Proposal of maximum 3000 words. Based on the research you conduct throughout the term (the topics were: Understanding Climate Change, Empire and Capitalism, Anthropocene, Plantationocene: Social and Ecological Metabolism, Consuming Life: Consumption Goods and the Prospects of Behaviour Change, Climate Change, Disaster, and Race in Film, Where is Climate Change? The Local and the Global Experience, Natural Capital, Carbon Sinks, and Conservation, Climate Change Science and Technological Fixes) you will write a research proposal. This could be a PhD or MRes research proposal, or interdisciplinary research you may propose as part of work responsibilities/possibilities in international, governmental, or non-governmental organisations, research institutes, or private sector corporate jobs. You must clearly indicate the purpose of your proposal in the abstract (200 words maximum). Whatever you choose for your research, it is essential that the problem is approached and explored anthropologically, drawing on anthropological research methods and literature. Your proposal should include the following: – Title – Abstract (200 words maximum) – Research Overview (what are you proposing to research and why) – Research Question (one big question and a maximum of four sub-questions – in anthropology we do not test hypothesis but research is rather done through exploration and ethnography, similar to what other fields call ‘grounded theory’) – Theoretical Framework (your theoretical approach and exploration of relevant literature – you must include at least two (2) sources from the module readings) “some of them will be listed and attached, please feel free to ask for more” – Methodology (writing just ethnography, ethnographic methods, or participant observation is not enough – you must elaborate how particular aspects of the research question will be researched through particular methods and why, and what exactly are you going to participate in and observe in order to understand what, and why is this a good way to do it) – Ethical Implications (a paragraph or two indicating any implications and how you plan to mitigate them) – Impact (why is this research important and what would it result in; don’t just say that it will generate important new knowledge, but explain how this knowledge can be used to create real impact in the world; what other forms of output is the research going to generate, how is this important, and for whom) – Timeline (what stages of the research will be conducted when) – Bibliography (this should only include sources you have cited in the research proposal – a common misconception is that you only cite literature in the Theoretical Framework; no, you should refer to relevant literature throughout to support your claims or exemplify how others have addressed similar problems, for example in the Ethical Implications or the Methodology) The Research Proposal will be assessed according to the following criteria: • Development and coherence of arguments • Use of supporting evidence • Demonstration of an advanced and critical understanding of relevant key debates, including reference to at least two readings from the module reading list • Degree of reflexivity and critical thinking in relation to arguments and evidence • Formal presentation: correct referencing and quoting; clarity; format (including all the sections/components listed above) List for some sources from the module readings: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Eriksen, . 2016. Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change. Pluto (Chapter 1) 6. Steffen, W., K. Richardson, J. Rockström, . Cornell, . 2015. Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet. Science 347: 736, 1259855 7. Susan Sontag. 1965. The Imagination of Disaster 8. Moore, Amelia 2015. Anthropocene anthropology: reconceptualizing contemporary global change. JRAI 22:27-46. 9. Zoe Todd. 2015. Indigenizing the Anthropocene.’ Art in The Anthropocene, Heather Davis and Etienne Turpin (eds), Open Humanities Press 2015. 10. Foster, John Bellamy. 1999. Marx’s Theory of the Metabolic Rift: Classical Foundations of Environmental Sociology. The American Journal of Sociology. 105(2): 366-405. 11. Carney, Judith A. 2021. ‘Subsistence in the Plantationocene: dooryard gardens, agrobiodiversity, and the subaltern economies of slavery’, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 48(5): 1075-1099 12. Orlove, B., et al. 2014. ‘Recognitions and responsibilities: on the origins and consequences of the uneven attention to climate change around the world’. Current Anthropology 55(3): 249-275. 13. Shepherd, Theodore G. & Adam H. Sobel. 2020. Localness in Climate Change. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 40 (1): 7–16. 14. Debt-for-Nature Finance Swap: 15. Fletcher et al. 2019. ‘Natural capital must be defended: green growth as neoliberal biopolitics’. Journal of Peasant Studies 46(5):1068-1095. 16. Sullivan, S., 2013. ‘Banking Nature? The Spectacular Financialisation of Environmental Conservation’. Antipode, 45(1): 198-217. 17. Haines, S. 2019. ‘Managing expectations: articulating expertise in climate services for agriculture in Belize.’ Climatic Change, 157:43–59 18. Knox, H. 2018. What Is Going on with the Weather? 19. Stensrud, A. B. 2019.‘“You cannot contradict the engineer”: Disencounters of modern technology, climate change, and power in the Peruvian Andes’, Critique of Anthropology, 39(4): 420–438. 20. Malm, Andreas. 2021. How to Blow up a Pipeline. London: Verso. 21. Lakey, George. 2019. How We Win A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning. Melville House. (partly available on Google Books here) 22. Caniglia, B., Brulle, . & Szasz, A. 2015. Civil Society, Social Movements, and Climate Change. Chapter 8 in: Dunlap, ., Brulle, . (Eds.), Climate Change and Society: Sociological Perspectives. New York: OUP, . 23. Castree, N. 2015. ‘Unfree Radicals: Geoscientists, the Anthropocene, and Left Politics.’ Antipode, 49(S1): 52-74. 24. Deluca, . 2021. ‘Extinction Rebellion, Image Events, Social Media and the Eclipse of the Earth’. Social Anthropology 0: 0 1–3. 25. Eriksen, . 2021. ‘Generation climate change.’ Social Anthropology 0: 0 1–3. 26. Fisher, . 2016. Life trajectories of youth committing to climate activism. Environmental Education Research 22(2): 229-247. 27. Krauß, W. 2021 ‘Meat is Stupid’: Covid?19 and the Co?Development of Climate Activism.’ Social Anthropology 0: 0 1–4. 28. Krøijer, S. 2015. ‘Revolution is the Way You Eat: Exemplification Among Left Radical Activists in Denmark and in Anthropology.’ Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 21(S1): 78-95. 29. McAdam, D. 2017. ‘Social Movement Theory and the Prospects for Climate Change Activism in the United States’. Annual Review of Political Science 20: 189-208. (Explains how social movements come about and why there hasn’t been much climate change activism in the US) 30. North, P. 2011. ‘The politics of climate activism in the UK: a social movement analysis’. Environment and Planning A 43: 1581-1598. 31. Rogers, N. 2018. ‘Beyond Reason: Activism and Law in a Time of Climate Change.’ Journal for the Study of Radicalism, 12(2): 157-181. 32. Rudiak-Gould, P. 2014. ‘Climate Change and Accusation: Global Warming and Local Blame in a Small Island State.’ Current Anthropology, 55(4): 365-386. 33. Smith, N. 2009. ‘The Revolutionary Imperative.’ Antipode, 40(S1): 50-65. 34. Suiseeya, . and L. Zanotti. 2019. ‘Making Influence Visible: Innovating Ethnography at the Paris Climate Summit.’ Global Environmental Politics, 19(2): 38-60. 35. Vaughn, . 2021. ‘The Aesthetics and Multiple Origin Stories of Climate Activism.’ Social Anthropology. Social Anthropology 0: 0 1–3.
