Publications - a selection

Harms, Arne, Hans-Michael Mingenbach, Julia Vorhölter, and Tom Renner. 2023. Kohlekraftwerk am Nationalpark? Ein Rollenspiel zu Interessenskonflikten von Umweltschutz und Entwicklung in Bangladesch. Geographie heute 44(363): 34–37.

Kofti, Dimitra, Arne Harms, and Isabell Rivoal. 2023. Editorial. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale 31(4): v-vi. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/saas.2023.310401.

Harms, Arne. 2022. Beyond dystopia: regenerative cultures and ethics among european climate activists. American Anthropologist 124(3): 515–524. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13751.

Harms, Arne. 2021. Three ways of seeing a forest: on the social life of economization in indian carbon forestry. Journal of South Asian Development 16(3): 367–386. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/09731741211053785.

Harms, Arne. 2021. Still mired in growth: from COP to a culture of quitting. Monthly Bulletin of the Asiatic Society 50(10): 27–29.

Harms, Arne. 2021. Revisiting green neoliberalism in India through the lens of market-based restoration and reforestation projects. Journal of South Asian Development 16(3): 327–341. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/09731741211052197.

Harms, Arne. 2021. What kinds of activism do regenerative cultures fuel and how might we research them? Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale 29(1): 238–240. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13001.

Harms, Arne. 2021. Accidental environmentalism: nature and cultivated affect in European neoshamanic ayahuasca consumption. Anthropology of Consciousness 32(1): 55–80. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/anoc.12130.

Harms, Arne. 2020. Fortifying breath in this moment of spray: face masks beyond COVID‐19. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale 28(2): 277–278. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12858.

Harms, Arne. 2018. Filming sea-level rise: media encounters and memory work in the Indian Sundarbans. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 24(3): 475–492. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12856.

Harms, Arne. 2018. La ciudadanía corroída: desplazamiento ambiental y relaciones de Estado en Sundarbans, India. Ecología Política 55: 41–47.

Harms, Arne. 2017. Citizenship at sea: environmental displacement and state relations in the Indian Sundarbans. Economic and Political Weekly 52(33): 69.

Harms, Arne. 2015. Leaving Lohācharā: on circuits of emplacement and displacement in the Ganges Delta. Global Environment 8(1): 62–85. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3197/ge.2015.080104.

Harms, Arne. 2020. Under the climate radar: disaster and displacement in the Bengal Delta. In: Ali Nobil Ahmad and Heinrich Böll Stiftung (eds.). Climate justice and migration: mobility, development, and displacement in the global south. Democracy 57. Berlin: Heinrich Böll Stiftung, pp. 150–155.

Harms, Arne. 2019. Adapting to sea-level rise in the Indian Ocean: the cases of India and Bangladesh. In: Paul G. Harris (ed.). Climate change and ocean governance: politics and policy for threatened seas. Cambridge; New York; Melbourne; New Delhi; Singapore: Cambridge University Press, pp. 75–89.

Harms, Arne and Oliver Powalla. 2016. India: the long march to a climate movement. In: Matthias Dietz and Heiko Garrelts (eds.). Routledge handbook of the climate change movement. Routledge International Handbooks. London; New York: Routledge, pp. 179–193.

Harms, Arne. 2012. Squatters on a shrinking coast: environmental hazards, memory and social resilience in the Ganges Delta. In: Ute Luig (ed.). Negotiating disasters: politics, representation, meanings. Frankfurt am Main; Berlin; Bern; Bruxelles; New York; Oxford; Wien: Peter Lang, pp. 105–128.

Harms, Arne. 2015. Dwelling in loss: environment, displacement and memory in the Indian Ganges Delta. PhD Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin.

Harms, Arne. 2018. Accretive enclaves: carbon sequestration and market-based conservation in India. Working Paper Series des SFB 1199 an der Universität Leipzig 12. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag.

Harms, Arne and Sarah Benabou (eds.). 2021. Market-based restoration and reforestation projects in India: the ambivalences of green neoliberalism. Journal of South Asian Development 16(3).

Harms, Arne. 2024. Salvaging a sense of possibility despite ecological gloom. Living in a Mode of Despite. https://americanethnologist.org/online-content/collections/living-in-a-mode-of-despite/salvaging-a-sense-of-possibility-despite-ecological-gloomby-arne-harms/.

Harms, Arne. 2022. Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew, and Brent Ryan Bellamy (eds.): An Ecotopian Lexicon. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 327 pp. Anthropos 117(2): 581–582. DOI: https://doi.org/doi.org/10.5771/0257-9774-2022-2-581.

Harms, Arne. 2024. Enduring erosions: environmental displacement and relocation on India's sinking coasts. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.

Harms, Arne. 2019. Infrastrukturen. Dialektik des Globalen 2. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Harms, Arne. 2021. Seeding futures: regeneration as utopian promise. Weather Matters. https://www.weathermatters.net/seeding-futures.