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
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
Environment and Anthropology Network Inaugural Meeting, Cologne, 12-13 December 2019 The DELTA project is involved in organising the inaugural meeting of the Environment and Anthropology (EnvironAnt)… Read more
Floods, memories and resilience What can we learn from studying people's flood memories? And how do these memories relate to resilience? Read more
Fragile ground, contested soil in places of wetness A recent publication by a DELTA project team member illustrates how wetland farmers negotiated access, control and… Read more
Call for papers on "Deltas as living landscapes" Discuss with us the relationship between the 'delta' label designating particular regions, and the everyday life and… Read more
DeltaLab#2 - Infrastructure On our second lab session, we explore the puzzling world of infrastructure. This blog post reflects some ideas, thoughts… Read more
Rewilding salmon spillover This post tells a story about an attempt at rewilding a river in Lapland with salmon, and what this can tell us about… Read more
