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SOPHIE CHAO RECEIVES PAUL BOURKE AWARD

30 October 2024

A news piece of the 2024 Paul Bourke Award, published by the University of Sydney.

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RESOURCES STRUGGLES IN WEST PAPUA

30 October 2025

A webinar on multispecies justice in West Papua, hosted by Melbourne University and La Trobe University.

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TEACHING ECOLOGICAL DISTRESS

13 February 2025

A teaching tool on ecological distress, co-authored with Kerry Ryan Chance and published in The Society for Cultural Anthropology's Fieldsights series.

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LAW AND THE INHUMAN

14 October 2024

Concluding reflections on law and the inhuman, published in Critical Legal Theory.

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SOPHIE CHAO RECEIVES PAUL BOURKE AWARD

30 October 2024

A news piece of the 2024 Paul Bourke Award, published by the University of Sydney.

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MOURNING WASTE

13 September 2024

An essay on mourning waste in the Anthropocene, published by Edge Effects.

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ECR BOOK PRIZE

20 September 2024

An interview on In the Shadow of the Palms, winner of the 2024 ECR Book Prize from the Asian Studies Association of Australia, published in Asian Currents.

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DREAMS

9 August 2024

An open-access entry on the anthropology of dreaming, published in the Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology (formerly Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology).

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ASAA ECR BOOK PRIZE

12 June 2024

Announcement of the 2024 Asian Studies Association of Australian Early Career Researcher Book Prize, awarded to In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua.

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SYDNEY ANTHROPOLOGIST AWARDED THREE PRESTIGIOUS BOOK PRIZES

14 June 2024

A University of Sydney News Piece on three book awards received by In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua.

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ALCANZA EL LENGUAJE PARA HACER JUSTICIAS?

11 June 2024

A conversation on the politics of languages and idioms in the environmental humanities, published by Revista Anfibia. With Alejandro Ponce de León.

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JUSTICIA METABOLICA

26 May 2024

A podcast on metabolic justice, hosted by Humanidades Ambientales. With Lisa Blackmore and Alejandro Ponce de León.

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REIMAGINING JUSTICE

16 May 2024

A podcast on multispecies justice and hesitant anthropology, published by OxPods and The Oxford Scientist. With Ushika Rudd.

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BEYOND THE ANTHROPOCENE

8 April 2024

An opinion piece on the Anthropocene, published by IAI News.

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MULTISPECIES MOURNING

8 April 2024

A long-form essay on multispecies mourning in West Papua, published in the Sydney Environment Institute magazine (April 2024).

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THE IAIN MCCALMAN LECTURE

11 March 2024

A podcast of the 2024 Iain McCalman Lecture, the flagship event of the Sydney Environment Institute.

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SYDNEY SPOTLIGHT

9 February 2024

An interview on anthropology, multispecies studies, and life at the University of Sydney, published by Sydney Spotlight.

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MULTISPECIES MOURNING

6 February 2024

An interview on multispecies mourning and the 2024 Iain McCalman Lecture, published by the Sydney Environment Institute.

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SCALE, SPACE, AND SUBJECTHOOD

1 February 2024

An introduction to the Antipode Intervention, “Plantation Methodologies: Questioning Space, Scale, and Subjecthood,” published by 4S Backchannels.

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PLANTATION METHODOLOGIES

4 January 2024

A collection of essays examining plantations through the interconnected lens of scale, space, and subjecthood, published by radical geography journal Antipode.

Co-edited by Alyssa Paredes, Andres Leon Araya, and Sophie Chao, with essays by Kregg Hetherington, Alice Rudge, Desiree Kumpf, Andres Caicedo, Diana Ojeda, María José Guillén-Araya, Nicole Labruto, Stuart Strange, Kimberley D. McKinson, Jolen Martinez, Alyssa Paredes, Andrés León Araya, Cristiana Bastos, and Deborah Heath.

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