Claira Turvey
Sustainable development & social anthropology. Exploring multisolving, multispecies & more-than-human relations, decolonisation, cognitive justice and reparations 🌿
🌱 A lesson from nature everyday: https://naturalthinkinglab.substack.com
🕸️ Edinburgh
- Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. ‘The doctrina padres, compel widows and single women to spin and weave, accusing them of having lovers as an excuse for making them work without paying them.’
- ‘Where laws stop, insurance often takes the baton, and this is likely to become a big topic in the coming months. …an entire history of the deployment of AI (and other technologies before it) could be told through the lens of the insurance industry, and the constraints it put on adoption and use’
- Time to start a new thread, methinks!
- 100. Ways of Seeing: A New Museum Story for Planet Earth by Grace Ndiritu Over the last decades, I have been fascinated by and engaged with the idea that objects are alive and, therefore, should be able to have a life of their own. #TabClosed2026 #AnthroSky
- 101. Indigenous Climate Action We believe that Indigenous Peoples’ rights and knowledge systems are critical to developing solutions to the climate crisis and achieving climate justice. #TabClosed2026
- 102. Environmental + Climate Justice Syllabus Assembling readings, articles, case studies & biographies from key writers, scholars & activists working for environmental freedom. Generating a searchable and citable list of Black, Indigenous & Latinx individuals, orgs & movements #TabClosed2026
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View full thread107. Decolonizing Ethnography: A Reimagined Framework for Teaching Radical Ethnography In this spirit of decolonization, radical ethnography seeks to dismantle antiquated methodologies of anthropology that supported & sustained the colonial agenda #TabClosed2026 #AnthroSky
- What a snapshot
- This is like an ethnographic film 💖 Magic stuff. It’s on BBC iPlayer for another couple of weeks. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On #AnthroSky
- “among colleagues with identical seniority, individuals who plagiarized their dissertations advanced 9% more rapidly in the first five years of their careers”… and AI may amplify rather than merely reveal [dishonesty]’
- 📚 BookStack 2026 Keeping a tab on how much of my To Read pile I get through this year. First up… The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds by @thomvandooren.bsky.social A life-expanding read
