Saskia De Wit
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 954097 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Saskia De Wit |
| PRENOMES | Saskia |
| SOBRENOME | De Wit |
| ASSINATURA | DE WIT S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4696-2777 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Representing the More-than-Human
In the thread Landscape Metropolis, SPOOL addresses the interrelation between urban, infrastructural, rural, and living formations as a dynamic, intertwined, and layered landscape structure. Triggered by the profound changes of the Anthropocene, the complexity of the metropolitan landscape asks for reorientation when addressing physical space as well as spatial investigation and theory, in terms of aesthetic appreciation, designerly concepts, gui…
Water, sanitation and hygiene (Wash)
Despite some progress, universal access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) by 2030—a remit of Sustainable Development Goal 6—remains a distant prospect in many countries. Policy-makers and implementers of the WASH sector are challenged to track a new path. This research aimed to identify core orienting themes of the sector, as legacies of past processes, which can provide insights for its future. We reviewed global policy, science and p…
Climate change reception studies in anthropology
The past decade has seen increased anthropological attention to understandings of climate change not only as a biophysical phenomenon but also as a discourse that is traveling from international policy making platforms to the rest of the planet. The analysis of the uptake of climate change discourse falls under the emergent subfield of climate change reception studies. A few anthropological investigations identify themselves explicitly as recepti…
Gender and climate change as new development tropes of vulnerability for the Global South
This article explores how international discourses on gender and climate change currently unfold for the Global South, and compares this with earlier gender discourses that traveled to Maasailand (Tanzania). By tracing the genealogy of older gender imaginaries, striking similarities emerge between the traveling discourses which position (African) women as vulnerable. This article argues against the feminization of climate change: the simplistic a…
Emergency flood bulletins for Cyclones Idai and Kenneth
Humanitarian disasters such as Typhoon Haiyan (SE Asia, 2013) and the Horn of Africa drought (2011–2012) are examples of natural hazards that were predicted, but where forecasts were not sufficiently acted upon, leading to considerable loss of life. These events, alongside international adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, have motivated efforts to enable early action from early warnings. Through initiatives such as Forec…
Victims or Masters of Adaptation? How the Idea of Adaptation to Climate Change Travels Up and Down to a Village in Simanjiro, Maasailand Northern Tanzania
This chapter explores how the nascent idea of Adaptation to Climate Change is translated in northern Tanzania. By interrogating how non-governmental organisations and other actors in northern Tanzania adapt to the idea of adaptation itself we gain insight into the ways in which a new development paradigm comes into being. Based on fourteen months of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork this chapter reveals the politics of adaptation that emerge in …
Translating Climate Change. Anthropology and the Travelling Idea of Climate Change - Introduction
In the prairies of Alberta, Canada, winters are cold, wood is scarce. This place is home to Native Americans – many of them are highly educated nowadays. One summer, a young Native American Chief, college-educated and incapable of reading the signs of Mother Nature, was asked by his people how cold the next winter will be. Embarrassed of not mastering the traditional skills for predicting the weather, and to be on the safe side, he said to his pe…
Global Warning
The Enclosed Garden
Climate change reception studies in anthropology
The past decade has seen increased anthropological attention to understandings of climate change not only as a biophysical phenomenon but also as a discourse that is traveling from international policy making platforms to the rest of the planet. The analysis of the uptake of climate change discourse falls under the emergent subfield of climate change reception studies. A few anthropological investigations identify themselves explicitly as recepti…
Translating Climate Change. Anthropology and the Travelling Idea of Climate Change - Introduction
In the prairies of Alberta, Canada, winters are cold, wood is scarce. This place is home to Native Americans – many of them are highly educated nowadays. One summer, a young Native American Chief, college-educated and incapable of reading the signs of Mother Nature, was asked by his people how cold the next winter will be. Embarrassed of not mastering the traditional skills for predicting the weather, and to be on the safe side, he said to his pe…
Victims or Masters of Adaptation? How the Idea of Adaptation to Climate Change Travels Up and Down to a Village in Simanjiro, Maasailand Northern Tanzania
This chapter explores how the nascent idea of Adaptation to Climate Change is translated in northern Tanzania. By interrogating how non-governmental organisations and other actors in northern Tanzania adapt to the idea of adaptation itself we gain insight into the ways in which a new development paradigm comes into being. Based on fourteen months of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork this chapter reveals the politics of adaptation that emerge in …
Gender and climate change as new development tropes of vulnerability for the Global South
This article explores how international discourses on gender and climate change currently unfold for the Global South, and compares this with earlier gender discourses that traveled to Maasailand (Tanzania). By tracing the genealogy of older gender imaginaries, striking similarities emerge between the traveling discourses which position (African) women as vulnerable. This article argues against the feminization of climate change: the simplistic a…
The Enclosed Garden
Global Warning
Victims or Masters of Adaptation? How the Idea of Adaptation to Climate Change Travels Up and Down to a Village in Simanjiro, Maasailand Northern Tanzania
This chapter explores how the nascent idea of Adaptation to Climate Change is translated in northern Tanzania. By interrogating how non-governmental organisations and other actors in northern Tanzania adapt to the idea of adaptation itself we gain insight into the ways in which a new development paradigm comes into being. Based on fourteen months of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork this chapter reveals the politics of adaptation that emerge in …
Translating Climate Change. Anthropology and the Travelling Idea of Climate Change - Introduction
In the prairies of Alberta, Canada, winters are cold, wood is scarce. This place is home to Native Americans – many of them are highly educated nowadays. One summer, a young Native American Chief, college-educated and incapable of reading the signs of Mother Nature, was asked by his people how cold the next winter will be. Embarrassed of not mastering the traditional skills for predicting the weather, and to be on the safe side, he said to his pe…
Emergency flood bulletins for Cyclones Idai and Kenneth
Humanitarian disasters such as Typhoon Haiyan (SE Asia, 2013) and the Horn of Africa drought (2011–2012) are examples of natural hazards that were predicted, but where forecasts were not sufficiently acted upon, leading to considerable loss of life. These events, alongside international adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, have motivated efforts to enable early action from early warnings. Through initiatives such as Forec…
Climate change reception studies in anthropology
The past decade has seen increased anthropological attention to understandings of climate change not only as a biophysical phenomenon but also as a discourse that is traveling from international policy making platforms to the rest of the planet. The analysis of the uptake of climate change discourse falls under the emergent subfield of climate change reception studies. A few anthropological investigations identify themselves explicitly as recepti…
Gender and climate change as new development tropes of vulnerability for the Global South
This article explores how international discourses on gender and climate change currently unfold for the Global South, and compares this with earlier gender discourses that traveled to Maasailand (Tanzania). By tracing the genealogy of older gender imaginaries, striking similarities emerge between the traveling discourses which position (African) women as vulnerable. This article argues against the feminization of climate change: the simplistic a…
Water, sanitation and hygiene (Wash)
Despite some progress, universal access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) by 2030—a remit of Sustainable Development Goal 6—remains a distant prospect in many countries. Policy-makers and implementers of the WASH sector are challenged to track a new path. This research aimed to identify core orienting themes of the sector, as legacies of past processes, which can provide insights for its future. We reviewed global policy, science and p…
Representing the More-than-Human
In the thread Landscape Metropolis, SPOOL addresses the interrelation between urban, infrastructural, rural, and living formations as a dynamic, intertwined, and layered landscape structure. Triggered by the profound changes of the Anthropocene, the complexity of the metropolitan landscape asks for reorientation when addressing physical space as well as spatial investigation and theory, in terms of aesthetic appreciation, designerly concepts, gui…
Political science (5 obras) · Geography (4 obras) · Climate change (3 obras) · Ecology (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (3 obras) · Archaeology (2 obras) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (2 obras) · Disaster Management and Resilience (2 obras) · Ecology (2 obras)