Ramah McKay

Ramah McKay is an anthropologist whose work focuses on the relationship between knowledge-making, practices of care work, and forms of political imagination. She is currently working on aging in the context of climate change and on changing social, medical, humanitarian, and scientific understandings of livability. She is an associate professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Editors’ Introduction: Dissonant Ecotones, Fractured Strata

Theorizing the Contemporary

Editors’ Introduction: Dissonant Ecotones, Fractured Strata

The essays in this Fieldsights dossier approach the contemporary climate crisis and the conceptions of humanity it evokes through focused histories of environme... More

Dissonant Ecotones, Fractured Strata: Histories of Environmental Anthropology

Theorizing the Contemporary

Dissonant Ecotones, Fractured Strata: Histories of Environmental Anthropology

These essays confront the climate crisis, and the conceptions of humanity it evokes, through the histories of environmental anthropology itself. Over time, conc... More