AnthroArt – Action for People and Planet (https://theanthro.art/) is an initiative of three applied anthropology organisations – Antropedia, Namla and Ambigrama – that aims to create an international platform for connecting anthropology and art, with the purpose of deepening awareness about inequality and our relation with the environment and driving change across three geographies: Romania, The Netherlands and Portugal, as well as beyond.
AnthroArt – Action for People and Planet is a two-year project (2023-2024) co-funded by the European Commision, under the Creative Europe Programme (CREA).
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Do no harm to investors? Rosia Montana arbitration and structural injustices - Irina Velicu and Ionuț Codreanu
Corporations have always had the power to demand their rights: their freedom often clashes with the freedom of others to protect their needs and their lives. The article analyzes the arbitration over Roșia Montană brought by Gabriel Resources against Romania in 2015. Beyond Romania’s unexpected victory, we want to highlight that this controversial legal mechanism is a form of perpetuation of structural injustices. Between January and July 2024, our research aimed to analyze how this topic is being discussed by key actors in Romania: we examined public statements by government officials and mainstream media, as well as carried out interviews with residents of Roșia Montana.
Article by Irina Velicu and Ionuț Codreanu, illustrated by Mina Mimosa
https://theanthro.art/do-no-harm-to-investors-rosia-montana-arbitration-and-structural-injustice/ (https://theanthro.art/do-no-harm-to-investors-rosia-montana-arbitration-and-structural-injustice/)
30 Apr 2025
From Block to Garden: How Are Food Practices Changing? - Alexandra Leca
This article explores how migration from urban to rural areas influences dietary habits and promotes the adoption of more sustainable food practices. The research is set against the backdrop of increasing counterurbanization, where individuals are leaving cities in pursuit of healthier, more balanced lifestyles in rural settings. The connection between food and nature is examined in this context, highlighting shifts towards local, seasonal produce, self-sufficiency, and sustainability. The aim of the study is to understand how the dietary habits of people who have relocated from urban to rural areas have evolved in terms of sustainability. Based on semi-structured interviews with seven families who moved from cities like Bucharest, Cluj, and Craiova to nearby villages, the research investigates topics such as changes in food preferences, challenges in adapting to rural life, food sourcing strategies, and levels of awareness and commitment to sustainable practices. The findings show that the transition to rural living led participants to rethink their relationship with food, with many adopting sustainable practices such as composting and growing fresh vegetables in their own gardens. This shift reflects a deeper connection with nature and an enhanced commitment to sustainability, something that participants had not necessarily prioritized before moving.
Article by Alexandra Leca, illustrated by Amandine Bănescu
https://theanthro.art/from-block-to-garden-how-are-food-practices-changing-alexandra-leca/ (https://theanthro.art/from-block-to-garden-how-are-food-practices-changing-alexandra-leca/)
30 Apr 2025
Ri-VER: another look at the city: periferias dibujadas - Kitti Baracsi
The itinerant project Ri-Ver: another look at the city, is a nature-right based observatory of urban transformations. RI-VER means river, but also stands for re-ver, revise, see again, see from a different angle. The central idea of the project is that thinking through the river shifts the anthropocentric and short-term focused understandings, thus we can move stagnant conversations and understand the conflictive transformations in our cities. How do the emotional – including memories and values – political, economic and social landscapes change if we put the river in the centre of them? This conceptual frame is both a base for multimodal ethnographic research and works as a curatorial concept. Participants impersonate the river to learn, understand and imagine possible presents and futures and understand the transformations in course from a different angle. In the spring of 2024, the project started with workshops mostly with children who attend the Bairro Horizonte Residents’ Association’s afternoon activities. The project since then has worked with different age groups, and recently integrated activities with artists and cultural professionals. The proposed article explores the potential of doing urban anthropology through the lens of rivers and critically interrogates the concept of Sustainability.
Article by Rosalina Kitti Baracsi, illustrated by Michaela Jones
https://theanthro.art/ri-ver-another-look-at-the-city-periferias-dibujadas/ (https://theanthro.art/ri-ver-another-look-at-the-city-periferias-dibujadas/)
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