Sarah G. Grant

I am an interdisciplinary cultural anthropologist interested in the ways that industrial agriculture alters the world we live in. My doctoral research focused on the rise of industrial coffee production in post-Đổi Mới Vietnam, resulting in an ethnography of the Vietnamese coffee industry and the ways in which it illuminates post-renovation histories of environment and livelihood, state regulatory practices, global aspirations, consumption culture, and anxiety around climate change in Southeast Asia. I am in the process of completing a full length book manuscript based on this research and developing new research projects including one on cultures of citizen/community science, birding, and bird photography as an emergent form of environmental activism and justice in Southern California based communities of color. Broadly speaking, my interests are environmental anthropology, critical food and agriculture studies, climate change, and social and environmental justice with a regional focus in Southeast Asia and California. I am also interested in pedagogical innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the teaching and learning of anthropology.

 
 
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