The Anthropology and Environment Society, now 700 strong, had a very productive year as evidenced at the recent meetings in San Francisco. We have a new public face, comprising a website, a Facebook page, and a Twitter feed at @AnthEnvironment. Aside from providing information on section activities, the website serves as a conduit for research findings in environmental anthropology and also provides some original content. Most notable has been the Engagement blog, edited by Rebecca Garvoille and Noah Theriault, with postings on real-world engagements and impacts by anthropologists. The Facebook page, coordinated by Amelia Moore, already has over 1,000 followers.
At the San Francisco meetings, A&E sponsored (or co-sponsored) three sessions: Ecological Anthropology 2012 (Yancey Orr and Sean Downey), Knowledge Boundaries: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges In Studying Indigenous Knowledge (Mark Moritz and Matthew Lauer), and Prognosis Politics: Visions of Resource Futures (Jessica Barnes). We also put on the annual Rappaport Student Award Panel (David Hoffman, Katja Neves, Crystal Fortwangler and Robert Fletcher), ran a dissertation workshop (Sarah Besky and Andrew Mathews), and a poster session. Courtney Carothers served as our program chair and we are deeply grateful for her outstanding work. She will serve as program chair for one more year, so questions and comments about panels and sponsorship should be directed to her at clcarothers@alaska.edu.
At the meetings we also recognized outstanding work by two junior scholars for exemplary articles in environmental anthropology. The Junior Scholar Prize, given annually to an untenured faculty (or recent PhD), went to Shaylih Muehlman for her 2012 article ?Rhizomes and Other Uncountables: The Malaise of Enumeration in Mexico?s Colorado River Delta,? inAmerican Ethnologist 39(2): 339-353. Muehlman is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia. The Rappaport Student Prize is awarded to a graduate student for a paper selected for presentation in the Rappaport Student Panel. It went to Sarah Osterhoudt of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies for her ?Clean Souls | Clear Fields: Environmental Imaginations and Christian Conversions In Northeastern Madagascar.?
The AES provides small grants for applied environmental projects. This year we funded Joshua Griffin?s project ?Towards an Environmental History of Kivalina, Alaska: A Collaborative Ethnography of Place, in Support of Climate-Induced Relocation.?
The three review committees were chaired by (respectively) Jim Igoe, Katja Neves-Graca and Justin Nolan.
We also sponsored an off-site reception at a nearby restaurant. It was a success and will be sponsored again at the Chicago meetings, in a location to be announced at the section business meeting.
A&E has been responsible for two task forces. The Global Climate Change Task Force was proposed by A&E, appointed by the AAA president and is chaired by Shirley Fiske. The task force had an active year, especially in the area of public outreach. Their work was featured on the section website, and an update on their activities is available at www.aaanet.org/cmtes/commissions/CCTF/gcctf.cfm. The section also formed a task force to contribute to the greening of the annual meetings by incorporating sustainable food into catered events. This task force was chaired by Crystal Fortwangler and it produced a white paper authored by Andrew Flachs. The section will continue to work with the AAA administration during the coming year.
In the spring elections, we added two new board members: Derick Fay and Michael Dove. Details on the current board are available on the section website.
Please send A&E news and reports to Amelia Moore at a.moore4@miami.edu.
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