H Fair
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 57613 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | H Fair |
| NOMBRES | H |
| APELLIDO | Fair |
| FIRMA | FAIR H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1758-778X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Joy of Pests
Professional pest management (PPM)—the deliberate exclusion and removal of unwanted non‐human life—is a form of academically overlooked and socially undervalued ‘dirty work’. PPM technicians carry the physical and moral taint of unclean environments and animal execution. Yet, given its low public status and in a time of mass workplace alienation, why do so many pest controllers seem to love their jobs so much? Using interviews and participant obs…
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Data availability: The data that has been used is confidential
Getting dusty with mice
This intervention models and evaluates an innovative creative method for more-than-human geography: the reappropriation of non-toxic tracking dust from professional pest management as a means of understanding and revealing animal worlds. Combined with the use of black light, the application of the dust in sites of suspected rodent activity makes visible the otherwise hidden feral mouse movements in the researcher's own home. Consequently, it resp…
Labor, violence and the unfamiliar
Bringing insights from feminist geographies of the home to the animals’ geographies literature, this review posits the more-than-human home as a site of unevenly distributed violence and labor, for both humans and nonhumans alike. It expounds a holistic ecology of the more-than-human home that transcends a focus on companion animals, thereby raising questions of interspecies co-existence, autonomy, and control. Within this, it explores the work t…
Dodo dilemmas
In a time of deepening social and ecological crises, the question of research ethics is more pertinent than ever. Our intervention grapples with the specific personal, ethical, and methodological challenges that arise at the interface of conservation and social science. We expose these challenges through the figure of Chris, a fictional anonymised composite of our fraught diverse fieldwork experiences in Australia, Burma, Indonesian Borneo, Namib…
Playing with the Anthropocene
The figure of the island as a metonym for the planet is central to many allegories of the Anthropocene. These allegories build upon pre-existing discourses of islands as remote, vulnerable, and timeless, and often portray contemporary island nations as helpless, doomed, and disposable. This article focuses on one allegorical terrain that has received limited discursive and cultural analysis: analogue board games. Board game representations of isl…
Feeding extinction
Among UK-based orangutan conservation supporters, palm oil consumption boycotts are widespread, due to the ecological impacts of oil palm cultivation on orangutan habitat. Yet these boycotts are largely at odds with the stances of orangutan charities. Drawing on interviews with orangutan supporters, this article explores why some Global North consumers are so consumed by palm oil. Palm oil is viewed by orangutan supporters as insidious, invasive …
Only the orangutans get a life jacket
In an era of mass extinction, who gets a life jacket, who is left to drown or swim-and on what basis? This article addresses these questions by analyzing how tropes and practices of responsibility are variously enacted, reworked, contested, and refused across the global nexus of orangutan conservation. Drawing on multisited, collaborative ethnography, we trace the mutually constitutive relation between multiple orangutan figures and commons imagi…
Conservation and the social sciences
Interactions between conservation and the social sciences are frequently characterized by either critique (of conservation by social scientists) or co-optation (of social scientific methods and insights by conservationists). This article seeks to push beyond these two dominant positions by exploring how conservationists and social scientists can engage in mutually transformative dialogue. Jointly authored by conservation scientists and social sci…
Turning Away from Wicked Ways
Based on the cross-referencing of ethnographic materials collected in Fiji and Vanuatu, this article explores the diverse ways faith and climate change are connected together and how these connections are sustained and transformed over time. It does so through the prism of three ‘practices of assemblage’ identified by Tania Murray Li, namely forging alignments, authorising knowledge, and reassembling. It emphasises the partnership and combined ef…
Anthropocene
The Anthropocene' is a term that is increasingly used to define a new planetary epoch: one in which humans have become the dominant force shaping Earth's bio-geophysical composition and processes. Although it originated in the Earth Sciences, it has since been widely adopted across academia and the public sphere as a catch-all description for the overwhelming impact of human activity on the planet. This entry examines how anthropologists have eng…
Three stories of Noah
This paper makes a case for spiritualising climate change, outlining the importance of bringing diverse religious understandings into climate change responses, particularly in the Pacific Island region. It situates this as part of a wider geographical project of rendering climate change locally meaningful, and story‐telling multiple climate change narratives, including Christian ones. It identifies one of the major obstacles to this spiritualisat…
Curating the Future
A review of Curating the Future. Museums, Communities and Climate Change, edited by Jennifer Newell, Libby Robin, Kirsten Wehner, published by Routledge in 2016
Conservation and the social sciences
Interactions between conservation and the social sciences are frequently characterized by either critique (of conservation by social scientists) or co-optation (of social scientific methods and insights by conservationists). This article seeks to push beyond these two dominant positions by exploring how conservationists and social scientists can engage in mutually transformative dialogue. Jointly authored by conservation scientists and social sci…
Only the orangutans get a life jacket
In an era of mass extinction, who gets a life jacket, who is left to drown or swim-and on what basis? This article addresses these questions by analyzing how tropes and practices of responsibility are variously enacted, reworked, contested, and refused across the global nexus of orangutan conservation. Drawing on multisited, collaborative ethnography, we trace the mutually constitutive relation between multiple orangutan figures and commons imagi…
Anthropocene
The Anthropocene' is a term that is increasingly used to define a new planetary epoch: one in which humans have become the dominant force shaping Earth's bio-geophysical composition and processes. Although it originated in the Earth Sciences, it has since been widely adopted across academia and the public sphere as a catch-all description for the overwhelming impact of human activity on the planet. This entry examines how anthropologists have eng…
Three stories of Noah
This paper makes a case for spiritualising climate change, outlining the importance of bringing diverse religious understandings into climate change responses, particularly in the Pacific Island region. It situates this as part of a wider geographical project of rendering climate change locally meaningful, and story‐telling multiple climate change narratives, including Christian ones. It identifies one of the major obstacles to this spiritualisat…
Feeding extinction
Among UK-based orangutan conservation supporters, palm oil consumption boycotts are widespread, due to the ecological impacts of oil palm cultivation on orangutan habitat. Yet these boycotts are largely at odds with the stances of orangutan charities. Drawing on interviews with orangutan supporters, this article explores why some Global North consumers are so consumed by palm oil. Palm oil is viewed by orangutan supporters as insidious, invasive …
Turning Away from Wicked Ways
Based on the cross-referencing of ethnographic materials collected in Fiji and Vanuatu, this article explores the diverse ways faith and climate change are connected together and how these connections are sustained and transformed over time. It does so through the prism of three ‘practices of assemblage’ identified by Tania Murray Li, namely forging alignments, authorising knowledge, and reassembling. It emphasises the partnership and combined ef…
Labor, violence and the unfamiliar
Bringing insights from feminist geographies of the home to the animals’ geographies literature, this review posits the more-than-human home as a site of unevenly distributed violence and labor, for both humans and nonhumans alike. It expounds a holistic ecology of the more-than-human home that transcends a focus on companion animals, thereby raising questions of interspecies co-existence, autonomy, and control. Within this, it explores the work t…
Dodo dilemmas
In a time of deepening social and ecological crises, the question of research ethics is more pertinent than ever. Our intervention grapples with the specific personal, ethical, and methodological challenges that arise at the interface of conservation and social science. We expose these challenges through the figure of Chris, a fictional anonymised composite of our fraught diverse fieldwork experiences in Australia, Burma, Indonesian Borneo, Namib…
Playing with the Anthropocene
The figure of the island as a metonym for the planet is central to many allegories of the Anthropocene. These allegories build upon pre-existing discourses of islands as remote, vulnerable, and timeless, and often portray contemporary island nations as helpless, doomed, and disposable. This article focuses on one allegorical terrain that has received limited discursive and cultural analysis: analogue board games. Board game representations of isl…
Three stories of Noah
This paper makes a case for spiritualising climate change, outlining the importance of bringing diverse religious understandings into climate change responses, particularly in the Pacific Island region. It situates this as part of a wider geographical project of rendering climate change locally meaningful, and story‐telling multiple climate change narratives, including Christian ones. It identifies one of the major obstacles to this spiritualisat…
Curating the Future
A review of Curating the Future. Museums, Communities and Climate Change, edited by Jennifer Newell, Libby Robin, Kirsten Wehner, published by Routledge in 2016
Anthropocene
The Anthropocene' is a term that is increasingly used to define a new planetary epoch: one in which humans have become the dominant force shaping Earth's bio-geophysical composition and processes. Although it originated in the Earth Sciences, it has since been widely adopted across academia and the public sphere as a catch-all description for the overwhelming impact of human activity on the planet. This entry examines how anthropologists have eng…
Conservation and the social sciences
Interactions between conservation and the social sciences are frequently characterized by either critique (of conservation by social scientists) or co-optation (of social scientific methods and insights by conservationists). This article seeks to push beyond these two dominant positions by exploring how conservationists and social scientists can engage in mutually transformative dialogue. Jointly authored by conservation scientists and social sci…
Turning Away from Wicked Ways
Based on the cross-referencing of ethnographic materials collected in Fiji and Vanuatu, this article explores the diverse ways faith and climate change are connected together and how these connections are sustained and transformed over time. It does so through the prism of three ‘practices of assemblage’ identified by Tania Murray Li, namely forging alignments, authorising knowledge, and reassembling. It emphasises the partnership and combined ef…
Playing with the Anthropocene
The figure of the island as a metonym for the planet is central to many allegories of the Anthropocene. These allegories build upon pre-existing discourses of islands as remote, vulnerable, and timeless, and often portray contemporary island nations as helpless, doomed, and disposable. This article focuses on one allegorical terrain that has received limited discursive and cultural analysis: analogue board games. Board game representations of isl…
Feeding extinction
Among UK-based orangutan conservation supporters, palm oil consumption boycotts are widespread, due to the ecological impacts of oil palm cultivation on orangutan habitat. Yet these boycotts are largely at odds with the stances of orangutan charities. Drawing on interviews with orangutan supporters, this article explores why some Global North consumers are so consumed by palm oil. Palm oil is viewed by orangutan supporters as insidious, invasive …
Only the orangutans get a life jacket
In an era of mass extinction, who gets a life jacket, who is left to drown or swim-and on what basis? This article addresses these questions by analyzing how tropes and practices of responsibility are variously enacted, reworked, contested, and refused across the global nexus of orangutan conservation. Drawing on multisited, collaborative ethnography, we trace the mutually constitutive relation between multiple orangutan figures and commons imagi…
Dodo dilemmas
In a time of deepening social and ecological crises, the question of research ethics is more pertinent than ever. Our intervention grapples with the specific personal, ethical, and methodological challenges that arise at the interface of conservation and social science. We expose these challenges through the figure of Chris, a fictional anonymised composite of our fraught diverse fieldwork experiences in Australia, Burma, Indonesian Borneo, Namib…
Labor, violence and the unfamiliar
Bringing insights from feminist geographies of the home to the animals’ geographies literature, this review posits the more-than-human home as a site of unevenly distributed violence and labor, for both humans and nonhumans alike. It expounds a holistic ecology of the more-than-human home that transcends a focus on companion animals, thereby raising questions of interspecies co-existence, autonomy, and control. Within this, it explores the work t…
Lively gifts and exclusive commodities
Data availability: The data that has been used is confidential
Getting dusty with mice
This intervention models and evaluates an innovative creative method for more-than-human geography: the reappropriation of non-toxic tracking dust from professional pest management as a means of understanding and revealing animal worlds. Combined with the use of black light, the application of the dust in sites of suspected rodent activity makes visible the otherwise hidden feral mouse movements in the researcher's own home. Consequently, it resp…
The Joy of Pests
Professional pest management (PPM)—the deliberate exclusion and removal of unwanted non‐human life—is a form of academically overlooked and socially undervalued ‘dirty work’. PPM technicians carry the physical and moral taint of unclean environments and animal execution. Yet, given its low public status and in a time of mass workplace alienation, why do so many pest controllers seem to love their jobs so much? Using interviews and participant obs…
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