Embodied Inequalities of the Anthropocene

This collaboration between UFRGS Brazil, CIESAS Mexico and UCL in the UK brings together experts to extend interdisciplinary engagement concerning how the Anthropocene epoch impacts on human health.

Watch Jean Segata: 'Feeding the end of the world: agribusiness, pandemics, and Anthropocene in Brazil' on YouTube.
Feeding the End of the World
Watch Embodied Inequalities: Elizabeth Roberts - ‘Grappling with lead in Mexico City’ on YouTube.
Grappling with Lead in Mexico City
Watch Embodied Inequalities: Renzo Taddei - 'Can the (Indigenous) subaltern speak (at the IPCC)?' on YouTube.
Can the (Indigenous) Subaltern Speak?
Watch Dário Kopenawa: Illegal mining in Yanomami Indigenous Territory and its consequences to my people on YouTube.
The Illegal Mining in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory (TI), in Brazil
Watch Embodied Inequalities: Heather Davis - ‘Plastic Matter: On Materiality, Plasticity and Toxicity’ on YouTube.
Plastic Matter: On Materiality, Plasticity and Toxicity
Watch Dr. Francisco Vergara-Silva: The ‘conquest of Mexico’ and the ‘patchy Anthropocene’ on YouTube.
The ‘Conquest of Mexico’ and the 'Patchy Anthropocene'
Watch Inside the Medicine Anthropology Theory special issue on YouTube.
Inside the Medicine Anthropology Theory
Watch Cosmocentrism & the right to resist extractivism among the Asháninka in Peru and Brazil on YouTube.
The Contemporary Experience of the Asháninka
Watch Megan Vaughan - A colonial metabolism: food, nutrition and extraction in Malawi on YouTube.
A Colonial Metabolism: food, nutrition and extraction in Malawi
Watch Environmental entanglements and health: what era are we living in? on YouTube.
Environmental Entanglements and Health: What era are we living in?

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If you have any questions on our existing projects, potential partnerships or would like to know more about studying Anthropocene at UCL, get in touch.

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