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DESCRIPTION:Moynihan Institute’s Maxwell African Scholars Union presents Am
iel Bize\, assistant professor in anthropology from Cornell University.&nb
sp\;The talk will focus on concepts and methodology from her new research
on financialized responses to climate change in northern Kenya. Bize will
describe her preliminary research on a soil-based carbon credits project t
argeting pastoralists in Kenya’s arid lands and discuss plans for collabor
ative research in this area.Amiel Bize is an assistant professor in anthro
pology at Cornell University whose work focuses on social and economic tra
nsformations at capitalist margins. She is finalizing a book project on va
lue in de-agrarianizing western Kenya and beginning new research on financ
ialized responses to climate change that target farmers and herders. She a
lso has an enduring interest in practices of gleaning—the gathering of har
vest leftovers—and the conceptual-material importance of remainders. Amiel
received a B.A. in comparative literature and a Ph.D. in anthropology fro
m Columbia University and previously worked in Germany at the University o
f Kassel and the University of Bayreuth.
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SUMMARY:‘An Unparalleled Economic Gold Mine’: Climate Finance in Northern K
enya
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Moynihan Institute’s Maxwell Afr
ican Scholars Union presents Amiel Bize\, assistant professor in anthropol
ogy from Cornell University. \;
The talk will focus on conc
epts and methodology from her new research on financialized responses to c
limate change in northern Kenya. Bize will describe her preliminary resear
ch on a soil-based carbon credits project targeting pastoralists in Kenya’
s arid lands and discuss plans for collaborative research in this area.
Amiel Bize is an assistant professor in anthro
pology at Cornell University whose work focuses on social and economic tra
nsformations at capitalist margins. She is finalizing a book project on va
lue in de-agrarianizing western Kenya and beginning new research on financ
ialized responses to climate change that target farmers and herders. She a
lso has an enduring interest in practices of gleaning—the gathering of har
vest leftovers—and the conceptual-material importance of remainders.
Amiel received a B.A. in comparative literature and a Ph.D.
in anthropology from Columbia University and previously worked in Germany
at the University of Kassel and the University of Bayreuth.
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