Paul Keil

an easy-to-read introduction to the controversies surrounding the native and invasive species framework.

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Shared Ground: Part One | Elephants, People and Movement in Bangladesh: Part One: The Path They Remember In Bangladesh, elephants labelled as intruders are often following paths remembered across generations. This first article in the Shared Ground series traces how human–elephant coexistence once worked...

The piece, Shared Ground, complements ethnographic research I've done in Assam

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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 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.

"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

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My son, the truck While obsessed with trucks (and all manner of vehicles), I do not believe my son, Seth, wishes to be a truck driver. Rather, he wants to be a truck. Seth doesn't just talk about trucks or cars; he d...

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Sanitation Companions | ROOTLING Consuming our most intimate waste

"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.

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The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.

Support your field's reputable and fully OA journals to help counter the enshittification.

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Dolní Vítkovice

🚨 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!

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Rootling as Research | ROOTLING An introduction

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

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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 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 as Research | ROOTLING An introduction

I recommend to also read the set of critical reflections we embedded in the website among the piggy content, which unpacks the reasons, design choices, research ethos and theory that underlies this website. The first entry is here: rootling.place/articles/rootling-as-research

About | ROOTLING What is rootling, how to rootle, and about the website

Throw yourself into the rootling place and explore. It's meant to be initially disorientating, but take that as a prompt for curiosity and to dig further. There is also an About page for more practical details: rootling.place/about

Pigs rootling (Photo: Kieran O'Mahony)

2) As researchers we identified with the porcine activity of rootling. Working with designers we created a website that performs rootling as a method of learning: one that encourages users to re-evaluate the place of playfulness, plotlessness, & heterogenous sources when doing research.

Home | The BOAR Project Anthropology at the intersection of veterinarians, hunters, ASF and wild boar.

2 reasons we/the sounder created this website.

1) We love pigs & felt the need to portray pigs in their bewildering plurality: including but especially beyond the positions of capitalism, farming, hunting, & veterinary sciences that dominated the ERC project we worked on (wildboar.cz)

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 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."

from an article; not a reviewer!

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...

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.

Unusual choice shooting with NatGeo, but I'll watch it because

1) elephants
2) Herzog

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Looking forward to opening up the new academic year with a talk by Fenna Smits

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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...

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

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Instead of live rabbits that were "too expensive and time consuming" there are now fluffy toys in a glass box that emits heat and smell that mimics a rabbit

Robot rabbits in Florida battle to control invasive Burmese pythons in Everglades They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat

roborabbit lures in Florida everglades for Burmese pythons

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Looking forward to opening up the new academic year with a talk by Fenna Smits

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow Multispecies Justice Full time, fixed term for 2 years Opportunity to conduct research on Multispecies justice Academic Level B Base Salary from $127,436 + 17% superannuation About the opportunity The School of Social and...

2 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow Multispecies Justice, under the supervision of Professor Danielle Celermajer, at University of Sydney

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Paul G. Keil, "The Presence of Elephants: Shared Lives and Landscapes in Assam" (Routledge, 2024) New Books in Animal Studies · Episode

Which also prompted me to listen for the first time to this podcast which I recorded 5 months ago now, speaking about my book.

Was surprised I didn't sound like the disastrous mess I imagined myself to be (despite getting a tiny bit lost half way through)

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The presence of elephants: Sharing lives and landscapes in Assam By Paul G. Keil, London: Routledge. 2024. pp. viii + 173. ISBN: 978‐1‐003‐40298‐5 Click on the article title to read more.

Was pretty happy a few weeks back, to come across the first review of my book - 'a moving and unsettling depiction of marginalised ways of life' - by Katherine Fletcher in the Australian Journal Of Anthropology

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