resurgent production

I study the embodied meanings and politics of resurgent production—efforts to recreate craft objects, revive local food ways, and restore the ecologies of these relations, in ways that establish belonging to land and community. Projects are ongoing with artisans in Sápmi, the Sámi Indigenous homeland transcending Fenno-Scandinavian borders, and postcolonial Cyprus. The work has been published in venues such as Current Anthropology, Journal of Cultural Heritage, and the volume The Sámi World, and is forthcoming with UBC Press and University of Toronto Press. Collaborative community applications of this work mobilizing digital technologies appear in Journal of Cultural Heritage, with discussion of their ethical implications in Current Anthropology.