EBEN KIRKSEY est un anthropologue américain dont le travail explore les liens complexes entre la science et la société. Ses analyses éclairent la manière dont les découvertes scientifiques façonnent notre compréhension du monde et comment la société, à son tour, influence la recherche scientifique. L'approche de Kirksey se distingue par sa capacité à faire le pont entre de profondes perspectives académiques et une large pertinence sociétale, offrant aux lecteurs une nouvelle vision sur des questions contemporaines cruciales. Son influence s'étend à travers les institutions académiques et dans le discours public plus large.
In Emergent Ecologies Eben Kirksey insists that we should turn our attention toward small-scale ecologies and search for hope in the efforts of individuals who are building new ecologies, and in the plants, animals, and fungi that are flourishing in unexpected places.
West Papua has been occupied by the Indonesian military for forty years. The author, an anthropologist, went there planning to study the resistance movements working for independence. This title narrates the complexities of West Papuan attitudes, including their unfulfilled expectations of freedom following the fall of Suharto.
A new approach to writing culture has arrived: multispecies ethnography. Plants, animals, fungi, and microbes appear alongside humans in this singular book about natural and cultural history.
An anthropologist visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine, and technology to ask: whose values are guiding gene-editing experiments, and what are the implications for humanity?