Embodied Ecologies: A collaborative inquiry into how people sense, know, and act to reduce chemical exposures in everyday urban life.

Project Information

Embodied Ecologies

Grant agreement ID: 101054300

DOI

10.3030/101054300

EC signature date 23 November 2022

Start date 1 December 2022

End date 30 November 2027

Funded under

• European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 499 117,50

EU contribution

€ 2 499 117,50

Coordinated by

WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY
Netherlands

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Deliverables

Data Management Plan (1)

Research Data Management

Drafting Data Management Plan

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

Gendered community-based waste management and the feminization of environmental responsibility in Greater Jakarta, Indonesia

Author(s): Diana Teresa Pakasi, Anita Hardon, Irwan Martua Hidayana, Putri Rahmadhani
Published in: Gender, Technology and Development, Issue 28, 2024, ISSN 0971-8524
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/09718524.2023.2300561

“The river is dead, the lake is dying, the bay is still alive”: vital debates and environmental necropolitics in the Philippines

Author(s): Gideon Lasco, Anita Hardon
Published in: Local Environment, 2026, ISSN 1354-9839
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2026.2687413

Rethinking the science-policy interface for chemicals, waste, and pollution: Challenging core assumptions

Author(s): Jen Iris Allan, Anwesha Borthakur, Fiona Kinniburgh, Moritz Petersmann, Angeliki Balayannis, Andrew Barry, Silke Beck, Kevin Elliott, Tim Forsyth, Anita Hardon, Hannah Hughes, Philip Macnaghten, Henrik Selin, Yixian Sun, Alice Vadrot
Published in: Global Environmental Change, Issue 92, 2026, ISSN 0959-3780
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.GLOENVCHA.2025.102995

Special Issue – Imagining with UPE for a Burning World

Author(s): Yannis Tzaninis [e-mail], Maria Kaika, Tait Mandler, and Roger Keil
Published in: Urban Political Ecology, ISSN 3049-7515
Publisher: Urban Political Ecology
DOI: 10.1177/30497515251361

Editorial

Author(s): Yannis Tzaninis, Creighton Paul Connolly, Wangui Kimari, Tait Mandler, Suraya Scheba
Published in: Urban Political Ecology, Issue 2, 2026, ISSN 3049-7515
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/30497515241299251

Sensing, knowing, and making water quality along Marikina River in the Philippines

Author(s): Gideon Lasco and Anita Hardon
Published in: Human Organization, 2024, ISSN 1938-3525
Publisher: Society for Applied Anthropology
DOI: 10.1080/00187259.2024.2351372

Embodied Ecologies: How We Sense, Know and Act to Reduce Cumulative Chemical Exposures in Our Everyday Lives

Author(s): Tait Mandler, Mariana Rios Sandoval, Michael Lim Tan, Anita Hardon
Published in: Medicine Anthropology Theory, Issue 12, 2025, ISSN 2405-691X
Publisher: University of Edinburgh
DOI: 10.17157/MAT.12.2.9193

Special Issue – Imagining with UPE for a Burning World

Author(s): Yannis Tzaninis, Maria Kaika, Tait Mandler, Roger Keil
Published in: Urban Political Ecology, Issue 1, 2026, ISSN 3049-7515
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/30497515251361773

Anthroposomics: integrating anthropological methods into exposome research

Author(s): Anita Hardon, Martha M. Téllez-Rojo, Michael Anastario, Michael Lim Tan, Cecilia S. Alcala, Precious A. Echague, Amy Kuritzky, Talia R. Gordon, Zoe Boudart, Mariana Rios Sandoval, Elizabeth F.S. Roberts
Published in: Environmental Health, Issue 24, 2026, ISSN 1476-069X
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/S12940-025-01225-Z

Living with industrial glue by being <i>sanay</i> in a small‐scale shoemaking community in Marikina city, the Philippines

Author(s): Precious Angelica A. Echague
Published in: Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 2026, ISSN 0745-5194
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/MAQ.70080

Mapping everyday urban political ecologies: Experiential cartography as embodied methodology

Author(s): Philippe Rekacewicz, Tait Mandler, Doms Cordero, Precious Angelique A Echague, Anita Hardon, Bryan Pauchano, Sophia Pelagio, Mariana Rios Sandoval, Michael Lim Tan
Published in: Urban Political Ecology, Issue 1, 2026, ISSN 3049-7515
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/30497515251364723

Plastic pollution and the open burning of plastic wastes

Author(s): Gauri Pathak, Mark Nichter, Anita Hardon, Eileen Moyer, Aarti Latkar, Joseph Simbaya, Diana Pakasi, Efenita Taqueban, Jessica Love
Published in: Global Environmental Change, Issue 80, 2026, ISSN 0959-3780
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.GLOENVCHA.2023.102648

Confronting the material and structural leakiness of plastics: insights from multi-sited ethnography in India, Indonesia and the Philippines

Author(s): Anita Hardon, Tridibesh Dey, Diana Pakasi, Efenita May Taqueban, Irwan Hidayana, Mark Nichter
Published in: Cambridge Prisms: Plastics, Issue 3, 2026, ISSN 2755-094X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
DOI: 10.1017/PLC.2025.10022

Connecting the Dots: A Collaborative Ethnography of Plastic Leakages in Indonesia and the Philippines

Author(s): Anita Hardon, Diana Pakasi, Irwan Hidayana, Efenita Taqueban, Eileen Moyer, Josephine van Zeben, Tridibesh Dey, Mark Nichter, Michael Lim Tan
Published in: Practicing Anthropology, Issue 48, 2026, ISSN 0888-4552
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/08884552.2025.2536030

Toxic entanglements: Embodying the chemical relations of racial capitalism

Author(s): Tait Mandler, Anita Hardon, Joseph Palis
Published in: Geographical Research, Issue 63, 2025, ISSN 1745-5863
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/1745-5871.70041

Book chapters (5)

Introduction

Author(s): Yannis Tzaninis, Tait Mandler, Maria Kaika, Roger Keil
Published in: Turning up the heat, 2026
Publisher: Manchester University Press
DOI: 10.7765/9781526168016.00007

Toxic land, fertile land: photo essay on film, soil and land making in the French banlieue

Author(s): Mariana Rios Sandoval
Publisher: UCL Press
DOI: 10.14324/111.9781806551576

Title Post-Industrial Self-Gynecology Plant Manual

Author(s): Mariana Rios Sandoval
Published in: Synthetic Becoming, 2023
Publisher: K Verlag

Progestogens

Author(s): Mariana Rios Sandoval
Published in: Hormonal Theory: A rebellious glossary, 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury

Living with cumulative toxicities: reducing harm from below

Author(s): Tait Mandler and Anita Hardon
Publisher: UCL Press
DOI: 10.14324/111.9781806551576

Other (7)

Red River Turning Blue

Author(s): Shania Lucyao
Publisher: Visionscarto

Chemical Use and Strawberry Farming in La Trinidad, Philippines

Author(s): Elvie Nang-is
Publisher: Visionscarto

Sensing Cumulative Toxicities

Author(s): Anita Hardon and Tait Mandler
Published in: EnviroSociety, 2022
Publisher: EnviroSociety

The Embodied Ecologies project

Author(s): Tait Mandler
Published in: Visionscarto, 2024
Publisher: Visionscarto

Pollution in Grenoble through sensorial mapping

Author(s): Afroditi Avgerou
Published in: Visionscarto, 2023
Publisher: Visionscarto

Factories and Fortune

Author(s): Francesca Mauricio
Publisher: Visionscarto

Sophia’s urban itineraries: feeling good, feeling bad

Author(s): Sophia Pelago
Published in: Visionscarto, 2023
Publisher: Visionscarto

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Participatory practices in urbanism as a tool for the analysis of pollution - The perception of pollution in Grenoble, France

Author(s): Afroditi Avgerou
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Institut d'Urbanisme et de Géographie Alpine

Monographic books (2)

Turning up the heat Urban political ecology for a climate emergency

Author(s): Maria Kaika, Roger Keil, Tait Mandler, Yannis Tzaninis
Publisher: Manchester University Press

Packaged Plants: Seductive supplements and metabolic precarity in the Philippines

Author(s): Anita Hardon and Michael Lim Tan
Published in: 2024
Publisher: University of College London Press
DOI: 10.14324/111.9781800087460