Past events
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Jieun Kim (Leeds). Blood and Citizenship in a Fragmented Nation: Logics of Gift, Debt and Inheritance in South Korea
15:00 - 17:00 24 March 2025
Drawing on archival materials and interviews with donors, blood bank staff, and experts, this talk explores how the logics of gift, debt and inheritance shape the moral and affective economies of citizenship in South Korea. From hematologists’ reflections on introducing blood banking in the mid-twentieth century to the national crisis narrative...
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Maria Abranches (East Anglia). When the Dust Settles: Exploring Temporalities amongst Reunited Refugee Families through Multi-Media Narratives
15:00 - 17:00 31 March 2025
This seminar will reflect on the results of one year of fieldwork with refugee families in Manchester and Glasgow using a co-production approach based on narrative interviews and participant-led photography and film to understand post-reunion lived experience. While the consequences of separation following displacement, and the most immediate needs...
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Maron Greenleaf (Dartmouth College). Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon – Book talk
15:00 - 17:00 28 April 2025
The book Forest Lost (Duke, 2024) is an ethnography of forest carbon offsets and the wider effort to make the living rainforest valuable in the Brazilian Amazon. Unlike other forest commodities, forest carbon offsets do not involve resource extraction; instead, they require keeping carbon in place through forest protection. In this book I explore...
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Alistair Lomas (University of Manchester). Revolution, salvation, seaweed: Toward an anthropology of hype
15:00 - 17:00 29 September 2025
While undertaking research into seaweed cultivation on the west coast of Scotland in 2022-23, I struggled to understand a gap between what was being written and spoken about seaweed farming in the media, industry reports and conferences, and what I was observing empirically in my fieldsite. According to the former, I was seeing the beginning of...
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Declan Murray (University of Manchester) The Plastic Divide: Global environmentalism and the search for life in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
15:00 - 17:00 6 October 2025
On 1 June 2019 plastic bags were banned in Tanzania. The ban was driven by a global environmentalist narrative that plastic bags harm marine life and livestock; contribute to flooding events; and produce unsightly litter. Five years later, small polyethylene pouches remained integral to daily life for the majority of residents in Tanzania’s biggest...
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