How anthropology will help scientists intertwine nature and society to better address the Earth system disequilibrium of Anthropocene?

Coordination

Dr. Frédéric Thomas (IRD-USTH),

Dr. Tran Dinh Phong (USTH),

Dr. Emmanuel Pannier (IRD),

Pr. Nguyen Van Suu (USSH),

Dr. Lam Minh Chau (USSH Hanoi),

Prof. Huynh Ngoc Thu (USSH Hô Chi Minh City),

Ms. Vy Cao (EPHE),

Dr. Andrew Hardy,

Dr. Olivier Tessier (EFEO)

2019-04-17 - Bridging global environmental sciences and anthropology of nature:

Anthropology of nature developed by Philippe Descola constitutes a very stimulating approach of the relationships between human and their environment that overcomes the so-called universal (modern) division between nature and culture. Philippe Descola will show how in lot of societies humans twine social relationships with plants, animals and environment and by doing so compose a common world between humans and non-humans. We will examine, with him, in what extend a such approach can help scientists to renew their representations of nature and society to better address the Earth system disequilibrium of Anthropocene that humankind has to face.

2019-04-18 - Schools, influences, and trends in environmental anthropology in Vietnam from cultural ecology to anthropology of nature :

The aim of this seminar will be to distinguish different schools, streams in anthropology to address environmental issues from cultural ecology to political ecology and “ontological shift” ; to present what is anthropology of nature to a public of Vietnamese anthropologists; to explain why anthropology has to break down the classical modern division between nature and culture to recompose a radical holistic anthropology regarding the relationships between humans and nonhumans through different schemes of identification (ontology).

2019-04-25 - Anthropology and community development in theory and practice from cultural ecology to anthropology of nature