Embodied Inequalities of the Anthropocene

The two-year collaboration between UFRGS Brazil, CIESAS Mexico and UCL in the UK brings together environmental, indigenous, biosocial, multispecies, gender and theoretical expertise in Medical Anthropology, to extend interdisciplinary engagement concerning how the Anthropocene epoch impacts on human health. Our group aligns interest and expertise in diverse fields of inquiry relevant to the embodied inequalities of the Anthropocene including gender, justice and power, indigenous health, well-being and sustainability.

As Medical Anthropologists we are concerned with how human bodies are affected by and responding to the Anthropocene context. Yet the problematisation of this phenomena is unsettled and restricted by Western categorisations of planetary life, human experiences and the methods of achieving sustainable social and environmental futures. The very definition of this epoch as the ‘Anthropocene’, suggests a global human responsibility for what is effectively the fallout of Western industrial social orders. 

Organization: UCL (UK), Wellcome, ICS-ULisboa (Cristiana Bastos, Verónica Policarpo & Susana Matos Viegas)

More info at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/research/embodied-inequalities-anthropocene and https://wellcome.org/