‘An Unparalleled Economic Gold Mine’: Climate Finance in Northern Kenya

Moynihan Institute’s Maxwell African Scholars Union presents Amiel Bize, assistant professor in anthropology from Cornell University. 

The talk will focus on concepts and methodology from her new research on financialized responses to climate change in northern Kenya. Bize will describe her preliminary research on a soil-based carbon credits project targeting pastoralists in Kenya’s arid lands and discuss plans for collaborative research in this area.

Amiel Bize is an assistant professor in anthropology at Cornell University whose work focuses on social and economic transformations at capitalist margins. She is finalizing a book project on value in de-agrarianizing western Kenya and beginning new research on financialized responses to climate change that target farmers and herders. She also has an enduring interest in practices of gleaning—the gathering of harvest leftovers—and the conceptual-material importance of remainders.

Amiel received a B.A. in comparative literature and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University and previously worked in Germany at the University of Kassel and the University of Bayreuth.