Sophie Chao is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sydney. Her anthropological and interdisciplinary research investigates the intersections of Indigeneity, ecology, capitalism, health, and justice in the Pacific. For more information, please visit www.morethanhumanworlds.com.
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Plantation Anthropologies: Three Turning Points
This essay traces the evolution of anthropological thinking around plantations through the lens of three conceptual turning points: political economy, more-than... More
Vegetal Response-ability on a Plantation Frontier
Plant response-ability and vegetal care offer a rich analytic for reimagining agency and subjecthood beyond the realm of the human and against the fiction of an... More
Section One: Reflecting on Distress
Guided Reading by Sophie Chao Ogden, Laura A. 2021. Loss and Wonder at the World’s End. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Students in a course on “The Anthr... More
Living with Ashes
For many Australians, 2020 began as a year of fire. The bush fires that ripped through the country that year were unprecedented in scale and destruction. Dubbed... More
They Grow and Die Lonely and Sad
In Indonesian West Papua, vast swathes of rainforest are being razed to develop monocrop oil palm plantations. Alongside rampant ecological destruction, a new b... More