CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Palgrave Studies in
Anthropology of Sustainability
ABOUT THE SERIES
The Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability series aims to bring together research on the social,
behavioral and cultural dimensions of sustainability: on local and global understandings of the concept and
on lived practices around the world. It will publish studies focusing on ways of living, acting and thinking
which claim to favor the local and global ecological systems of which we are part, and on which we depend
for survival. The interdisciplinary approach to sustainability will draw together perspectives from areas such
as human ecology, economic and political anthropology, kinship studies, cosmology, geography, cognitive
studies, as well as science and technology studies, among others. The editors welcome proposals that are
ethnographic and other empirical case studies, as well as more theoretical works. Examples of suitable
themes include: ethnographic approaches to sustainability research, research on alternative economies,
politics/polities or ecologies; cosmologies and sustainability; anthropological contributions to theorizing
the concept of sustainability; and cultural approaches to vulnerability, resilience, and security.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
DR. MARC BRIGHTMAN is Lecturer in Social and Environmental Sustainability in the Department of
Anthropology at University College London. His research has covered subjects including
indigenous leadership in Amazonia, the political ecology of tropical forest conservation in
Suriname, the relationship between indigenous peoples and NGOs, and the globalization of forest
governance.
DR. JEROME LEWIS is a Lecturer in Anthropology at University College London. His research focuses on
the forest hunter-gatherers of the world, specializing on groups in Central Africa, with publications on
egalitarianism, resilience, cultural transmission, gender and taboo, play and ritual, music and language.
Both editors are co-directors of UCL’s Centre for the Anthropology of Sustainability.
For more information or to submit a proposal, please contact the series editors, Marc
Brightman, m.brightman@ucl.ac.uk, Jerome Lewis, jerome.lewis@ucl.ac.uk, or Mireille
Yanow, Global Head of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology,
Mireille.Yanow@palgrave-usa.com
www.palgrave.com