Evan Killick
University of Sussex
21 Papers
87 Citations
Evan Killick is an academic researcher from University of Sussex. The author has contributed to research in topics: Friendship & Poverty. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 20 publications. Previous affiliations of Evan Killick include London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Papers
Soybeans, Poverty and Inequality in the Brazilian Amazon
TL;DR: In this paper, a mixed-method approach of econometric and ethnographic field research was used to examine the social and eco-nomics costs and benefits of increases in soybean production in the Brazilian Amazon.
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The ways of friendship: Anthropological perspectives
Amit Desai,Evan Killick +1 more
- 15 Dec 2010
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the importance of proximity in the formation of friendship in Chhattisgarh, India, and the value of friendship and the Mapuche person.
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Godparents and Trading Partners: Social and Economic Relations in Peruvian Amazonia*
TL;DR: In this article, an ethnographic account of contemporary relations between Asheninka men and mestizos on the Ucayali River in Eastern Peru is presented, where individuals use specific cultural idioms in their attempts to counteract the exploitative nature of economic relations.
Empathy and Expertise: Case Workers and Immigration/Asylum Applicants in London
Deborah James,Evan Killick +1 more
TL;DR: The authors explored the contradictory character of one-on-one relationships between case workers and clients in legal-aid-funded Law Centers in South London and found that despite pressure to quantify their work in “value for money” terms, the empathy that often motivates case workers drove them to provide exceptional levels of aid to their clients in facing an arbitrary bureaucracy.
Connected Conservation: Rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world
Rachel Carmenta,Jos Barlow,Mairon G. Bastos Lima,Erika Berenguer,Shofwan Al Banna Choiruzzad,Natalia Estrada-Carmona,Filipe França,Giorgos Kallis,Evan Killick,Alexander C. Lees,Adrian Martin,Unai Pascual,Nathalie Pettorelli,James Reed,Iokiñe Rodríguez,Angela May Steward,Terry Sunderland,Bhaskar Vira,Julie G. Zaehringer,Christina C. Hicks +19 more
TL;DR: Connected conservation as mentioned in this paper is a dual-branched conservation model that commands novel actions to tackle distant wealth-related drivers of biodiversity decline, while enhancing site-level conservation to empower biodiversity stewards.
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