Recent Publications from the Dove Lab

Books

Hearsay Is Not Excluded

A History of Natural History

This chronicle of natural history argues that the modern environmental crisis and rise in science skepticism codeveloped with the historic distancing of scientific knowledge from folk knowledge.

Bitter Shade

The Ecological Challenge of Human Consciousness

This book asks age-old questions about the relationship between human consciousness and the environment: How do we think about our own thoughts and actions? How can we transcend the exigencies of daily life? How can we achieve sufficient distance from our own everyday realities to think and act more sustainably?

Climate Cultures

Anthropological Perspectives on Climate Change

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our times, yet also seemingly intractable. This book offers novel insights on this contemporary challenge, drawing together the state-of-the-art thinking in anthropology.

Journal Articles & Book Chapters

Orrick, K., Dove, M., & Schmitz, O. J. (2024). Human–nature relationships: An introduction to social–ecological practice theory for human–wildlife interactions. Ambio, 53(2), 201-211.

Yamada, S., Kanoi, L., Koh, V., Lim, A., & Dove, M. R. (2022). Sustainability as a moral discourse: Its shifting meanings, exclusions, and anxieties. Sustainability, 14(5), 3095.

Kanoi, L., Koh, V., Lim, A., Yamada, S., & Dove, M. R. (2022). ‘What is infrastructure? What does it do?’: anthropological perspectives on the workings of infrastructure (s). Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, 2(1), 012002.

Zhou, W., Orrick, K., Lim, A., & Dove, M. (2021). Reframing conservation and development perspectives on bushmeat. Environmental Research Letters, 17(1), 011001.

Klein, W., Dove, M. R., & Felson, A. J. (2021). Engaging the unengaged: Understanding residents’ perceptions of social access to urban public space. Urban forestry & urban greening, 59, 126991.

Dove, M. R. (2021). Process versus product in Bornean augury: A traditional knowledge system’s solution to the problem of knowing. In Redefining Nature (pp. 557-596). Routledge.

Osterhoudt, S., Galvin, S. S., Graef, D. J., Saxena, A. K., & Dove, M. R. (2020). Chains of Meaning: Crops, commodities, and the ‘in-between’spaces of trade. World Development, 135, 105070.

Dove, M. R. (2019). Plants, politics, and the imagination over the past 500 years in the Indo-Malay region. Current Anthropology, 60(S20), S309-S320.

Dove, M. R., Johnson, A., Lefebvre, M., Burow, P., Zhou, W., & Kanoi, L. (2019). Who is in the commons: defining community, commons, and time in long-term natural resource management. Global perspectives on long term community resource management, 23-40.