Past events
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Declan Murray (University of Manchester) The Plastic Divide: Global environmentalism and the search for life in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
14:00 - 16:00 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...
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Alistair Lomas (University of Manchester). Revolution, salvation, seaweed: Toward an anthropology of hype
14:00 - 16:00 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...
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