Institute at Brown for Environment and Society

Myles Lennon, assistant professor in IBES and the Department of Anthropology, joined fellow scholars to discuss the expansion of capitalism and commodities, including renewable energy.

IBES and Anthropology Assistant Professor Myles Lennon discusses "improperty": "modes of ownership that paradoxically unsettle the logics of accumulation and enclosure that are proper to the property form."

In this peer-reviewed article, IBES and Anthropology Assistant Professor Myles Lennon "calls on the [environmental justice] movement to shift from the reductive framework at the heart of the IRA to a regenerative framework aligned with the movement's 'ecological unity' principle."

IBES and Anthropology Assistant Professor Myles Lennon argues that "environmental solutionism is the rhetorical offspring of polluting industries, masking exploitative corporate practices with a facade of apolitical consensus."

Working at the intersection of environment and society, Lennon was recently awarded the University’s Howard R. Swearer Engaged Faculty Award.