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Illustration by Daia – Diana Grigore Notes for an Anthropology of Plastics Magdalena Crăciun Abstract Nowadays fossil-based plastics are ubiquitous. They are in our clothes, buildings, cars, and roads. Accumulations of very small pieces of plastics, called micro-plastics and nano-plastics, are present everywhere in nature and various organisms, including humans, with effects whose gravity we […]

Illustration by Oana Hajos A Short Introduction to Multispecies Studies and Ethnography Claudia Câmpeanu Abstract Multispecies studies is a field that was born out of the pressures generated by questioning the centrality of the human in a number of disciplines (anthropology, philosophy, history, feminist studies, ecology, art), by normalizing and extending questions and interests in

Illustration by Ioana Șopov Is Nature Found Within or Outside of Humans? Discussions from Anthropology and Other Disciplines Ioana Savin Abstract There is increasing public awareness and debate surrounding the relationship between the environment and human society, specifically focusing on the human-nature dichotomy. The essay draws on various fields such as environmental anthropology, social ecology,

Illustration by Kadna Anda An Ethnography of Disappearing Forests. On Power, Politics, and Scapegoats in a Village of Argeș County, Romania Ștefan Dorondel Abstract This piece looks at how Romania’s forests were destroyed by illegal logging after the Revolution of 1989. Based on my book Disrupted Landscapes. State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in