Arne Harms
Biographic Data
| ID | 648785 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arne Harms |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arne |
| FAMILY NAME | Harms |
| SIGNATURE | HARMS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0204-0052 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Negative Hope, or the Cultivation of Possibility amid Interlocking Ecological Crises
Beyond dystopia: Regenerative cultures and ethics among European climate activists
In this article, I analyze practices of self‐formation among European climate activists. I develop the concept of regenerative cultures as a lens to capture nonspectacular practices that embody intimate forms of activism. Drawing on ethnographic research among climate activists, I show that regenerative cultures employs recursive circuits of practicing, retrospective visions, and subjunctive ecologies in order to enable ethical self‐formations ge…
What kinds of activism do regenerative cultures fuel and how might we research them
A substantial part of climate activism does not take place on the street. Of course, any political movement requires invisible work, such as strategising or persuasion. And long-term political activists of different leanings emphasise the need to regularly pause and pamper oneself in order to remain strong for the movement. The climate movement Extinction Rebellion embraces the latter approach under what is being called ‘regenerative culture’. Bu…
Three Ways of Seeing a Forest: On the Social Life of Economization in Indian Carbon Forestry
Irrespective of controversies and frustrated efforts, carbon forestry—the sequestering of greenhouse gases in forests—remains a key element of climate change mitigation. Carbon forestry drives regularly rely on a market-based conservation framework, where forest dwellers are remunerated for their service of maintaining forests through dedicated financial instruments routing global funds. In this article, I turn to India’s first large-scale carbon…
Revisiting Green Neoliberalism in India through the Lens of Market-Based Restoration and Reforestation Projects
This introduction to the special issue revisits the idea of ‘green neoliberalism’ through the lens of market-based restoration and reforestation projects in India. Addressing the strategic role of forests as ‘carbon sinks’ and ‘service providers’ in today’s neoliberal reform projects, it contributes to a renewed attention to the material production of such (un)desired natures and their variegated realities. It argues that empirical accounts of ho…
Accidental Environmentalism: Nature and Cultivated Affect in European Neoshamanic Ayahuasca Consumption
Existing research demonstrates a positive connection between psychedelics and increased nature relatedness. Enhanced affective ties toward nature are widely framed as being built into the pharmakon itself, and the relevance of experiences remains little understood. This paper turns to neoshamanic ayahuasca ceremonies in Europe, exploring the way specialists and attendants refer to nature in speech and performance. I argue that ritual framings per…
Fortifying breath in this moment of spray: Face masks beyond Covid‐19
Filming sea-level rise: Media encounters and memory work in the Indian Sundarbans
In this article, I discuss social consequences of the visualization of climate change. I focus on encounters between film crews and displaced islanders on rapidly eroding islands at the sea-facing edge of the Indian Sundarbans. As these islands have become the epitome of global environmental damage and dystopian futures, film crews regularly travel here to produce captivating footage on degradation and displacement. I first situate the ensuing en…
Leaving Lohāchāra: On circuits of emplacement and displacement in the Ganges Delta
In this paper I focus on the disappearance of the small island of Lohācharā. Once situated in the Indian part of the Ganges Delta, the island fell prey to drawn-out processes of coastal erosion. Later it rose to fame as being the sunken home to India’s – or the world’s – very first climate refugees. Based on fieldwork among displaced and resettled islanders, I engage with the past of the island and its inhabitants. In doing this I show that the d…
Die Klimafalle: Die gefährliche Nähe von Politik und Klimaforschung
Reigning the River: Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu
Anne Rademacher, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011), ISBN 978-0-8223-5080-4, xvii + 245 pp., $US22.95, pbk. Although the imagery of the city as ecology harks back to the very beginnings of urban
Beyond dystopia: Regenerative cultures and ethics among European climate activists
In this article, I analyze practices of self‐formation among European climate activists. I develop the concept of regenerative cultures as a lens to capture nonspectacular practices that embody intimate forms of activism. Drawing on ethnographic research among climate activists, I show that regenerative cultures employs recursive circuits of practicing, retrospective visions, and subjunctive ecologies in order to enable ethical self‐formations ge…
Filming sea-level rise: Media encounters and memory work in the Indian Sundarbans
In this article, I discuss social consequences of the visualization of climate change. I focus on encounters between film crews and displaced islanders on rapidly eroding islands at the sea-facing edge of the Indian Sundarbans. As these islands have become the epitome of global environmental damage and dystopian futures, film crews regularly travel here to produce captivating footage on degradation and displacement. I first situate the ensuing en…
Leaving Lohāchāra: On circuits of emplacement and displacement in the Ganges Delta
In this paper I focus on the disappearance of the small island of Lohācharā. Once situated in the Indian part of the Ganges Delta, the island fell prey to drawn-out processes of coastal erosion. Later it rose to fame as being the sunken home to India’s – or the world’s – very first climate refugees. Based on fieldwork among displaced and resettled islanders, I engage with the past of the island and its inhabitants. In doing this I show that the d…
Accidental Environmentalism: Nature and Cultivated Affect in European Neoshamanic Ayahuasca Consumption
Existing research demonstrates a positive connection between psychedelics and increased nature relatedness. Enhanced affective ties toward nature are widely framed as being built into the pharmakon itself, and the relevance of experiences remains little understood. This paper turns to neoshamanic ayahuasca ceremonies in Europe, exploring the way specialists and attendants refer to nature in speech and performance. I argue that ritual framings per…
Reigning the River: Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu
Anne Rademacher, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011), ISBN 978-0-8223-5080-4, xvii + 245 pp., $US22.95, pbk. Although the imagery of the city as ecology harks back to the very beginnings of urban
Die Klimafalle: Die gefährliche Nähe von Politik und Klimaforschung
Leaving Lohāchāra: On circuits of emplacement and displacement in the Ganges Delta
In this paper I focus on the disappearance of the small island of Lohācharā. Once situated in the Indian part of the Ganges Delta, the island fell prey to drawn-out processes of coastal erosion. Later it rose to fame as being the sunken home to India’s – or the world’s – very first climate refugees. Based on fieldwork among displaced and resettled islanders, I engage with the past of the island and its inhabitants. In doing this I show that the d…
Filming sea-level rise: Media encounters and memory work in the Indian Sundarbans
In this article, I discuss social consequences of the visualization of climate change. I focus on encounters between film crews and displaced islanders on rapidly eroding islands at the sea-facing edge of the Indian Sundarbans. As these islands have become the epitome of global environmental damage and dystopian futures, film crews regularly travel here to produce captivating footage on degradation and displacement. I first situate the ensuing en…
Fortifying breath in this moment of spray: Face masks beyond Covid‐19
What kinds of activism do regenerative cultures fuel and how might we research them
A substantial part of climate activism does not take place on the street. Of course, any political movement requires invisible work, such as strategising or persuasion. And long-term political activists of different leanings emphasise the need to regularly pause and pamper oneself in order to remain strong for the movement. The climate movement Extinction Rebellion embraces the latter approach under what is being called ‘regenerative culture’. Bu…
Three Ways of Seeing a Forest: On the Social Life of Economization in Indian Carbon Forestry
Irrespective of controversies and frustrated efforts, carbon forestry—the sequestering of greenhouse gases in forests—remains a key element of climate change mitigation. Carbon forestry drives regularly rely on a market-based conservation framework, where forest dwellers are remunerated for their service of maintaining forests through dedicated financial instruments routing global funds. In this article, I turn to India’s first large-scale carbon…
Revisiting Green Neoliberalism in India through the Lens of Market-Based Restoration and Reforestation Projects
This introduction to the special issue revisits the idea of ‘green neoliberalism’ through the lens of market-based restoration and reforestation projects in India. Addressing the strategic role of forests as ‘carbon sinks’ and ‘service providers’ in today’s neoliberal reform projects, it contributes to a renewed attention to the material production of such (un)desired natures and their variegated realities. It argues that empirical accounts of ho…
Accidental Environmentalism: Nature and Cultivated Affect in European Neoshamanic Ayahuasca Consumption
Existing research demonstrates a positive connection between psychedelics and increased nature relatedness. Enhanced affective ties toward nature are widely framed as being built into the pharmakon itself, and the relevance of experiences remains little understood. This paper turns to neoshamanic ayahuasca ceremonies in Europe, exploring the way specialists and attendants refer to nature in speech and performance. I argue that ritual framings per…
Beyond dystopia: Regenerative cultures and ethics among European climate activists
In this article, I analyze practices of self‐formation among European climate activists. I develop the concept of regenerative cultures as a lens to capture nonspectacular practices that embody intimate forms of activism. Drawing on ethnographic research among climate activists, I show that regenerative cultures employs recursive circuits of practicing, retrospective visions, and subjunctive ecologies in order to enable ethical self‐formations ge…
Negative Hope, or the Cultivation of Possibility amid Interlocking Ecological Crises
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Art (3 works)