Abstract: Our research seeks to investigate how migrants perceive and manage their health in the post-pandemic era. To address this, we propose a dual-faceted collaboration: We will co-author a comparative paper examining cases from Denmark and China, and we will organize a cross-disciplinary writing workshop inviting scholars from diverse backgrounds to discuss interdisciplinary approaches to studying migration and health. Together with the workshop attendees, we will formulate a Special Issue (SI), featuring the co-authored paper by the research team and additional papers from the workshop. This project aims to: Facilitate a deeper exploration of the subject and foster a more interconnected academic community, encouraging innovative solutions.
Project deliverables include: 1) A SI on a cross-disciplinary approach to health and migration 2) A comprehensive and impactful approach to the research problem 3) Identification of potential future collaborators and the development of a sustainable interdisciplinary network 4) A media piece to raise awareness of the interdisciplinary approach.
Abstract: House crows, also known as Kunguru wa Zanzibar, are causing significant disruptions in Tanzania's coastal cities. They dominate the sky with their black wings and noise, causing disturbances in Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar. Despite decades of attempts to control them, projects have been unsuccessful. The Temeke district is now implementing a new project to trap and eliminate house crows. This baseline study aims at understanding the relationship between crows and traps and the materiality of traps as technological devices.
Abstract: This interdisciplinary network explores how anthropological engagement with landscape ecology enables a new way to track the Anthropocene’s growth and situated spread. It aims to develop an approach for diagramming, narrating, and mapping what we call infrastructural cascades: causal events sparked by capitalist developments that propagate new infrastructures and ecosystem-degrading effects. Although infrastructural cascade analysis can be used to interpret Anthropocene dynamics at many scales, here we illustrate how they can be mobilized to interpret capitalist transformations of landscapes. Rooted in three case studies in Canada, Botswana, and Spain, we investigate how modernist infrastructures have induced cascading changes in landscapes, warping the lifeworlds of migratory animals: caribou, wildebeest, and vultures, respectively.
