About Amber Huff

Research Fellow

Amber is a social anthropologist and political ecologist. Her primary areas of interest include resource politics, the production of social, environmental, and health policy, and the politics of indigeneity and autochthony in resource struggles. Her research projects have involved investigating relationships among environmental policy production and human health and wellbeing, and studying the economic, social-structural, clinical, and policy contexts of healthcare quality and access. She is interested in developing innovative methodological and analytic strategies for understanding relationships between policy processes and human wellbeing, and for understanding how people perceive, respond to, and cope with the dynamic processes of social and environmental change.

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“The world has become weird”: crisis, natures and radical re-enchantment

In this essay, Amber Huff and Nathan Oxley reflect on questions that have emerged through Natures, the STEPS Centre’s theme throughout 2020. Dear Reader, I hope that this essay finds…

Weird ecologies

In this short post, Amber Huff (STEPS/IDS) and Adrian Nel (University of KwaZulu Natal) introduce the idea of ‘weird ecologies’ and explains why ‘the Weird’ has such an enduring appeal…

How to respond to Nature in crisis: look beyond the big stories

The STEPS Centre’s theme for 2020 is Natures. In this introductory blog post by Amber Huff and Nathan Oxley, we look at four lines of enquiry that can help us…

Now is the time to rise up for Rojava

Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have been betrayed by the US, giving the Turkish state a green light to carry out atrocities in Northern Syria, write Amber Huff and Patrick Huff. This blog…

Authoritarianism, populism and political ecology

by Amber Huff and Levi van Sant Based on a number of events convened under the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative, we introduce a series of interventions that explore how political ecologies…

Elif Sarican speaks as part of a panel at the 'Report from Rojava: Revolution at a Crossroads' event

Report from Rojava: Revolution at a Crossroads

Rojava’s revolution is one of the most promising projects of democratization and social transformation afoot in the current conjuncture in the Middle East. Its context within the ongoing Syrian War…

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Just another drop in the bucket on World Water Day?

Each year, the United Nations uses World Water Day as an opportunity to raise awareness and demand action around the global water crisis. Each year, there is a theme. This…