This article is authored by Sagarika Phalke, conservation psychologist and Seema Lokhandwala, wildlife biologist and conservation scientist.

In 2010 I conducted research on 3-sheep trialling in NSW – at the time, it was a competition whereby the humans - mainly older, rural white males - and sheepdogs -almost all border collies- collaborat...

'Chants of Sennaar' is an interesting and impressive game that ultimately feels more than a bit academic.

Tractable pigs and binary confounding companions

The NSW mounted police recently turned 200 years old and while the city held a celebratory parade, anticop notes that the unit has a very dark history.

While obsessed with trucks (and all manner of vehicles), I do not believe my son, Seth, wishes to be a truck driver. Rather, he wants to be a truck. Seth doesn't just talk about trucks or cars; he d...

Consuming our most intimate waste

Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.

How the rootling place wants to help you wander

An introduction

Pigs rootle to eat, play, and know. As omnivorous animals, they use their snouts to disturb the soil, uncover foods and understand their environment and other pigs.

Pigs rootle to eat, play, and know. As omnivorous animals, they use their snouts to disturb the soil, uncover foods and understand their environment and other pigs.

Werner Herzog peers into the Angolan highlands in search of colossal elephants, and ends up gently reflecting on the ghosts of human longing.

I work on issues of multispecies ethnography, more-than-human relations, conservation and biosecurity, local ecological knowledge, heritagization, and archaeology. I am Phd. in anthropology and a prof...

They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat

Full time, fixed term for 2 years Opportunity to conduct research on Multispecies justice Academic Level B Base Salary from $127,436 + 17% superannuation About the opportunity The School of Social and...

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SUMMARYFungi use light as a signal for the regulation of development, to guide the growth of reproductive structures, and to protect the fungal cell from DNA damage produced by light and UV radiation....

Wondering what it means to forage? Foraging isn't just about food – it’s a chance to understand the ecosystems that we live in, and appreciate the true value of ingredients.

What does it mean for scholars to engage rocks ethnographically? And how is ethnography redefined back by an encounter with lithics? Although rock has long lingered in the background of sociocultural ...

The substitution of Large Language Models for genuine thinking is a generational threat. At stake is no less than the life of the mind.

Humanimalia

Microplastics have been found in the placentas of unborn babies, the depths of the Mariana Trench, the summit of Everest and the organs of Antarctic penguins. But how do they travel through the world,...

An archive of mischief-making zines and radical geographic print ephemera

The rise of the internet age and digital spaces has created a whole new world for ethnographic investigation.

Take a closer look at the Asian elephant through the eyes of Indian court painters

Chaseworld is a study of the foxhunters in the Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey. Mary Hufford examines the activities that occur before, during, and after...