Staff profile

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PDRA in the Department of Anthropology |
Biography
Chima Michael Anyadike-Danes is an anthropologist with an interest in the social aspects of energy transitions and decarbonisation. He joined Durham University in 2020 to work on the INCLUDE project exploring local government efforts to plan for inclusive post-carbon futures and concurrently worked on a CESI funded project on the role of energy modelling in local government.Currently, as part of the GEMS project, he researches Durham’s post-coalonial communities.
Chima obtained his PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Irvine (2017). Prior to coming to Durham he was a researcher at the Warwick Business School (2018) and the Sheffield University Management School (2018-2020).
Research interests
- Anthropology of Britain
- Anthropology of Energy
- Anthropology of Migration
- Anthropology of Technology
- Automation and Logistics
- Settler-Colonialism
- Urban Anthropology
Publications
Book review
- Anyadike-Danes, C. M. (2020). Review: Geocultural Power: China's Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty-First Century. Timothy Winter, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 288 pp. Inner Asia, 22(2),
- Anyadike‐Danes, C. M. (2019). Undocumented Latino Youth: Navigating Their Worlds. City & Society, 31(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12217
- Anyadike-Danes, C. (2009). Review: Caribbean Migration to Western Europe and the United States. Runnymede's quarterly bulletin,
Chapter in book
- Anyadike-Danes, C. (in press). Urban Anthropology: Britain. In H. Callan, & S. Coleman (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. London: Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118924396
- Anyadike-Danes, C. M. (2023). A Bear and Those Things Beneath my Knees: Nature in Settler-Colonial Los Angeles. In F. Edwards, L. A. Popartan, & P. I. Nilstad (Eds.), Urban Natures: Living the More-than-Human City (73-87). London: Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781805390824
- Risks, strengths, and governance implications (117-132). Linnefors förlag
- Anyadike-Danes, C. M. (2021). Rethinking Post-Socialism: Making Post-Socialist Mongolia’s Futures in Los Angeles. In I. Stople, & J. Nordby (Eds.), Horizons of Futures in Post-Utopian Mongolia (123-143). (Hardback). EB-Verlag
Journal Article
- an English University. Teaching Anthropology, 10(1), 85-94. https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v10i1.585
- Anyadike-Danes, C. M. (2021). Trucking with Time: The Emergence of New Mongolian Mobilities in America
- Anyadike-Danes, C. M. (2019). You've got to be there to know it: Experiencing LA's Koreatown. Lo squaderno, 7-10
- Anyadike-Danes, C. M., Briante, M., Brooks, E., Cox, B., Govindan, P., Harmon, E., …Zani, L. (2012). Reflections on American Anthropology: A Conference at UC Irvine. American Anthropologist, 114(4), 584-592. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1433.2012.01495.x
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