E Vaughn
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 44273 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | E Vaughn |
| NOMBRES | E |
| APELLIDO | Vaughn |
| FIRMA | VAUGHN E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7127-0575 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Erosão por design
Este ensaio explora a intersecção entre demandas sociomateriais e éticas que engenheiros enfrentam ao adaptar defesas costeiras às mudanças climáticas na Guiana. O enfoque está nas tensões na adaptação climática que possibilitam a teorização da inovação como um tema central das contramodernidades no Antropoceno. Com base em trabalho de campo etnográfico, histórias orais e pesquisa arquivística, mostro que a tomada de decisão dos engenheiros sobre…
Global Guyana
The Making of Caribbean Approaches to Climate Adaptation
This article considers the social institutions, expertise, and technologies shaping commitments to climate adaptation across the Caribbean. The historical experience of modernity in the region can provide insight into the challenges and opportunities of current global climate negotiations. As greenhouse gas emissions steadily increase, Caribbean scientists and political leaders have taken urgent steps to develop state-sponsored partnerships for p…
Unavoidable Slips
Soft Lines
Sarah Vaughn’s photo essay captures Guyanese experiments with soft groynes, a type of coastal defense. This engagement with eroding shorelines shows how people are reinventing and experimenting with ecologies despite climatic havoc
Horizon Work
The Morality of Investment
This article details how the influence of financial investment on insurance has produced a morality discourse that provides new insights on a social theory of stigma. Specifically, it examines the Insurance Development Forum (IDF) and the role morality plays in its commitments to climate governance. Initially conceived by political leaders advising on disaster risk reduction at a 2013 UN General Assembly meeting, the IDF recognizes financial inst…
Ecotourism's ethics
In this article, I shed light on the ethical orientations of people who labour and invest in ecotourism, and the conditions through which ecotourism becomes recognizable as a neoliberal practice. I reveal that what distinguishes ecotourism is not merely its arrangements for the commodification of nature and related scientific enterprises. Instead, ecotourism depends in part on how people live with environmental degradation and the flexible ways i…
Erosion by Design
This essay explores the intersecting socio-material and ethical demands that engineers confront in adapting sea defenses to climate change in Guyana. It focuses on the tensions in climate adaptation that create the possibilities for theorizing innovation as a key theme of counter-modernities in the Anthropocene. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, oral histories, and archival research, I show that engineers' decision-making regarding whether or no…
The aesthetics and multiple origin stories of climate activism
and quarantines provided a well of antidotes and images of 'nature coming back and recolonising human environs', they also revealed the systematic ways in which climate activism is linked to health, food and housing activism. How and if the image of the mass crowd will continue to stand-in as the hallmark image of climate activism remains to be seen. The political potential of climate activism may therefore be in its capacity to tell stories that…
Gridlock
This article examines how Guyana’s storm early warning system shapes political imaginaries of climate adaptation. Specifically, it focuses on the reactions people have to the forms of gridlock that can make intense flooding, and climate change more generally, feel like an insurmountable problem. As I detail throughout this article, gridlock is an object of intervention in the development, maintenance, and operations of the storm early warning sys…
Witnessing environments
This article offers a conceptual and historical introduction to the significance of witnessing in relationship to environmental questions for the Hau special section “Witnessing Environments.” The articles in this special section take as their focus the often fragmented ways in which witnessing gains traction—as both practice and ethos—across environmental interventions. They also chart the ways that the pairing of “witnessing” and “environment” …
Intersectional Ecologies
Drawing on the work of Black feminist scholars, this review suggests "intersectional ecologies" as a method for critically engaging anthropology's relationship with the environment across subfields, intellectual traditions, and authorial politics. Intersectional ecologies helps us trace how a broad coalition of scholars represents and accounts for the environment within shifting planetary arrangements of bodies, sites, practices, and technologies…
Caribbean Technological Thought and Climate Adaptation
This essay offers a critical perspective on the role technology plays in the Caribbean formation of climate adaptation. It locates this critical perspective in "the embodiment of technology," a concept in the writings of the late political economist Norman Girvan that helped him describe how Caribbean states acquire technology and related infrastructures despite at times not having resources to maintain them. The embodiment of technology is still…
Saamaka Dreaming. Richard Price and Sally Price. Durham, NC
Imagining the Ordinary in Participatory Climate Adaptation
This article examines the ways Red Cross training in vulnerability capacity assessment (VCA) structures people’s understandings of the ordinary. This examination is situated within the context of Georgetown, Guyana, after disastrous flooding in 2005 led the Red Cross to deploy VCAs as a method for participatory climate adaptation. The article focuses on the circulation of narratives about the ordinary, which are used by VCA trainees to cultivate …
Disappearing Mangroves
This article details the epistemic politics that shape the climate adaptation of sea defense in Guyana. Rethinking the material arrangements of expertise in the Anthropocene, I track the work of a group of technoscientific experts participating in the Guyana Mangrove Restoration Project (GMRP). In an attempt to redesign sea defense around mangrove ecosystems, GMRP participants recognize that climate adaptation is not solely dependent on their wel…
Entrepreneurial Selves
Carla Freeman's ethnography of the entrepreneurial middle class in Barbados adds to a rapidly growing body of literature examining the affective dimensions of neoliberalism. Her work can be distinguished from most, however, by her attention to the quotidian practices of self-care that middle-class Barbadians invest in to cultivate their “entrepreneurial selves” (p. 4). Whereas most ethnographers argue that neoliberal entrepreneurship depends on t…
Reconstructing the citizen
This article examines the interlocking of nature and race within the overarching framework of the turn toward an idiom of 'preparedness' in disaster expertise in Guyana. Tracking the question of racial insecurity following disastrous floods in 2005, the article discusses disaster preparedness interventions as working against the country's process toward postsocialist racial democratization. In this respect, disaster preparedness has had contradic…
Creolization
Disappearing Mangroves
This article details the epistemic politics that shape the climate adaptation of sea defense in Guyana. Rethinking the material arrangements of expertise in the Anthropocene, I track the work of a group of technoscientific experts participating in the Guyana Mangrove Restoration Project (GMRP). In an attempt to redesign sea defense around mangrove ecosystems, GMRP participants recognize that climate adaptation is not solely dependent on their wel…
Intersectional Ecologies
Drawing on the work of Black feminist scholars, this review suggests "intersectional ecologies" as a method for critically engaging anthropology's relationship with the environment across subfields, intellectual traditions, and authorial politics. Intersectional ecologies helps us trace how a broad coalition of scholars represents and accounts for the environment within shifting planetary arrangements of bodies, sites, practices, and technologies…
Reconstructing the citizen
This article examines the interlocking of nature and race within the overarching framework of the turn toward an idiom of 'preparedness' in disaster expertise in Guyana. Tracking the question of racial insecurity following disastrous floods in 2005, the article discusses disaster preparedness interventions as working against the country's process toward postsocialist racial democratization. In this respect, disaster preparedness has had contradic…
Caribbean Technological Thought and Climate Adaptation
This essay offers a critical perspective on the role technology plays in the Caribbean formation of climate adaptation. It locates this critical perspective in "the embodiment of technology," a concept in the writings of the late political economist Norman Girvan that helped him describe how Caribbean states acquire technology and related infrastructures despite at times not having resources to maintain them. The embodiment of technology is still…
Ecotourism's ethics
In this article, I shed light on the ethical orientations of people who labour and invest in ecotourism, and the conditions through which ecotourism becomes recognizable as a neoliberal practice. I reveal that what distinguishes ecotourism is not merely its arrangements for the commodification of nature and related scientific enterprises. Instead, ecotourism depends in part on how people live with environmental degradation and the flexible ways i…
Erosion by Design
This essay explores the intersecting socio-material and ethical demands that engineers confront in adapting sea defenses to climate change in Guyana. It focuses on the tensions in climate adaptation that create the possibilities for theorizing innovation as a key theme of counter-modernities in the Anthropocene. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, oral histories, and archival research, I show that engineers' decision-making regarding whether or no…
Creolization
Reconstructing the citizen
This article examines the interlocking of nature and race within the overarching framework of the turn toward an idiom of 'preparedness' in disaster expertise in Guyana. Tracking the question of racial insecurity following disastrous floods in 2005, the article discusses disaster preparedness interventions as working against the country's process toward postsocialist racial democratization. In this respect, disaster preparedness has had contradic…
Entrepreneurial Selves
Carla Freeman's ethnography of the entrepreneurial middle class in Barbados adds to a rapidly growing body of literature examining the affective dimensions of neoliberalism. Her work can be distinguished from most, however, by her attention to the quotidian practices of self-care that middle-class Barbadians invest in to cultivate their “entrepreneurial selves” (p. 4). Whereas most ethnographers argue that neoliberal entrepreneurship depends on t…
Imagining the Ordinary in Participatory Climate Adaptation
This article examines the ways Red Cross training in vulnerability capacity assessment (VCA) structures people’s understandings of the ordinary. This examination is situated within the context of Georgetown, Guyana, after disastrous flooding in 2005 led the Red Cross to deploy VCAs as a method for participatory climate adaptation. The article focuses on the circulation of narratives about the ordinary, which are used by VCA trainees to cultivate …
Disappearing Mangroves
This article details the epistemic politics that shape the climate adaptation of sea defense in Guyana. Rethinking the material arrangements of expertise in the Anthropocene, I track the work of a group of technoscientific experts participating in the Guyana Mangrove Restoration Project (GMRP). In an attempt to redesign sea defense around mangrove ecosystems, GMRP participants recognize that climate adaptation is not solely dependent on their wel…
Saamaka Dreaming. Richard Price and Sally Price. Durham, NC
Caribbean Technological Thought and Climate Adaptation
This essay offers a critical perspective on the role technology plays in the Caribbean formation of climate adaptation. It locates this critical perspective in "the embodiment of technology," a concept in the writings of the late political economist Norman Girvan that helped him describe how Caribbean states acquire technology and related infrastructures despite at times not having resources to maintain them. The embodiment of technology is still…
The aesthetics and multiple origin stories of climate activism
and quarantines provided a well of antidotes and images of 'nature coming back and recolonising human environs', they also revealed the systematic ways in which climate activism is linked to health, food and housing activism. How and if the image of the mass crowd will continue to stand-in as the hallmark image of climate activism remains to be seen. The political potential of climate activism may therefore be in its capacity to tell stories that…
Gridlock
This article examines how Guyana’s storm early warning system shapes political imaginaries of climate adaptation. Specifically, it focuses on the reactions people have to the forms of gridlock that can make intense flooding, and climate change more generally, feel like an insurmountable problem. As I detail throughout this article, gridlock is an object of intervention in the development, maintenance, and operations of the storm early warning sys…
Witnessing environments
This article offers a conceptual and historical introduction to the significance of witnessing in relationship to environmental questions for the Hau special section “Witnessing Environments.” The articles in this special section take as their focus the often fragmented ways in which witnessing gains traction—as both practice and ethos—across environmental interventions. They also chart the ways that the pairing of “witnessing” and “environment” …
Intersectional Ecologies
Drawing on the work of Black feminist scholars, this review suggests "intersectional ecologies" as a method for critically engaging anthropology's relationship with the environment across subfields, intellectual traditions, and authorial politics. Intersectional ecologies helps us trace how a broad coalition of scholars represents and accounts for the environment within shifting planetary arrangements of bodies, sites, practices, and technologies…
Ecotourism's ethics
In this article, I shed light on the ethical orientations of people who labour and invest in ecotourism, and the conditions through which ecotourism becomes recognizable as a neoliberal practice. I reveal that what distinguishes ecotourism is not merely its arrangements for the commodification of nature and related scientific enterprises. Instead, ecotourism depends in part on how people live with environmental degradation and the flexible ways i…
Erosion by Design
This essay explores the intersecting socio-material and ethical demands that engineers confront in adapting sea defenses to climate change in Guyana. It focuses on the tensions in climate adaptation that create the possibilities for theorizing innovation as a key theme of counter-modernities in the Anthropocene. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, oral histories, and archival research, I show that engineers' decision-making regarding whether or no…
Soft Lines
Sarah Vaughn’s photo essay captures Guyanese experiments with soft groynes, a type of coastal defense. This engagement with eroding shorelines shows how people are reinventing and experimenting with ecologies despite climatic havoc
Horizon Work
The Morality of Investment
This article details how the influence of financial investment on insurance has produced a morality discourse that provides new insights on a social theory of stigma. Specifically, it examines the Insurance Development Forum (IDF) and the role morality plays in its commitments to climate governance. Initially conceived by political leaders advising on disaster risk reduction at a 2013 UN General Assembly meeting, the IDF recognizes financial inst…
The Making of Caribbean Approaches to Climate Adaptation
This article considers the social institutions, expertise, and technologies shaping commitments to climate adaptation across the Caribbean. The historical experience of modernity in the region can provide insight into the challenges and opportunities of current global climate negotiations. As greenhouse gas emissions steadily increase, Caribbean scientists and political leaders have taken urgent steps to develop state-sponsored partnerships for p…
Unavoidable Slips
Global Guyana
Erosão por design
Este ensaio explora a intersecção entre demandas sociomateriais e éticas que engenheiros enfrentam ao adaptar defesas costeiras às mudanças climáticas na Guiana. O enfoque está nas tensões na adaptação climática que possibilitam a teorização da inovação como um tema central das contramodernidades no Antropoceno. Com base em trabalho de campo etnográfico, histórias orais e pesquisa arquivística, mostro que a tomada de decisão dos engenheiros sobre…
Sociology (14 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Politics (10 obras) · Environmental ethics (7 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Climate change (6 obras) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (6 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (6 obras)