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"The Sustainability Myth: Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice" by Melissa Checker explores the paradoxes of New York City's attempts to become a sustainable metropolitan area. The book examines three forms of gentrification - green, industrial, and brown - and how they lead to the uneven distribution of environmental benefits and burdens. Checker argues that sustainable urban development often operates as an exclusionary act that furthers capitalist agendas, resulting in the consolidation of wealth for some and environmental inequities for others. The book also highlights the challenges faced by environmental justice activists and the ways in which grassroots activism can foster unlikely partnerships and coalitions. While the book does not provide detailed information on health and illness, it offers a critical analysis of how urban policies have led to environmental marginalization and health inequities. Overall, "The Sustainability Myth" is a well-written and data-rich book that is accessible to students and academics in the fields of urban studies and environmental justice activism. [Extracted from the article]

The breadth and reach of practicing anthropologists in 2009 suggests that anthropology has entered a new phase of advanced engagement at local, national, and international levels. In this article, I review thematic areas in which practicing anthropologists made significant contributions in 2009, including fiscal crisis and business anthropology; U.S. race relations, civil rights, and policy reforms; human rights, environmental change, and displacement; global health and human rights; and war and peace. New areas of expansion are also discussed in the arenas of public archaeology, museums and heritage, and engaged scholarship. Innovations in anthropological research and communicating ethnographic findings with the broader public are reviewed. Keywords: practicing anthropology, public anthropology, 2009 trends, anthropological impacts DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2010.01220.x

Abstract This paper reports on the gendered impacts of Honduras' neoliberal agrarian legislation within the context of tourism development. It draws on ethnographic research with the Afro-indigenous Garifuna to demonstrate [...]

Abstract (2) This paper reports on the gendered impacts of Honduras' neoliberal agrarian legislation within the context of tourism development. It draws on ethnographic research with the Afro-indigenous Garifuna to [...]

The Meskwaki and Anthropologists: Action Anthropology Reconsidered. By Judith M. Daubenmier. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xiii + 416 pp. Notes, index, and bibliography. $55 (cloth). The Meskwaki and [...]

Scholars are increasingly attending to human emotions in the context of changing environments. Here, we draw on over a decade of collaborative work in the community of Utila, a small Honduran island in the Caribbean, to explore evidence of environmental grief through consideration of three broad themes: (1) population and motorized transportation growth as linked to social and environmental decline; (2) mourning over the loss of the ecological bounty of the past; and (3) anticipatory grieving of further, and accelerated, ecological devastation. The growing body of work on ecological grief and solastalgia, as well as the emergent ecologies literature, together help us to wrestle with the destructive forces of the Anthropocene. We consider the importance of documenting and sharing the experiences of community members vis‐à‐vis their changing environment as a mechanism for establishing communities of mourning, increasing environmental stewardship, and imagining and enacting alternatives to dominant models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through a case study of conservation voluntourism this article brings together critical political ecology, multispecies ethnography, and studies of humanitarian tourism to advance a political ecology of multispecies conservation voluntourism. The article presents multispecies conservation voluntourism as a field that produces and is produced by an "affect economy", or an economy based on the exchange or trade in the relational. Since the mid-1990s, life on Utila, Honduras, a popular discount backpacker scuba destination located along the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, has been deeply transformed by the growth of dive tourism, the ecological destruction it has produced, and now the conservation voluntourism industry emerging in its wake. Seventy percent of Utila is comprised of mangroves and associated wetlands, home to several endangered and endemic species. Using examples of whale shark tourism, lionfish hunts, and iguana tracking, this article shows how conservation organizations operate as affect generators, enabling the privilege of engaging in multispecies encounters. Engaging in multispecies conservation voluntourism produces value in the form of cultural capital which is then exchanged for material outcomes by volunteers in the global economy; at the same time, this form of voluntourism obscures local relationships to nature and alters multispecies assemblages from past configurations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]