Elisa M. López
@elisalopez.bsky.social
Anthropologist with ❤️ for history, architecture, & the Arctic. Studying resource extraction, cities, & more-than-human worlds in Nordic Sápmi 🔷 Postdoc @ KTH Royal Institute of Technology, School of Architecture
📸 IG: @drelisalopez
📸 IG: @drelisalopez
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A smack of jellies, squadron of pelicans, raft of otters, or galaxy of sea stars...
No matter your favorite collective noun, these groups of animals are a force to be reckoned with when they come together—a simple reminder of the beauty that blooms in community and the strength that grows in unity.
No matter your favorite collective noun, these groups of animals are a force to be reckoned with when they come together—a simple reminder of the beauty that blooms in community and the strength that grows in unity.
November 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
A smack of jellies, squadron of pelicans, raft of otters, or galaxy of sea stars...
No matter your favorite collective noun, these groups of animals are a force to be reckoned with when they come together—a simple reminder of the beauty that blooms in community and the strength that grows in unity.
No matter your favorite collective noun, these groups of animals are a force to be reckoned with when they come together—a simple reminder of the beauty that blooms in community and the strength that grows in unity.
One of the best long songs ever written
Fairport Convention - Book Song
YouTube video by Robert Hulshof-Schmidt
youtu.be
February 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
One of the best long songs ever written
My latest article, "Tears of blood for the cracking city: urban infrastructures of extraction and everyday life in Kiruna, Sweden" is now published Open Access in kritisk etnografi: Swedish Journal of Anthropology!
Read it here: www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...
Read it here: www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...
February 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
My latest article, "Tears of blood for the cracking city: urban infrastructures of extraction and everyday life in Kiruna, Sweden" is now published Open Access in kritisk etnografi: Swedish Journal of Anthropology!
Read it here: www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...
Read it here: www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...
Lihkku sámi álbmotbeivviin / Happy Sámi National Day to all who celebrate! ❤️💚💛💙
February 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Lihkku sámi álbmotbeivviin / Happy Sámi National Day to all who celebrate! ❤️💚💛💙
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
I’m just going to leave this here
(from LinkedIn today)
(from LinkedIn today)
February 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I’m just going to leave this here
(from LinkedIn today)
(from LinkedIn today)
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Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
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I made a gingerbread panopticon
December 24, 2024 at 11:53 PM
I made a gingerbread panopticon
Magical underground St. Lucia concert in Sweden’s Falun Copper Mine yesterday 🕯️
December 15, 2024 at 10:29 AM
Magical underground St. Lucia concert in Sweden’s Falun Copper Mine yesterday 🕯️
RIP to one of the greats. Glad to have met Thomas several times & even join his Overheating project for awhile. My fave memory is running into him during my PhD fieldwork in Kiruna 2013, the day the architecture competition entries for New Kiruna were revealed. Small places 4-ever! Tack för allt ❤️
EASA mourns Thomas Hylland Eriksen
EASA mourns a unique intellectual and remarkably generous colleague, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, who passed away on 27 November, surrounded by his closest family.
easaonline.org
November 29, 2024 at 6:28 PM
RIP to one of the greats. Glad to have met Thomas several times & even join his Overheating project for awhile. My fave memory is running into him during my PhD fieldwork in Kiruna 2013, the day the architecture competition entries for New Kiruna were revealed. Small places 4-ever! Tack för allt ❤️
A few years ago my friend PJ and I created the most perfect culinary fusion of Indigenous Sámi (PJ) and Salvadoran (me) cultures: Reindeer tamales! Today we made a big batch to kickstart the winter holiday season. So good! 🎄🫔 🦌
November 24, 2024 at 6:04 PM
A few years ago my friend PJ and I created the most perfect culinary fusion of Indigenous Sámi (PJ) and Salvadoran (me) cultures: Reindeer tamales! Today we made a big batch to kickstart the winter holiday season. So good! 🎄🫔 🦌
Stockholm office views ❄️❤️❄️
November 21, 2024 at 9:35 AM
Stockholm office views ❄️❤️❄️
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"this is fine"
British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r
British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r
November 16, 2024 at 11:36 AM
"this is fine"
British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r
British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r
While I’ve never played Dungeons and Dragons (though I always secretly wanted to) this essay by @manigarm.bsky.social really spoke to me! Reminds me a bit of my relationship to Tarot and how its helped me see the world in new ways. Maybe not too late to learn how to play…
And this one where I reflect on the similarities between my time as a teenage Dungeon Master and becoming an anthropologist:
thefamiliarstrange.com/2022/09/12/d...
thefamiliarstrange.com/2022/09/12/d...
Choosing Your Own Adventure: My Life as a Teenage Dungeon Master and How It Prepared Me to Become an Anthropologist
In many ways, Dungeon Masters are the ethnographers of their own worlds. Granted, we’re not exactly interviewing the people who populate them, and we’re inventing most of the traditions and customs…
thefamiliarstrange.com
November 17, 2024 at 3:39 PM
While I’ve never played Dungeons and Dragons (though I always secretly wanted to) this essay by @manigarm.bsky.social really spoke to me! Reminds me a bit of my relationship to Tarot and how its helped me see the world in new ways. Maybe not too late to learn how to play…
My Sunday tradition: Tarot reading for the week ahead + album pick from the home collection. I usually post these readings on my #tarot IG account @holymountaintarot, but this one felt right to share in celebration of this new creative space. Wishing everyone a magical week ahead! ⭐️
November 17, 2024 at 3:18 PM
My Sunday tradition: Tarot reading for the week ahead + album pick from the home collection. I usually post these readings on my #tarot IG account @holymountaintarot, but this one felt right to share in celebration of this new creative space. Wishing everyone a magical week ahead! ⭐️
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My word of the day (and personal recommendation) is ‘snerdling’ (18th century): nestling cosily beneath the covers and holding off the day a little longer.
Morning.
Morning.
November 16, 2024 at 9:05 AM
My word of the day (and personal recommendation) is ‘snerdling’ (18th century): nestling cosily beneath the covers and holding off the day a little longer.
Morning.
Morning.
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❗️Podcast Alert ❗️
Featuring environmental anthropologist @cameliadewan.bsky.social, discussing her book, 'Misreading the Bengal Delta'.
We cover the importance of examining local ecological contexts, understanding colonial history, and climate reductionism.
Watch Now: youtu.be/o_zQWKqVSkk?...
Featuring environmental anthropologist @cameliadewan.bsky.social, discussing her book, 'Misreading the Bengal Delta'.
We cover the importance of examining local ecological contexts, understanding colonial history, and climate reductionism.
Watch Now: youtu.be/o_zQWKqVSkk?...
November 14, 2024 at 10:30 PM
❗️Podcast Alert ❗️
Featuring environmental anthropologist @cameliadewan.bsky.social, discussing her book, 'Misreading the Bengal Delta'.
We cover the importance of examining local ecological contexts, understanding colonial history, and climate reductionism.
Watch Now: youtu.be/o_zQWKqVSkk?...
Featuring environmental anthropologist @cameliadewan.bsky.social, discussing her book, 'Misreading the Bengal Delta'.
We cover the importance of examining local ecological contexts, understanding colonial history, and climate reductionism.
Watch Now: youtu.be/o_zQWKqVSkk?...
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"Industrial Complex" by Hilary McDonald is the sixth post in Part IV of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social w/ Jonathan Peyton
niche-canada.org/2024/11/14/i...
#envhist #envhum #extraction
niche-canada.org/2024/11/14/i...
#envhist #envhum #extraction
Industrial Complex
"We Haven’t Yet Said Thanks" explores the deep, often conflicting relationship between extractive mining and the natural world, personifying rock as a living being whose sacrifice for economic gain ra...
niche-canada.org
November 14, 2024 at 4:29 PM
"Industrial Complex" by Hilary McDonald is the sixth post in Part IV of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social w/ Jonathan Peyton
niche-canada.org/2024/11/14/i...
#envhist #envhum #extraction
niche-canada.org/2024/11/14/i...
#envhist #envhum #extraction
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"My thesis supervisor Jürgen Habermas has told me recently he would not have succeeded in today's academia. He has never applied for a grant in his life and he writes long books" - Patrizia Nanz, President of the European University Institute, in a speech today
November 14, 2024 at 10:12 AM
"My thesis supervisor Jürgen Habermas has told me recently he would not have succeeded in today's academia. He has never applied for a grant in his life and he writes long books" - Patrizia Nanz, President of the European University Institute, in a speech today
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"I’m tired — as are many of us [othered] others — of being asked to repair profoundly extractionist, racist, suprematist systems... You want me to repair the image of your [institution]? Why [wld] I want to repair a discipline, a process, a protocol... that clearly is for some, and not for others?"
Field Notes on Repair: 3
The third installment of a series in which scholars, designers, planners, and activists share observations on practices of repair, preservation, and care.
placesjournal.org
November 15, 2024 at 4:28 AM
"I’m tired — as are many of us [othered] others — of being asked to repair profoundly extractionist, racist, suprematist systems... You want me to repair the image of your [institution]? Why [wld] I want to repair a discipline, a process, a protocol... that clearly is for some, and not for others?"
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Okay folks, I also compiled a list of environmental / multispecies anthropologists. #EnviroAnthro
#AnthroSky #Anthropology
It's VERY incomplete, so please let me know who I missed, or if you'd like to be added.
[Or, of course, if you'd like to be removed from this list.]
go.bsky.app/Hax2cvh
#AnthroSky #Anthropology
It's VERY incomplete, so please let me know who I missed, or if you'd like to be added.
[Or, of course, if you'd like to be removed from this list.]
go.bsky.app/Hax2cvh
November 9, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Okay folks, I also compiled a list of environmental / multispecies anthropologists. #EnviroAnthro
#AnthroSky #Anthropology
It's VERY incomplete, so please let me know who I missed, or if you'd like to be added.
[Or, of course, if you'd like to be removed from this list.]
go.bsky.app/Hax2cvh
#AnthroSky #Anthropology
It's VERY incomplete, so please let me know who I missed, or if you'd like to be added.
[Or, of course, if you'd like to be removed from this list.]
go.bsky.app/Hax2cvh
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Rebecca Solnit with unerring brilliance eviscerates the sinister authoritarianism of the tech billionaire class, through the lens of a San Franciscan who tracks the alarming changes to the city wrought by wealth www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rebecca Solnit · In the Shadow of Silicon Valley: Losing San Francisco
I don’t know whether these billionaires know what a city is, but I do know that they have laid their hands on the city...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 7, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Rebecca Solnit with unerring brilliance eviscerates the sinister authoritarianism of the tech billionaire class, through the lens of a San Franciscan who tracks the alarming changes to the city wrought by wealth www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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The Florentine Codex, the oldest Indigenous encyclopedia, a manuscript that documents the language, culture, politics, natural science, and the History of the Mexica and other Indigenous People of Mesoamérica is online, after seven years of work!
Start exploring: florentinecodex.getty.edu
Start exploring: florentinecodex.getty.edu
October 29, 2023 at 3:27 PM
The Florentine Codex, the oldest Indigenous encyclopedia, a manuscript that documents the language, culture, politics, natural science, and the History of the Mexica and other Indigenous People of Mesoamérica is online, after seven years of work!
Start exploring: florentinecodex.getty.edu
Start exploring: florentinecodex.getty.edu