Abstract: Based in nine years of anthropological research on climate change, in this triptych of creative prose and ethnographic poetry, I reflect on writing and living during a pandemic, unfolding against the background of mass protest and environmental change. Part I, a piece of prose poetry, traces a series of resonances from my own position within the pandemic…

This is a “preprint” manuscript of the acknowledgements section of my PhD dissertation. I present it here not to be self-indulgent, navel-gazing, but outwardly grateful to my relations in a medium more accessible than one hidden away in the dissertation, whenever that appears, officially finished and published by the McGill University Library.

In this episode of “Talking Culture,” the McGill Anthropology graduate student podcast, I take up Season Two’s theme of “Possibility” along with a focus of my research, climate change. It explores the idea of possibility in the face of a problem like the climate crisis, which can often seem impossible. Based loosely on Chapter 3 of my PhD dissertation.

The site is easy to access. Just a short walk and I’m there, immediately confronted with two large rectangular windows. The large window up high and on the right is mostly opaque, save one dominating feature…

On Earth Day’s 50th anniversary, anthropological research reveals how complex, global problems can be made tangible through experience, empathy—and play.