Image is by Albertus Vembrianto from his series “The Lost River”. It focuses on indigenous Papuan families that live in embankment areas. This particular mine disposes of 80 million tons of tailing (or waste materials left after the material is extracted from ore). The residents on this embankment are mining illegally in these tailing areas. I highly recommend checking out his work so that you can put faces to people as we try to understand more about the world and the people in it. 
Audio is of an interview with environmental anthropologist Sophie Chao talking about how we need to reframe our questions about the inclusion of indigenous peoples in capitalism to instead ask how we might restructure capitalism entirely to become more sustainable and ethical. She is a brilliant academic putting into academic spaces what has long been too backward or superstitious to publish in journals.

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