The Webs of Humankind, Ecological Teleconnections and the Anthropocene Debate

Chris Reed Coggins is a professor of Geography and Asian Studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock (Open Society University Network). He is the co-editor (with Bixia Chen) of Sacred Forests of Asia: Politics, Ecology, Cosmology (Routledge/Earthscan, forthcoming), and the co-editor (with Emily Yeh) of Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes of the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands (University of Washington, 2014). He is the author of The Tiger and the Pangolin: Nature, Culture, and Conservation in China (University of Hawaii Press, 2003) (runner-up for the 2003 Julian Steward Award for best book in environmental/ecological anthropology and nominated for the Kiriyama Prize in non-fiction. He has published numerous refereed articles and chapters in geography, environment, and Asia-related books and periodicals. In 2019, he was selected to serve as one of fourteen scholars in Asian Studies on the ASIA Network Speakers Bureau.