EBEN KIRKSEY è un antropologo americano il cui lavoro esplora le intricate connessioni tra scienza e società. Le sue analisi illuminano come le scoperte scientifiche plasmano la nostra comprensione del mondo e come la società, a sua volta, influenzi l'indagine scientifica. L'approccio di Kirksey è caratterizzato dalla sua capacità di colmare profondi spunti accademici con un'ampia rilevanza sociale, offrendo ai lettori una prospettiva nuova su questioni contemporanee cruciali. La sua influenza si estende attraverso le istituzioni accademiche e nel più ampio discorso pubblico.
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?