Tomas Cole
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589380 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tomas Cole |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Cole |
| SIGNATURE | COLE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Can Mosquitoes be Kin? Conservation, Conviviality, and Enmity Among “Pests” From Myanmar to Singapore
In this article, I take the theme of this special issue on “The Enemy of Kinship and Kinship with the Enemies” as a provocation to challenge previous work, including my own, on convivial conservation and interspecies kin-making across Southeast Asia. How do species spoken of as “pests” and “enemies” fit into models of interspecies relatedness? What happens when we focus on our particularly vexed interspecies relationship to disease-bearing bugs? …
Anthropologists Are Talking About Ecography
Dealing with Biodiversity Dilemmas in Ordinary Places
The battle against invasive alien species (IAS) rages on, and is being driven by recently articulated global biodiversity agendas. While the current United Nations Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) seeks to ensure pristine, protected areas comprise 30 percent of the world's total surface area by 2030, there remains much to be done for the remaining 70 percent, areas dominated by human habitat and industrial activities. Many non-native species h…
Power-Hurt
In this paper I show how, for many Karen living as refugees in 'temporary-shelter-areas' in Thailand, acts of care and kindness often slipped into something painful and controlling. Drawing on fieldwork among Karen refugees disabled by landmines I show how asking for and receiving help was almost always accompanied by the visceral sensation of ana, literally, 'power hurt'. On the one hand, ana was the force driving the circulation of care and kin…
Power-Hurt
In this paper I show how, for many Karen living as refugees in 'temporary-shelter-areas' in Thailand, acts of care and kindness often slipped into something painful and controlling. Drawing on fieldwork among Karen refugees disabled by landmines I show how asking for and receiving help was almost always accompanied by the visceral sensation of ana, literally, 'power hurt'. On the one hand, ana was the force driving the circulation of care and kin…
Anthropologists Are Talking About Ecography
Power-Hurt
In this paper I show how, for many Karen living as refugees in 'temporary-shelter-areas' in Thailand, acts of care and kindness often slipped into something painful and controlling. Drawing on fieldwork among Karen refugees disabled by landmines I show how asking for and receiving help was almost always accompanied by the visceral sensation of ana, literally, 'power hurt'. On the one hand, ana was the force driving the circulation of care and kin…
Dealing with Biodiversity Dilemmas in Ordinary Places
The battle against invasive alien species (IAS) rages on, and is being driven by recently articulated global biodiversity agendas. While the current United Nations Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) seeks to ensure pristine, protected areas comprise 30 percent of the world's total surface area by 2030, there remains much to be done for the remaining 70 percent, areas dominated by human habitat and industrial activities. Many non-native species h…
Can Mosquitoes be Kin? Conservation, Conviviality, and Enmity Among “Pests” From Myanmar to Singapore
In this article, I take the theme of this special issue on “The Enemy of Kinship and Kinship with the Enemies” as a provocation to challenge previous work, including my own, on convivial conservation and interspecies kin-making across Southeast Asia. How do species spoken of as “pests” and “enemies” fit into models of interspecies relatedness? What happens when we focus on our particularly vexed interspecies relationship to disease-bearing bugs? …
Anthropologists Are Talking About Ecography
Geography (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Agriculture (1 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (1 works) · Agroforestry (1 works)