Apocalyptic discourses continue to be central to environmental movements, media
representations and even establishment accounts of environmental politics. At the same …

During the first wave of COVID-19 and the ensuing “anthropause” enforced by lockdown
policies, Tibetan medicine (Sowa Rigpa) rapidly emerged as a key interface through which …

Shunning and ostracism have severe impacts on individuals' psychological and social well-
being. Members of Jehovah's Witnesses are subject to shunning when they do not comply …

As climate change and biodiversity loss dismantle the world's ecosystems, we are becoming
a planet of weeds. The spread of invasive plant species poses acute challenges to human …

Confronted with concerns about rising biodiversity loss and pollution, conservation on the
Galápagos has recently moved away from the goal of preserving pristine ecosystems to …

In 1959, the Charles Darwin Station and the Galápagos National Park were established,
formally inaugurating conservation on the archipelago. In the same year, a utopian colony …

The study investigated the construction of Island Identity through translation in American
New Religious Movements' texts (NRMs). The research used the descriptive qualitative …

This chapter will look at radical climate change as an imminent and likely apocalyptic event
that can be interpreted through either secular or religious lenses. I begin with some …

In recent decades, the field of ecotheology has emerged in dialogue with the context of the
interconnected environmental and climate crises, particularly relating to the critique of …

Galapagos farmers are generally invisible in global discourses and remain understudied
from an anthropological perspective. Drawing on a year of ethnographic fieldwork during the …