Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title

Current Anthropology

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Publication Date

1999

Volume

40

Issue

3

First Page

296

Last Page

297

Abstract

Brosius raises a series of questions that emanate from recent encounters between critical anthropology and environmental discourses and movements. Drawing upon insights from feminist theory, we propose to expand and enrich these questions as they relate to intersections of identity and environmental movements, policy, and positionality. Brosius’s analysis of research on environmental social movements, discourse, and images repeatedly touches on the complex processes of identity and representation. Perhaps most striking is his implicit dichotomization of essential and strategic identities. Our comments first focus on the issue of environmental essentialisms, their deployment by various actors, and their potential unmasking by researchers. We then raise the issue of researcher positionality in terms of purpose, policy engagement, and relationship to the researched.

Comments

Originally published by the University of Chicago Press. Publisher's PDF available through Current Anthropology.
Note: Claudia Radel's segment is a part of a larger article, titled: "Analyses and Interventions."

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