hydropower dam projects were recently… Read more
New Publication: "Now what? Repositioning anthropology vis‐à‐vis climate change activism" In a contribution to a forum on climate activism and anthropology, a project member asks the difficult question, "Now… Read more
"Making and Unmaking Volatility" Workshop Report Published If you missed our recent workshop, you can now read a report with some of the highlights. Read more
DELTA’s 6th and final year has been approved The German Research Foundation (DFG) has generously allowed us to have one more year for our DELTA project. The DELTA… Read more
Workshop V: Making and unmaking volatility: contextualising crises in deltaic lifeworlds 13-15 January, 2021 The DELTA project is running its fifth and last workshop to discuss about the production and… Read more
"Crises, downside up" The VAD has chosen the text "Crises, downside up", written by a DELTA team member, as 'best essay on African politics'… Read more
Unnatural theory. Or: what the construction of the unnatural can tell us about how humans make meaning An essay reflecting on “the unnatural” has just been published in a collection on cultural theory, co-authored by a… Read more
New Publication "Grounded and Global: Water Infrastructure Development and Policymaking in the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar" Benoit Ivars and Jean-Philippe Venot’s article in Water Alternatives reflects on the history of land and water… Read more
CfP "Wet horizons: hydrosocial re-articulations in the Anthropocene" at EASA 2020, Lisbon We invite colleagues from anthropology and related disciplines to present their research and discuss "hydrosocial… Read more
EnviroAnt Network Inaugural Meeting: programme and remote participation The programme for the EnviroAnt workshop is finalised, and registration closed. But interested people can remotely… Read more
