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. 'Only no-one knew why they owed their debt or how long it would take to repay'
- Mine was eerily similar 😂 bsky.app/profile/clai...
- 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
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View full thread106. Rongomātau – ‘sensing the knowing’: An Indigenous Methodology Utilising Sensed Knowledge From the Researcher Rongomatau recognises the researcher as an absorbent being, with capabilities to feel into the energetic lives of others #TabClosed2026 #AnthroSky
- 107. 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
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View full threadOoh yes and… youtu.be/0_W-vJ3hXhA?...
- Almost forgot this one… open.spotify.com/track/3fDyWX...
- LOVE Jupiter. Especially when seeing it at different wavelengths….. it can be a fiery drama queen or a pastel dreamscape… 💖 www.gemini.edu/news/press-r...
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- You’re more than welcome! 💖 thank you 😊
- 104. Applying an Indigenous methodology to a North–South, cross-cultural collaboration: successes and remaining challenges The projects’ aim was to bring together Bribri & Jakun leaders (from Costa Rica & Malaysia) for constructive dialogues about sustainable development #TabClosed2026 #AnthroSky
- 105. Advancing Indigenous futures with Two-Eyed seeing: Strategies for restoration & repair through collaborative research Learning from one eye with the strengths of Indigenous knowledges & ways of knowing & from the other eye with strengths of Western knowledges & ways of knowing #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
- 103. Ethnography: A Prototype These ethnographic prototypes functioned as boundary objects and zones of infrastructural enablement that allowed us to argue with our collaborators about the city at the same time as we argued through the city. #TabClosed2026
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View full thread100. 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
- Congrats to me for reaching 100 Tabs Closed! However I am still somehow over the 400 tabs open mark. Hmm. Continuing the action over here.... bsky.app/profile/clai...
- 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
- 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
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- This is decimating all my good work lately… 🙃
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- I read that as LSD Church
- 98. What is planetary justice? We invited scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to share their perspectives on the scope, scale, and purpose of planetary justice and received a variety of responses... #TabClosed2026
- 99. Recycling Class: The Contradictions of Inclusion in Urban Sustainability An ethnographic and community-engaged study of the class, caste, and gender politics of environmental mobilizations around Bengaluru, India's discards. #TabClosed2026
- 96. Daiara Tukano: Existence as Resistance: an Indigenous perspective from Brazil Talk at @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy. Building alliances to shift the dominant paradigm & encourage creation of new strategies to protect mother nature, cultural diversity & human rights #TabClosed2026 #AnthroSky
- 97. Negotiating just transitions: power and interest dynamics in insurgent sustainability coalitions A focus on how insurgent coalitions of relatively marginalized social forces negotiate differences in interests and power #TabClosed2026
- 94. Against climate apartheid: Confronting the persistent legacies of expendability for climate justice How interlocking historical structures of oppression facilitate a response to climate change that is systematically promoting spatial, socio-economic & ecological segregation #TabClosed2026
- 95. Affective assemblages of kinship and single mothers’ labour migration from a ‘climate hotspot’ Thinking of assemblages of kinship as open-ended gatherings enables us to move away from fixed genealogical constructs of patrilineal and virilocal households... #TabClosed2026
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- 92. Some Thoughts about the Philosophical Underpinnings of Aboriginal Worldviews Western: What’s the meaning of life? Aboriginal: What is it that wants to know? #TabClosed2026
- 93. Language, Audience, and the Transformation of Disputes This article develops an analytic framework for comparing dispute processing within a single institution and across different cultures, by focusing on the transformation of disputes. #TabClosed2026
- 90. Legal Pluralism ...given a sufficiently broad definition of the term legal system, virtually every society is legally plural, whether or not it has a colonial past. Legal pluralism is a central theme in the reconceptualization of the law/society relation. #TabClosed2026
- 91. Making Law at The Doorway: The Clerk, the Court, and The Construction of Community How the practice of complaint hearings both reproduces and transforms systemic inequalities #TabClosed2026
- 88. The Specter of Eurocentrism in International Legal History ...the history of international law has been profoundly Eurocentric and that correcting this bias should be one of the main preoccupations of contemporary historical efforts #TabClosed2026
- 89. Do climate lawsuits lead to action? Researchers assess their impact Litigation can lead governments to strengthen their climate policies and curb companies’ greenwashing, say scientists. #TabClosed2026
- 86. What does it mean to dream of new anticolonial worlds from within the law school? A discussion about the last three chapters of @folukeifejola.bsky.social's Decolonisation and Legal knowledge: Reflections on power and possibility #TabClosed2026
- 87. Relegislating the Zong from the perspective of the sea: What does it mean to live in the devastation of time? by @folukeifejola.bsky.social ~ 'are the tools we currently have in legal knowledge sufficient to achieve justice in the present?' #TabClosed2026
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- You reminded me of this.... On Earthlings and Aliens: Space Mining and the Challenge of Post-Planetary Ecocriticism 'This is an essay on space mining, the prospect of the post-planetary expansion of the human habitat, and their importance for ecocritical thinking' muse.jhu.edu/article/865289
- Ooh I hadn’t, fabulous, thank you so much 🙏
- 84. Should Trees have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects Natural objects would have standing in their own right, through a guardian; damage to & through them would be ascertained & considered as an independent factor; & they would be the beneficiaries of legal awards #TabClosed2026
- 85. The Sea Casts Its Net of Justice Wide Using the frameworks of Black/African Science Fiction, Indigenous Knowledge, Earth Laws & anticolonial logics, this judgment imagines the sea & its inhabitants addressing a petition against humanity for what it has thrown into the waters #TabClosed2026
- 82. Why I’m joining more than 100 lawyers in refusing to prosecute climate protesters The cab rank rule is bound up, inseparably, with the idea that the law is right and its ends are worth upholding. But the law is not always right. #TabClosed2026
- 83. Should Rivers Be Afforded Personhood? Around the world, a growing movement seeks to protect rivers by declaring them living beings entitled to fundamental rights #TabClosed2026
- 80. Decolonial futures for ancestral remains in Scotland In Edinburgh University’s Anatomical Museum, there are nearly 1700 ancestral remains... curators and museum researchers discuss what it means for academic institutions to be accountable to these colonial legacies #TabClosed2026 #AnthroSky
- 81. ‘All other avenues have been exhausted’: Is legal action the only way to save the planet? Monica Feria-Tinta is one of a growing number of lawyers using the courts to make governments around the world take action #TabClosed2026
- 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
- 78. Plurality Journal Student-led journal at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social publishing pieces which question how the intersectional experiences of gender can impact our knowledge and experience of the world #TabClosed2026
- 79. Partnership in Practice: Student Advisory Boards Can Be More Than a Feedback Mechanism – A dialogic-reflective blog The SAB... was a living, breathing collaboration between students and staff, a shared space where learning itself was the focus #TabClosed2026
