Dr. Beveridge is a socio-cultural anthropologist who has conducted long-term ethnographic fieldwork with Amazonian Indigenous groups in Ecuador and Bolivia. His research has examined Indigenous resistance movements to megaproject development on protected lands in Amazonia such as the construction of super-highways and oil extraction. Beveridge also studies Quichua-speaking Runa philosophy and livelihoods, particularly how Runa understand and engage with nonhuman species such as plants and animals. His dissertation examined the practice of huibana, the capture and raising of forest animals by Quichua women.
Dr. Beveridge’s current community engaged research uses video and other modes to examine multispecies relationships in the production of greenspaces, and more-than-human sociality, wellbeing, and equity in sites across the Carolinas and Appalachia including non-profit organizations’ use of goats to combat invasive species such as kudzu in Spartanburg, SC, and the feral ponies of Grayson Highlands, VA.
Website: www.jimmybeveridge.com
Publications: https://appstate.academia.edu/JimmyBeveridge
Scholarship:
(2023) “Huibana: cultivating interspecies relationships of familiarity and care”. Forthcoming. American Ethnologist.
(2021) “Huibana: cultivating Bobonaza Quichua and forest animal relations of mutual care and utility”. Dissertation, 2021.
(2015) “Settler colonialism, knowledge articulation, and the politics of development in the TIPNIS indigenous territory and national park in Amazonian Bolivia”. Master’s thesis.
(2015) Open Source: Autonomy [click here to download] Crypto anarchy, Amazonian indigenous rights, and activist scholarship. Online.
Title: Visiting Assistant Professor
Department: Department of Anthropology
Email address: Email me
Phone: (828) 262-6381
Fax: (828) 262-2982