Juno Salazar Parreñas
Biographic Data
| ID | 207130 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juno Salazar Parreñas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juno Salazar |
| FAMILY NAME | Parreñas |
| SIGNATURE | PARREÑAS J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1367-6491 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 186 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Contextualizing Museum Collections at the Smithsonian Institution: The Relevance of Collections-Based Research in the Twenty-First Century
To live and die in an age of extinction: A conversation with Juno Salazar Parreñas
Ethnography after anthropology: Become moles, not mining corporations
For many today, extraction is a damning feature of all ethnography. Yet anthropologically minded ethnographers should not think of themselves as multinational mining corporations. The self-estimation of any ethnographer, especially an anthropologically minded ethnographer, should be much lower and smaller, as low and small as tiny moles that make new connections by digging channels in the dark. Moles might not be the perfect analogy. They do, how…
Afterword
Power, Care and Species Difference in Orangutan Rehabilitation in Sarawak: A Roundtable
Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society - Volume 94, Part 1, No. 320, June 2021
Pronouns for an apocalyptic future: Asymmetrical Terms for a New Era
Pronouns, particularly gendered pronouns, convey how apocalyptic futures are understood for differently positioned subjects. The “we” is not always about embracing a commons but can also be about extending exclusions. Drawing from social linguistics and the concept of shifters, science and technology studies and the ideas of symmetry, asymmetry, as well as the author’s ethnographic research at two orangutan rehabilitation centers on Borneo in pre…
From Decolonial Indigenous Knowledges to Vernacular Ideas in Southeast Asia
Relations between humans and orangutans in present-day Malaysia show the historiographic and ethnographic problem of using the term "Indigenous knowledge." Iban and Malay relationships with nonhuman animals are intersubjective and informed by particular subject formations, and indigeneity explains only one kind of relation. To analyze their relations simply in terms of decolonial Indigenous knowledge would be a culturally imperialist act from the…
An Anthropology of primatology exceeds the Primate order: A feminist and queer critique
Cet article cherche à répondre à la question posée par Lys Alcayna-Stevens : qu'est-ce qui permet de distinguer l'anthropologie de la primatologie des autres analyses critiques de cette discipline ? Il soutient qu'une anthropologie de la primatologie ne saurait se limiter aux seuls primates non-humains. Typique de l'ethnographie, les analyses ethnographiques en anthropologie de la primatologie dépendent de la sensibilité ou des sensibilités de l'…
One Health, Many Inequalities: Theorizing the Exchange Relations of a Global Pandemic
Arrested: Orangutan sexuality and the rehabilitation of wildness through captivity in Malaysia
How is sexuality pivotal for paradoxically both proving and causing rehabilitation? This paper engages a captor’s interest in the sexual lives of captives, specifically at a wildlife centre for displaced, semi-wild orangutans on Malaysian Borneo. It suggests a bigger problem in captivity at large: rehabilitation might always be an impossible horizon
Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation
In Decolonizing Extinction Juno Salazar Parreñas ethnographically traces the ways in which colonialism, decolonization, and indigeneity shape relations that form more-than-human worlds at orangutan rehabilitation centers on Borneo. Parreñas tells the interweaving stories of wildlife workers and the centers' endangered animals while demonstrating the inseparability of risk and futurity from orangutan care. Drawing on anthropology, primatology, Sou…
The Materiality of Intimacy in Wildlife Rehabilitation: Rethinking Ethical Capitalism through Embodied Encounters with Animals in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asian wildlife rehabilitation centers, such as an orangutan rehabilitation center in Malaysia and an elephant sanctuary in Thailand, facilitate commodified forms of intimacy between endemic animals, their caretakers who also hail from the region, and transnational commercial volunteers. These forms of intimacy include cleaning animal feces as well as gaining physical proximity and even tactile contact. At first glance, commercial volunt…
Producing affect: Transnational volunteerism in a Malaysian orangutan rehabilitation center
In a postcolonial economy of volunteer tourism from the Global North to the Global South, mostly British women pay thousands of U.S. dollars to travel to Sarawak, on Malaysian Borneo, to work in a wildlife rehabilitation center. There, in a program operated as a public-private partnership, they provide hard labor to maintain and improve the facility and assist subcontracted indigenous Iban men in caring for displaced orangutans. Through the conce…
Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation
In Decolonizing Extinction Juno Salazar Parreñas ethnographically traces the ways in which colonialism, decolonization, and indigeneity shape relations that form more-than-human worlds at orangutan rehabilitation centers on Borneo. Parreñas tells the interweaving stories of wildlife workers and the centers' endangered animals while demonstrating the inseparability of risk and futurity from orangutan care. Drawing on anthropology, primatology, Sou…
Producing affect: Transnational volunteerism in a Malaysian orangutan rehabilitation center
In a postcolonial economy of volunteer tourism from the Global North to the Global South, mostly British women pay thousands of U.S. dollars to travel to Sarawak, on Malaysian Borneo, to work in a wildlife rehabilitation center. There, in a program operated as a public-private partnership, they provide hard labor to maintain and improve the facility and assist subcontracted indigenous Iban men in caring for displaced orangutans. Through the conce…
The Materiality of Intimacy in Wildlife Rehabilitation: Rethinking Ethical Capitalism through Embodied Encounters with Animals in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asian wildlife rehabilitation centers, such as an orangutan rehabilitation center in Malaysia and an elephant sanctuary in Thailand, facilitate commodified forms of intimacy between endemic animals, their caretakers who also hail from the region, and transnational commercial volunteers. These forms of intimacy include cleaning animal feces as well as gaining physical proximity and even tactile contact. At first glance, commercial volunt…
Ethnography after anthropology: Become moles, not mining corporations
For many today, extraction is a damning feature of all ethnography. Yet anthropologically minded ethnographers should not think of themselves as multinational mining corporations. The self-estimation of any ethnographer, especially an anthropologically minded ethnographer, should be much lower and smaller, as low and small as tiny moles that make new connections by digging channels in the dark. Moles might not be the perfect analogy. They do, how…
From Decolonial Indigenous Knowledges to Vernacular Ideas in Southeast Asia
Relations between humans and orangutans in present-day Malaysia show the historiographic and ethnographic problem of using the term "Indigenous knowledge." Iban and Malay relationships with nonhuman animals are intersubjective and informed by particular subject formations, and indigeneity explains only one kind of relation. To analyze their relations simply in terms of decolonial Indigenous knowledge would be a culturally imperialist act from the…
Pronouns for an apocalyptic future: Asymmetrical Terms for a New Era
Pronouns, particularly gendered pronouns, convey how apocalyptic futures are understood for differently positioned subjects. The “we” is not always about embracing a commons but can also be about extending exclusions. Drawing from social linguistics and the concept of shifters, science and technology studies and the ideas of symmetry, asymmetry, as well as the author’s ethnographic research at two orangutan rehabilitation centers on Borneo in pre…
An Anthropology of primatology exceeds the Primate order: A feminist and queer critique
Cet article cherche à répondre à la question posée par Lys Alcayna-Stevens : qu'est-ce qui permet de distinguer l'anthropologie de la primatologie des autres analyses critiques de cette discipline ? Il soutient qu'une anthropologie de la primatologie ne saurait se limiter aux seuls primates non-humains. Typique de l'ethnographie, les analyses ethnographiques en anthropologie de la primatologie dépendent de la sensibilité ou des sensibilités de l'…
Producing affect: Transnational volunteerism in a Malaysian orangutan rehabilitation center
In a postcolonial economy of volunteer tourism from the Global North to the Global South, mostly British women pay thousands of U.S. dollars to travel to Sarawak, on Malaysian Borneo, to work in a wildlife rehabilitation center. There, in a program operated as a public-private partnership, they provide hard labor to maintain and improve the facility and assist subcontracted indigenous Iban men in caring for displaced orangutans. Through the conce…
The Materiality of Intimacy in Wildlife Rehabilitation: Rethinking Ethical Capitalism through Embodied Encounters with Animals in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asian wildlife rehabilitation centers, such as an orangutan rehabilitation center in Malaysia and an elephant sanctuary in Thailand, facilitate commodified forms of intimacy between endemic animals, their caretakers who also hail from the region, and transnational commercial volunteers. These forms of intimacy include cleaning animal feces as well as gaining physical proximity and even tactile contact. At first glance, commercial volunt…
Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation
In Decolonizing Extinction Juno Salazar Parreñas ethnographically traces the ways in which colonialism, decolonization, and indigeneity shape relations that form more-than-human worlds at orangutan rehabilitation centers on Borneo. Parreñas tells the interweaving stories of wildlife workers and the centers' endangered animals while demonstrating the inseparability of risk and futurity from orangutan care. Drawing on anthropology, primatology, Sou…
Arrested: Orangutan sexuality and the rehabilitation of wildness through captivity in Malaysia
How is sexuality pivotal for paradoxically both proving and causing rehabilitation? This paper engages a captor’s interest in the sexual lives of captives, specifically at a wildlife centre for displaced, semi-wild orangutans on Malaysian Borneo. It suggests a bigger problem in captivity at large: rehabilitation might always be an impossible horizon
From Decolonial Indigenous Knowledges to Vernacular Ideas in Southeast Asia
Relations between humans and orangutans in present-day Malaysia show the historiographic and ethnographic problem of using the term "Indigenous knowledge." Iban and Malay relationships with nonhuman animals are intersubjective and informed by particular subject formations, and indigeneity explains only one kind of relation. To analyze their relations simply in terms of decolonial Indigenous knowledge would be a culturally imperialist act from the…
An Anthropology of primatology exceeds the Primate order: A feminist and queer critique
Cet article cherche à répondre à la question posée par Lys Alcayna-Stevens : qu'est-ce qui permet de distinguer l'anthropologie de la primatologie des autres analyses critiques de cette discipline ? Il soutient qu'une anthropologie de la primatologie ne saurait se limiter aux seuls primates non-humains. Typique de l'ethnographie, les analyses ethnographiques en anthropologie de la primatologie dépendent de la sensibilité ou des sensibilités de l'…
One Health, Many Inequalities: Theorizing the Exchange Relations of a Global Pandemic
Power, Care and Species Difference in Orangutan Rehabilitation in Sarawak: A Roundtable
Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society - Volume 94, Part 1, No. 320, June 2021
Pronouns for an apocalyptic future: Asymmetrical Terms for a New Era
Pronouns, particularly gendered pronouns, convey how apocalyptic futures are understood for differently positioned subjects. The “we” is not always about embracing a commons but can also be about extending exclusions. Drawing from social linguistics and the concept of shifters, science and technology studies and the ideas of symmetry, asymmetry, as well as the author’s ethnographic research at two orangutan rehabilitation centers on Borneo in pre…
Afterword
Ethnography after anthropology: Become moles, not mining corporations
For many today, extraction is a damning feature of all ethnography. Yet anthropologically minded ethnographers should not think of themselves as multinational mining corporations. The self-estimation of any ethnographer, especially an anthropologically minded ethnographer, should be much lower and smaller, as low and small as tiny moles that make new connections by digging channels in the dark. Moles might not be the perfect analogy. They do, how…
To live and die in an age of extinction: A conversation with Juno Salazar Parreñas
Contextualizing Museum Collections at the Smithsonian Institution: The Relevance of Collections-Based Research in the Twenty-First Century
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (8 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · History (7 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Ethnography (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · History (6 works)