ALT Screen shot of the series title in orange, and below the series image, depicting "A mixed herd of goats and sheep graze below the high passes in the Dhauladhar range of the Himalaya. The shepherds experience ecological stress mediated through the animals that they care for. Photo by Suraj Gupta shared with permission."

ALT Screen shot of some text from the linked intro: "In our classrooms we are increasingly encountering ecological distress, and many of our students seek anthropological thinking as a way of making sense of the everyday challenges of climate change and ecological destruction. As a collective, we see it as our responsibility to encourage critical inquiry about the ways in which ecological distress is a shared planetary problem, and the ways in which it is unevenly distributed, or incommensurable, across bodies, minds, landscapes, and within and between pedagogical spaces. How might old and new anthropological insights shape how we respond to and understand—even help to repair—ecological distress? The entries within this collection aim to encourage students—in and outside the university—to think through these kinds of questions. Our diverse collective of scholars and practitioners are based across the United Kingdom, the United States, Malaysia, India, Australia, Germany, & New Zealand..."

ALT Cover of "Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest"

ALT Screenshot of post title page, with article title in orange font on the left and colorful street art on the right. Post title: "Sugarcane Poetics and Pleasures"

ALT Screenshot of post title page, with article title in orange font on the left and colorful street art on the right. Post title: "Tracing Rainforests (Or a New Condition of Facticity in Amazonia)"

ALT Engaging Ecological Distress Friday, February 21st, 11-12pm ET Participants: Nikita Simpson, Alice Rudge, Saad Quasem, the Ecological Distress Collective Moderated by Anand Pandian

ALT Dole’s Gyokusen highland bananas with information on sugar content on sale at a typical middle-class-oriented supermarket in Kamakura (Source: author).