Scholars
Jamon A Halvaksz II
Georgetown University
Based in
United States
North America
Jamon Alex Halvaksz, II is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Georgetown University and has conducted fieldwork in Papua New Guinea since 1998. While initially focused on mining in rural communities in Papua New Guinea, his recent research attends to urban life, and what it means to be resilient in the face of climate change, population growth, increased demands for housing, water, food, green spaces, breathable air, etc. In short, what kind of politics does the urban require of humanity? Since 2020, he investigated both Oceanic and North American urban resiliency in light of extreme weather and climate change.
Country(ies) of Specialty
Papua New Guinea United StatesFocus areas of expertise
Climate policy and politics Climate JusticeHow to Connect
Publications
Articles
Halvaksz, Jamon. Gardens of Gold: Place-Making in Papua New Guinea. University of Washington Press. 2020. https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295747590/gardens-of-gold/
Halvaksz, Jamon. “Environmental Anthropology.” The Sage Handbook of Cultural Anthropology. edited by L. Pedersen and L. Cliggett, eds. Sage Publishing. 2021 https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/the-sage-handbook-of-cultural-anthropology/book270178#contents
Halvaksz, Jamon and Joshua Bell, editors. Naturalist Histories: Making Nature, Knowledge, and People in Oceania.University of Hawai’i Press. 2024. https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/naturalist-histories-making-nature-knowledge-and-people-in-oceania/
Halvaksz, Jamon. “The Slow Deaths of Climate Change: A Planetary View from Papua New Guinea, Cultural Anthropology, vol. 41, no. 1. 2026, forthcoming.