Paul Keil
@paulgkeil.bsky.social
Undisciplined ethnographer | Sorry academic Interested in human beings who are interested in nonhuman beings BOOK: The Presence of Elephants http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003402985 Research https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paul-Keil
Elephants, and their world shaping power, get around. Unexpected and unfortunate story of Tommy www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07...
How a beer-loving elephant helped build Adelaide's northern suburbs
Tommy the elephant was a playful pachyderm from India that moved from pub to pub in early Adelaide, where he grew a reputation for disturbing people's washing water and ended up contributing to the es...
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Reading elephants long before the papers did Phalke and Lokhandwala with great piece on coexistence and the need to listen to ongoing place based relations between the many kinds of people and elephants www.hindustantimes.com/ht-insight/c...
Reading elephants long before the papers did
This article is authored by Sagarika Phalke, conservation psychologist and Seema Lokhandwala, wildlife biologist and conservation scientist.
hindustantimes.com
Reading elephants long before the papers did Phalke and Lokhandwala with great piece on coexistence and the need to listen to ongoing place based relations between the many kinds of people and elephants www.hindustantimes.com/ht-insight/c...
Reading elephants long before the papers did
This article is authored by Sagarika Phalke, conservation psychologist and Seema Lokhandwala, wildlife biologist and conservation scientist.
hindustantimes.com
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Holding apprehension and inapprehension together through 'presence' in human-animal relations
In 2010 I conducted research on 3-sheep trialling in NSW – at the time, it was a competition whereby the humans - mainly older, rural white males - and sheepdogs -almost all border collies- collaborat...
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Beautiful 2023 game I've recently been playing on android www.slantmagazine.com/games/chants...
'Chants of Sennaar' Review: Rejoice Linguistic Anthropologists
'Chants of Sennaar' is an interesting and impressive game that ultimately feels more than a bit academic.
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the pigs by becoming kin with a human, had learned to hunt their own kind rootling.place/articles/an-...
An Unusual Hunter | ROOTLING
Tractable pigs and binary confounding companions
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That pesky man the hunter trope aeon.co/essays/why-m... "Man the Hunter bubbles up into popular consciousness every few years, in a recurring cycle. It is not just a matter of empirical science – something deeper seems to be at work...."
an easy-to-read introduction to the controversies surrounding the native and invasive species framework. aeon.co/essays/ecolo...
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Almost 2 months in Australia. Kid is now in medicare and about to enrol him in preschool and so the first step of settling back will be complete. Everything else still feels uncomfortably formless and shifting.
"the ongoing practice of running horses into crowds at public protests is obviously a danger to demonstrators and the horses themselves, and the motivations behind police using the horses in this manner are certainly not in the public interest" 2025 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/the-nsw...
The NSW Mounted Police Has Turned Two Hundred Years Old
The NSW mounted police recently turned 200 years old and while the city held a celebratory parade, anticop notes that the unit has a very dark history.
sydneycriminallawyers.com.au
"How can pigs eat shit yet taste so good?" a friend in Northeast India once asked. A paradox and a truly important question. Pigs eat what they want - and what they eat... is a continuous subject of fascination. Especially when their diet revolves around human faeces. rootling.place/articles/san...
Sanitation Companions | ROOTLING
Consuming our most intimate waste
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Support your field's reputable and fully OA journals to help counter the enshittification. share.google/v2aNgdQRH16m...
The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing
Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.
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🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers! Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025 Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills! Please share widely!
Our ongoing dialogue with pigs has cultivated a research approach that values non-linearity, passion, & uncertainty. We foreground diverse & overlooked resources, and are open to spontaneous, exploratory, even if frivolous paths #rootling rootling.place/articles/roo...
Rootling as Research | ROOTLING
An introduction
rootling.place
"Rootling is how pigs eat, play, and know. Rootling.place is a website to wander and wonder about pigs in their many capacities and relations with humans. It is also an experiment that conceptualised rootling as a method of learning and doing research."
ROOTLING
Pigs rootle to eat, play, and know. As omnivorous animals, they use their snouts to disturb the soil, uncover foods and understand their environment and other pigs.
rootling.place
"Rootling is how pigs eat, play, and know. Rootling.place is a website to wander and wonder about pigs in their many capacities and relations with humans. It is also an experiment that conceptualised rootling as a method of learning and doing research."
ROOTLING
Pigs rootle to eat, play, and know. As omnivorous animals, they use their snouts to disturb the soil, uncover foods and understand their environment and other pigs.
rootling.place
Its been about 2 years since we published our multidisciplinary edited volume on human-elephant relations. I'm still impressed with its rich, diverse set of chapters, and the choice to publish OA with IRD Link to book here -- horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/plei...
Unusual choice shooting with NatGeo, but I'll watch it because 1) elephants 2) Herzog lwlies.com/venice-film-...
Ghost Elephants – first-look review
Werner Herzog peers into the Angolan highlands in search of colossal elephants, and ends up gently reflecting on the ghosts of human longing.
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Looking forward to opening up the new academic year with a talk by Fenna Smits Register (in person or online) here: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...
So Juan Martin Dabezies has pretty much been pumping out research related to wild pigs and hunting in Ururguay. And its pretty good stuff. And i'm a bit jealous. But mostly happy to read his prolific work www.researchgate.net/profile/Juan...
Juan DABEZIES | Professor (Full) | Doctor of Philosophy | Universidad de la República de Uruguay, Montevideo | UdelaR | Centro Universitario de la Región Este - CURE | Research profile
I work on issues of multispecies ethnography, more-than-human relations, conservation and biosecurity, local ecological knowledge, heritagization, and archaeology. I am Phd. in anthropology and a prof...
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