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An Australian Parliament to Recognize and Revive Indigenous Languages for the First Time in the Nation\u27s History
Get PDFCINE Publishes Encyclopedia Detailing the Diets of Indigenous Groups in Canada, Alaska, Greenland, and Northern US
Get PDFPrioritizing Women\u27s Knowledge in Climate Change: Preparing for my Dissertation Research in Indonesia
Get PDFThe implications of climate change are serious for small-scale farmers, particularly those dependent on high value commodity crops, like cacao, to sustain their livelihoods. Of these small-scale farmers, women are disproportionately impacted by the risks and variability attributed to global climate change, yet they are often overlooked in strategy and policy developments for adaptation or mitigation. Local and indigenous women\u27s voices and knowledges especially are missing from global conversations regarding climate change. Sarah Eissler, a PhD Candidate in Rural Sociology, will spend half of 2017 in Sulawesi, Indonesia, investigating and collecting women\u27s voices, knowledge, and experiences, along with opinions in regards to climate change for small-scale cacao producers. This article discusses the preparation involved in conducting a six-month field stay in Indonesia as well as background literature and influences pertaining to a research project that prioritizes women\u27s and indigenous knowledge
Cultivating Health in Landscapes of Uncertainty: Mystery Kidney Disease and Agrarian Transformation in Dry Zone Sri Lanka
Get PDFSince the first reports of a mysterious new form of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKDu) emerged in the early 1990s, Sri Lanka\u27s dry zone has become the epicenter of an epidemic that is slowly crippling agricultural communities across the island\u27s rice belt. In this field report, I provide a detailed description of my fieldwork in two "CKDu hotspots" including an overview of my research design and some preliminary research findings. This work is grounded in feminist methodology and integrates ethnographic and archival fieldwork conducted in the United Kingdom and Sri Lanka over the summers of 2013 and 2015 as well as eleven months of research in Sri Lanka over 2016-17. This article elaborates on fieldwork that I undertook across a range of sites including libraries, farmers\u27 fields, kidney screening clinics, and government offices. Collectively, an analysis of this data provides a deeper understanding of how the problem of CKDu reconfigures human-environment interactions, subjectivities, and relations of expertise in areas where the disease is endemic
