Just like two years ago, Troy co-organized the stimulating 7th Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference at the University of Oxford. Hosted by the School of Geography and the...
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A comparative study of religious-environmental dynamics among Inner Asian and African dryland communities
About
Arid and semi-arid areas, which cover about 41% of the world and sustain two billion people, are uniquely challenged under global environmental change. Shifts in land management, land tenure and land use, political instability, and climate change challenge dryland populations who are often mobile and rely on livestock. In parallel, some dryland areas are undergoing rapid religious transformations, such as conversion to global religions, spiritual revitalization, and radicalization, which occur alongside cultural change, economic diversification, and political marginalization. The MYNA project explores relationships between religious and environmental transformations in dryland areas of Inner Asia and Africa by focusing on Mongolian and Kenyan pastoral systems and northern Mozambican farming systems. This study advances the scholarship on global environmental change by addressing the neglected dimensions of spirituality, religion and religious change. Find out more here.
Myna News
New MYNA photo-podcast highlights changing religious and environmental landscapes in Amboseli, Kenya
In this sixth MYNA photo-podcast Megan Wainwright speaks with Joana Roque de Pinho about her recent fieldwork in Amboseli, Kenya and what has changed since...
Read More >Findings presented in Post-Graduate Anthropology Seminar at the University of Lisbon (ICS)
Team members Troy and Joana recently discussed their preliminary findings at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS), University of Lisbon, in the Seminar in Post-Graduate...
Read More >Religion and Environment panel at the V Conferência Bienal Internacional de Antropologia do Ambiente in Lisbon
The V Conferência Bienal Internacional de Antropologia do Ambiente (Fifth Biennial International Conference on Environmental Anthropology) took place at the Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa...
Read More >ENTRECAMPUS magazine highlights MYNA project
Iscte’s magazine, ENTRECAMPUS, highlights MYNA Project in interview (16 December 2024). Browse the full issue here.
Read More >New MYNA photo-podcast on fieldwork in Mozambique, Kenya and Mongolia
In this fifth MYNA photo-podcast Megan Wainwright speaks with Angela Kronenburg García about fieldwork she has done in Mozambique, and her recent fieldwork in Kenya...
Read More >MYNA symposium participants visit farms in Alentejo
To wrap up MYNA symposium-related activities, what can be better than traveling to the beautiful montado agro-silvopastoral system of Alentejo and communing with the local livestock?We did...
Read More >Kenyan co-researchers take center stage at the MYNA symposium
Stanley ole Neboo, Lenaai ole Mowuo and Richard ole Supeet. Photo: Angela Kronenburg García A highlight of the MYNA symposium in Lisbon was the participation...
Read More >MYNA team members participate in roundtable on Mobile Pastoralism at ISA
On November 11th, 2024, MYNA team members Stanley, Richard, Lenaai and Batbuyan, and CRIA-Iscte’s Júlio Sá Rego were invited speakers in the Roundtable: A conversation on mobile pastoralism...
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Playlist
See team members’ publications here:
Troy Sternberg, Joana Roque de Pinho,
Batbuyan Batjav
ABSTRACT: The developing field of Mongolian International Studies offers a diverse range of research topics. A review of recent articles reflects an emphasis on geo-politics, particularly evolving relations with its superpower neighbours. Whilst state-to-state engagement with China and Russia predominates, regional countries (Japan, Korea) and the US and Europe are examined within the ‘Third Neighbour’ policy. Trade and economics are also studied, from Oyu Tolgoi and mining to the role of the IMF and international agencies. Currently lacking is a focus on human-driven engagement that reflects Mongolian livelihoods, spirituality and community environments. Such social and cultural dynamics are essential to both pastoral and rural livelihoods and to understanding the nation. In 2020-2022 international academic endeavours enabled Mongolian herder representatives to participate in a global drylands exchange network with dryland residents in thirteen countries. The process provided an exceptional opportunity to present Mongolian perspectives to pastoralists and academics from Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. This grounded Mongolian livelihoods and situated rural dynamics in a global context. Here we report key engagements and findings as Mongolian herders shared lives and practices in the context of this international pastoral/drylands project. Moving beyond the political/economic rubric, as this project did, delivers a more representative and complete comprehension of Mongolia to the global international studies community.
Browse the whole issue here
Lhagvademchig Jadamba
Learn about the fascinating life of the former Head of Mongolian Buddhism through MYNA collaborator Professor Lhagvademchig Jadamba’s latest publication “The Ninth Jebtsundampa, Jampel Namdrol Chokyi Gyeltsen” published in The Treasury of Lives, a peer-reviewed biographical encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalaya.
The Ninth Bogd Jebtsundampa Khutugtu, born in Tibet in 1932, was recognized as the reincarnation of the Bogd Khan, who was Mongolia’s theocratic ruler between 1911 and 1924. The Ninth Jebtsundampa’s life in exile and mission to promote Buddhist teachings spanned Mongolia’s transition to democracy, contributed to the revival of Mongolian Buddhism and placed Buddhism at the heart of diplomatic relations between China, India, Mongolia and Russia.
Read the article HERE
Joana Roque de Pinho, Stanley Kutiti ole Neboo, Debra Seenoi, Angela Kronenburg García, Daniel Lepaiton Mayiani, Lenaai ole Mowuo, Matinkoi ole Mowuo, Nurit Hashimshony-Yaffe, Sabdio Wario Galgallo, Troy Sternberg, Batbuyan Batjav, Bolor-Erdene Battsengel, Enkhbayar Sainbayar, Andrea Pase
Based on first-hand accounts of pastoralist friends and collaborators, this chapter examines how Kenyan and Mongolian livestock keepers experienced and responded to early State-enforced lockdown measures (hereafter, ‘lockdown(s)’). We found that, like elsewhere, lockdowns have exacerbated existing socioeconomic vulnerabilities linked to gender, age, and structural power inequalities (Leach et al. 2021). But our case studies also suggest they promoted different kinds of mobility, collective action, pastoral knowledge transmission, and cultural revitalization, and created space for specific livelihood strategies to blossom.
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Stavi, I., Roque de Pinho, J., Paschalidou, A. K., Adamo, S. B., Galvin, K., de Sherbinin, A., Even, T., Heaviside, C., & van der Geest, K.
During the last decades, pastoralist, and agropastoralist populations of the world’s drylands have become exceedingly vulnerable to regional and global changes. Specifically, exacerbated stressors imposed on these populations have adversely affected their food security status, causing humanitarian emergencies and catastrophes. Of these stressors, climate variability and change, land-use and management practices, and dynamics of human demography are of a special importance. These factors affect all four pillars of food security, namely, food availability, access to food, food utilization, and food stability. The objective of this study was to critically review relevant literature to assess the complex web of interrelations and feedbacks that affect these factors. The increasing pressures on the world’s drylands necessitate a comprehensive analysis to advise policy makers regarding the complexity and linkages among factors, and to improve global action. The acquired insights may be the basis for alleviating food insecurity of vulnerable dryland populations.
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Troy Sternberg
Mega-Infrastructure Projects (MIPs) represent a central element of globalized development. MIPs like the Chinese driven `Belt and Road Initiative’ (BRI) include large-scale agrarian, road, rail, port and energy networks. They are complex ventures involving international capital and multiple stakeholders. Disenchanted Modernities presents 16 case studies showing that the promise of a sustainable modern development by MIPs leave many local users disenchanted: They don’t profit from the MIPs but lose access to their resources often held in common property and governed by local institutions. The book describes the strategies of states and companies leading to commons grabbing as well as local responses to MIPs in Asia, Africa, Americas and Europe. This book adds to the debate on the drama of the grabbed commons.
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Christopher McCarthy, Yuki Konagaya, Troy Sternberg, Erdenebuyan Enkhjargal, Buho Hoshino
A detailed study of the ancient caravan routes connecting Mongolia and Tibet has yet to be established. This paper describes the results of initial investigations on the identification of caravan traces through Mongolia from historical sources, fieldwork, and remote sensing reconnaissance. Recreating the Roerich Central Asian Expedition of 1927, we identify several artifacts and locations that support our belief that these routes contributed to the movement and exchange of people, ideas, and commerce across the desert landscapes of Inner Asia and helped shape cultural and religious identities that still exist to this day. Moreover, we argue the Mongolia to Tibet caravan routes were part of the greater network of ancient Silk Roads and should be considered as such: an important, intangible cultural heritage worthy of further exploration, preservation, and scholarly study.
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Unks, R., M. J. Goldman, F. Mialhe, and J. Roque de Pinho
Categorically distinct instrumental values and non-instrumental “cultural” values of “nature” are central to ecosystem services assessments and many wildlife conservation interventions alike. However, this approach to understanding the value of nature is at odds with social scientific understandings that see value as produced through social-ecological relations and processes. With a case study of Ilkisongo Maasai land users living in group ranches surrounding Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya, we apply a relational values approach to highlight the processes of valuation that shape how different people within Maasai society come to have different shared values of wildlife and collectively titled land. First, we detail how wildlife conservation efforts in Amboseli have affected social relations through uneven conservation decision-making processes and unequal distribution of benefits from conservation. Second, we detail how conservation practices have directly influenced changing relationships between people and wildlife. Neglect of elders’ common stances on how relations “ought” to be maintained (both human-human and human-nonhuman relations), and many Maasai residents’ views of the “ownership” of wildlife by a minority have both fueled resentment. We show that an ironic, unintended outcome is that conservation projects, which are intended to increase the “value” of wildlife for local people as a way to foster “coexistence” of people and wildlife on collectively titled lands, are instead contributing to an increased desire by some Maasai for wildlife to be spatially separated from people and livestock. Simultaneously, current conservation projects do not build upon practices that in Maasai views, enabled historical sharing of land with wildlife. Inequality and lack of participation have been highlighted as key limitations of many community-based conservation and human-wildlife conflict mitigation initiatives. We instead focus on how wildlife conservation interventions have contributed to changing human-human and human-nonhuman relations and have in turn impacted long-term Maasai perceptions of wildlife. We argue that an expanded consideration of relational values that emphasizes the inseparability of culture and nature, but also includes a central consideration of power dynamics, might overcome some limitations of previous valuation approaches.
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Francesca Fiaschetti and Lkhagvademchig Jadamba
The chapter offers some preliminary data and a survey of methodological questions for the study of religion and religiosity among Mongolian diaspora communities in Europe. Mongolian migration to Europe is a relatively recent phenomenon, and the presence of diaspora communities in several European countries is linked to the history of Mongolia’s diplomatic relations. Similarly, the chapter looks at religious developments within Mongolia in the last decades to map religious tendencies among Mongolian migrant communities within Europe. By looking at Buddhism, shamanism, and popular religion, the chapter thus investigates the role of religiosities in relation to Mongolian identity and the connection of diaspora communities with the homeland.
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Kronenburg García, Angela; Meyfroidt, Patrick; Abeygunawardane, Dilini; Sitoe, Almeida A.
The literature on land-use frontiers has overwhelmingly focused on active frontiers of expansion. We focus on an emerging
frontier. We studied the decisions, narratives, and practices of the actors driving land-use change in Niassa, Mozambique. Based on
ethnographic research carried out between early 2017 and late 2018 among investors engaged in commercial agriculture and plantation forestry, we show how successive waves of actors with different backgrounds, motives, and business practices arrived in Niassa and attempted to establish farms or plantations yet repeatedly failed and left, or remained but continued to struggle. We show how even though waves come and go, they do leave sediments behind, legacies that over time add up to overcome the various constraints that investors face and gradually form the conditions for a frontier to emerge. We argue that the build-up of these legacies, particularly after the end of the civil war in 1992, has given rise to a new wave, which is qualitatively different from the previous ones in the sense that the actors did not arrive from elsewhere but were already present in Niassa. This wave thus emerges from within the region, building on the legacies of previous waves, indicating that over time endogenous processes may replace externally driven waves. We contribute to frontier theory by arguing that waves and legacies shape emerging frontiers through their dynamic interaction.
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Troy Sternberg, Jerome R. Mayaud and Ariell Ahearn
Global drylands host more than USD 1 trillion in resource extraction investments, which serve to reconfigure communities and landscapes. In Mongolia’s Gobi Desert mega-mining brings social challenges and environmental changes that question if nomadic herding and mining can co-exist. Whilst company and community conflict are common, nascent frameworks and mediation models suggest alternate ways to resolve the mining–community conundrum. Here we investigate environmental transformations that herders encounter in the presence of the Oyu Tolgoi mega-mine in Mongolia’s Khanbogd soum (district). Using socio-economic and physical data collected through interviews, field studies and climate records, we assessed local engagement and adaptation to large-scale mining. Combining qualitative and quantitative methods enabled us to examine the implications of mining for herder lives and lands in an integrated way. This study presents a holistic assessment of the roles of herders, governments and mines in reshaping pastoralism. In our chosen case study, we find that—contrary to common narratives—mining and herding can, and do, coexist in Khanbogd soum, though ongoing challenges exist which deserve critical attention.
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Roque de Pinho, J., Kronenburg García, A., ole Supeet, R., ole Mowuo, L., ole Neboo, S. and ole Mowuo, M. 2025. Pastoralism and Pentecostalism: Religious dimensions of land tenure dynamics in southern Kenya. 7th Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference. School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK. March 20-21, 2025. https://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/events/deserts/index.html
Roque de Pinho, J., Kronenburg García, A., ole Supeet, R., ole Mowuo, L., ole Neboo, S. and ole Mowuo, M. 2025. Pastoralism and Pentecostalism: Religious dimensions of land tenure dynamics in southern Kenya. V Conferência Bienal Internacional de Antropologia do Ambiente. Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, Lisboa. January 30-31, 2025.
Jadamba, L. 2024. Ritual of Removing the Seal of Landlord: Nāgas and Lamas. International Mongolian Studies Symposium Vienna 2024, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, November 25-26, 2024. https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/isa/events/event-detail/international-mongolian-studies-symposium-vienna-2024
Roque de Pinho, J., ole Neboo, S., and Ole Supeet, R. 2024. Pastoralism and Pentecostalism: How Commons and Christianity intersect in southern Kenya Maasailand. 4th International Conference Social Solidarity Economy and the Commons, Iscte-IUL, Lisbon. November 13-15, 2024. https://ssecommons.cei.iscte-iul.pt/
Jadamba, L. 2024. Buddhist Ritual of Removing the Seal of Land-Spirits: Benevolent or Malevolent for the Environment? Pastoralism in transition: Exploring intersections of religious and environmental changes international symposium. ISCTE-IUL & Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa (SGL). Nov. 6-8, 2024.
Wainwright, M. and Roque de Pinho, J. 2024. Relationships between religious changes and environmental changes in drylands: A systematic review of qualitative research. Pastoralism in transition: Exploring intersections of religious and environmental changes international symposium. ISCTE-IUL & Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa (SGL). Nov. 6-8, 2024. https://www.iscte-iul.pt/eventos/3645/pastoralism-in-transition-exploring-intersections-of-religious-and-environmental-changes
Roque de Pinho, J. 2024. Mystical Natures: A project overview. Pastoralism in transition: Exploring intersections of religious and environmental changes international symposium. ISCTE-IUL & Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa (SGL). Nov. 6-8, 2024.
Kronenburg García, A., ole Mowuo, L. and Roque de Pinho, J. 2024. Land, culture and religion among the Loita Maasai of Kenya. Pastoralism in transition: Exploring intersections of religious and environmental changes international symposium. ISCTE-IUL & Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa (SGL). Nov. 6-8, 2024.
Roque de Pinho, J., ole Supeet, R., ole Neboo and Kronenburg García, A., 2024. Pastoralism and Pentecostalism: Private land/sacred land in the Amboseli Ecosystem, southern Kenya. Pastoralism in transition: Exploring intersections of religious and environmental changes international symposium. ISCTE-IUL & Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa (SGL). Nov. 6-8, 2024.
Sternberg, T., Roque de Pinho, J. and Batjav, B. 2024. Encountering spirituality through a Gobi dryland transect. Pastoralism in transition: Exploring intersections of religious and environmental changes international symposium. ISCTE-IUL & Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa (SGL). Nov. 6-8, 2024.
Roque de Pinho, J. 2024. Pastoralism and Pentecostalism: Disentangling the Religious Dimension of Social-Ecological Change in southern Kenya. 16th European Sociological Association (ESA) Conference, Porto, Portugal. August 27-30th, 2024 [Accepted abstract, cancelled participation].
Roque de Pinho, J., ole Neboo, S. Ole Supeet, R.; Kronenburg García, A. 2024. Pastoralism and Pentecostalism: revealing the religious dimension of changing land tenure/use dynamics in southern Kenya. 21st Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR) – Nature, Ecology, and Religious Responses to Climate Change. Gothenburg, Sweden, August 19-23, 2024.
Roque de Pinho, J. 2024. Pastoralism and Pentecostalism: Disentangling the Religious Dimensions of Social-Ecological Change in Southern Kenya. The 2024 EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists) Conference, Doing and Undoing Anthropology. Barcelona, Spain, July 23-26, 2024.
Kronenburg García, A. ole Mowuo, L., Roque de Pinho, J. 2024. Land, culture and religion: change and transformation among the Loita Maasai in Kenya. POLLEN 2024 (Political Ecology Network) Conference: Toward plural and just futures. University of Dodoma, Dodoma, Tanzania, June 10-12, 2024.
Roque de Pinho, J., and ole Neboo, S. 2024. Pastoralism and Pentecostalism: Disentangling the religious dimension of changing land tenure/use dynamics in southern Kenya. POLLEN 2024 (Political Ecology Network) Conference: “Toward plural and just futures”. University of Dodoma, Dodoma, Tanzania, June 10-12, 2024.
Roque de Pinho, J., and ole Neboo, S. 2024. Pastoralism and Pentecostalism: Disentangling the religious dimension of changing land tenure/use dynamics in southern Kenya. The 3rd Great African Rift Colloquium. Maasai Mara University, Narok, Kenya & Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). May 13-17, 2024. [Accepted abstract, cancelled participation]
Jadamba, L. 2024. Mongolia in Motion: Concepts of Nüüdel (moveableness) and Ezen (lord). Workshop on Maps and the Rights of the Nomadic People: Spatial Representations of Nomadic Societies and Landscapes in Northeast Asia. Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. January 11, 2024. http://www2.cneas.tohoku.ac.jp/content/files/20241223flyer.pdf
Roque de Pinho, J., Kronenburga García, A., ole Mowuo, L., ole Neboo, S., and ole Mowuo, M. 2023. Ilpuli leCorona: Maasai meat camps at the intersection of Pentecostalism and a pandemic. 5.º Encontro REPORT(H)A (Rede Portuguesa de História Ambiental). University of Minho, Braga. October 19-21, 2023 [Accepted abstract, cancelled participation].
Roque de Pinho, J., Kronenburga García, A., ole Mowuo, L., ole Neboo, S., and ole Mowuo, M. 2023. War or Wellbeing? Maasai meat camps as a response to COVID-19. 19th IUAES-WAU World Anthropology Congress. New Delhi, India. October 14-20, 2023.
Sternberg, T. 2023. Women herders’ changing role in Gobi pastoralism. 19th IUAES-WAU World Anthropology Congress. New Delhi, India. October 14-20, 2023.
Roque de Pinho, J. 2023. Mystical Natures: Exploring religious-environmental dynamics among Inner Asian and African dryland communities. Conferência 10 anos CEI-ISCTE, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal. October 12-13, 2023.
Roque de Pinho, J. (presenter), Kronenburga García, A., ole Mowuo, L., ole Neboo, S., and ole Mowuo, M. 2023. Maasai “meat camps” under lockdown: Embodying the nomadic values of reciprocity, solidarity and hospitality during a pandemic. Nomadic Ethics and Intercultural Dialogue: Past, Present and Future International Conference. International Institute for the Study of Nomadic Civilizations (IISNC), UNESCO, the Commission on Nomadic Peoples & the Mongolian Anthropological Association. National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. June 22-23, 2023.
Roque de Pinho, J. (presenter), Kronenburga García, A., ole Mowuo, L., ole Neboo, S., and ole Mowuo, M. 2023. Olpul leCorona: Maasai meat camps at the intersection of a pandemic and Evangelical Christianity. VI Oxford Interdisciplinary Deserts Conference, U. Oxford, UK. March 16-17, 2023.
Roque de Pinho, J. 2021. A perfect (good) storm for pastoralists: grass, viruses, culture and lockdown measures in the Maasai Mara, Kenya. Vth Oxford Interdisciplinary Deserts Conference, University of Oxford, UK. July 1-2, 2021. (Online).
Roque de Pinho, J. 2025. Mystical Natures: Religious and environmental transformations in drylands. ISCTE-IUL. February 27th, 2025. Guest lecture, MA (Development Studies).
Roque de Pinho, J. and Sternberg, T. 2025. Mystical Natures: Preliminary findings on interconnected religious and environmental transformations in Kenya and Mongolia. Seminário de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Antropologia. Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS), Universidade de Lisboa. February 21st, 2025. Invited seminar.
Batjav, B. 2024. Re-thinking ovoos in the Mongolian countryside. Mongolian and Inner Asian Studies Unit, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. May 7th, 2024. Invited seminar.
Roque de Pinho, J. 2024. Mystical Natures: Exploring entanglements of environmental and religious changes in Kenyan pastoral drylands. ISCSP-UL. April 17, 2024. Guest lecture, MA (African Studies).
Roque de Pinho, J. 2024. Mystical Natures: Exploring entanglements of environmental and religious changes in pastoral drylands. ISCTE-IUL. April 11, 2024. Guest lecture, PhD (International Studies).
Batjav, B. 2024. Land use changes in social boundaries and the role of religious ovoo in this process. Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. March 28th, 2024. Invited seminar.
Jadamba, L. 2024. The Geopolitics of Reincarnation: US-China conflict over the next Dalai Lama and Mongolia’s role. Iscte-IUL, Lisbon. March 5, 2024. Seminar in International Studies.
Sternberg, T. (presenter), Roque de Pinho, J., Batjav, B., Kronenburg García, A. 2023. Does Religious Change Lead to Environmental Change in Kenya and Mongolia? Post-Pandemic Societies in Inner Asia Project Seminar: Pastoralism, Spirituality, and Performance. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan. May 15, 2023. Keynote talk.
Sternberg, T. (presenter), Roque de Pinho, J., Batjav, B., Kronenburg García, A. 2023. Mystical Natures: Do religious changes impact environmental change in pastoralist drylands: Mongolia and Kenya. Tokai University. Tokai, Tokyo, Japan. May 10, 2023. Invited talk.
Roque de Pinho, J. 2023. Mystical Natures: Exploring entanglements of environmental and religious changes in pastoral drylands. ISCTE-IUL. April 27, 2023 (3h). Guest lecture, PhD Seminar in International Studies.
Roque de Pinho, J. (presenter), and Sternberg, T. (presenter). 2023. Mystical Natures: Exploring connections between environmental and religious changes in Mongolian and Kenyan drylands. Open Environmental Sociology Lecture, ISCSP-UL. April 18, 2023 (4h).
Roque de Pinho, J. (presenter), Sternberg, T. (presenter), and Batjav, B. 2023. Mystical Natures: Exploring Connections between Environmental and Religious Changes. Anthropology section, Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa. January 13th, 2023. Invited public presentation.
Research Team
Meet our dynamic multidisciplinary research team! Experts from diverse fields come together to tackle questions about religion and the environment
Joana Roque de Pinho
Principal Investigator
Environmental Anthropologist
(PhD, Colorado State University, 2009)
Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
(ISCTE-IUL), Centro de Estudos Internacionais and Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University.
Troy Sternberg
Co-Principal Investigator
Geographer
(PhD, University of Oxford, 2009)
Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
(ISCTE-IUL), Centro de Estudos Internacionais
Angela Kronenburg García
Team member
Anthropologist
(PhD, Wageningen University, 2015)
Earth and Life Institute, UCLouvain, Belgium
Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World, University of Padua, Italy
Megan Wainwright
Consultant
Medical anthropologist
(PhD, Durham University (UK), 2013)
Qualitative Research Consultant, and Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Durham University
Lhagvademchig Jadamba
Collaborator
Cultural anthropologist
(PhD, University of Shiga Prefecture, Japan)
Department of Anthropology and Archaeology,
National University of Mongolia and Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
(ISCTE-IUL), Centro de Estudos Internacionais