Embodied Inequalities of the Anthropocene: Inside the Medicine Anthropology Theory special issue

Online Zoom presentation and discussion.

Join the Embodied Inequalities of the Anthropocene project, a collaboration between UCL (UK), CIESAS Pacifico-Sur (Mexico), and UFRGS (Brazil) to hear about the papers in this special issue and for the opportunity to speak with authors. 

The consequences of post-industrial human activity on health, are increasingly stark, yet there is no unified discourse that speaks to causes and responsibilities of the uneven and embodied health impacts of the ‘Anthropocene’ epoch, nor of the restorative actions that are needed. This creates an urgent need for theoretically developing and exploring, from Medical Anthropology, the relationship and entanglements of human bodies with extractivist projects, industrial meat production, more-than-human assemblages, environment altering plantations, polluted rivers that become border crossings, microbial journeys and ecosyndemics, among other themes.

A link to this issue:  http://www.medanthrotheory.org/issue/view/537

The event will run from 5.30-7.30pm and will include individual presentations from each author and a discussion on the four themes of the special issue: Indigenous ontologies and territories, COVID-19 and the Anthropocene, Plantations and Toxic Ecologies.