Earthly Models

Earthly Models

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Earthly Models

Ethnographic Encounters in Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research

Written by Anja Klein

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Models of floods, disease, lakes, and fish don’t arrive ready-made – they’re patched together from code, data, software, theory, habits, and disagreement. Anja Klein follows that patchwork in action through fieldwork with two interdisciplinary research groups: a project in Accra tracking diarrhea and flood risk under climate change, and a Stockholm-based group building simulation models of social-ecological systems. How do materiality, difference, and complexity get handled in the daily work of modeling? What gets to be included and what is left out and why? Moving between ethnography and equations, the study traces moments of frictions and surprise that shape what a model can or cannot say about the world. In a grounded account of ›earthly modeling‹, the volume shows the potential of working across ethnography and simulation for knowing better our planet in crisis.

Anja Klein is an anthropologist working in interdisciplinary sustainability research. As a postdoctoral researcher at Ruhr-Universität Bochum she is part of an international consortium researching biodiversity decline in the Mediterranean. She studied social and cultural anthropology and science and technology studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, and Aix-Marseille Université, and completed her doctoral research at the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems. Her research interests include feminist theory, material semiotics, and environmental anthropology, with a focus on social-ecological systems and relations, multispecies studies, as well as connecting and situating qualitative and quantitative methods.

ISBN-13
9783837683769
Publisher
transcript
Imprint
transcript
Publication date
31 October 2026
Format
Paperback
Pages
312
Dimensions
225 x 148 mm
Language
English

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