Raycraft, Justin
Assistant Professor
- Phone
- (403) 329-2489
- justin.raycraft@uleth.ca
Office Hours
Tuesdays: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
About Me
I direct the Applied Research in Environmental Anthropology (AREA) Lab. Our group uses mixed ethnographic methods to study human-environment interactions across space and time. We currently have a primary field site in the Tarangire ecosystem of northern Tanzania. I welcome inquiries from prospective students and postdocs interested in carrying out research under the umbrella of the AREA Lab.
I teach the following courses at the University of Lethbridge:
ANTH 4850 - Wildlife and People (Spring 2023)
ANTH 2210 - Cultures of East Africa (Fall 2023)
ANTH 2850 - Visual Anthropology (Spring 2024, 2025)
ANTH 1000 - The Anthropological Perspective (Spring, Fall 2024)
CSPT 5305/7303 Critical Theory (Fall 2024)
ANTH 2710 - Introduction to Environmental Anthropology (Spring 2025)
I teach the following courses at the University of Lethbridge:
ANTH 4850 - Wildlife and People (Spring 2023)
ANTH 2210 - Cultures of East Africa (Fall 2023)
ANTH 2850 - Visual Anthropology (Spring 2024, 2025)
ANTH 1000 - The Anthropological Perspective (Spring, Fall 2024)
CSPT 5305/7303 Critical Theory (Fall 2024)
ANTH 2710 - Introduction to Environmental Anthropology (Spring 2025)
Biography
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Lethbridge (Current)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on Science, Technology, and Society, Harvard University (2022)
Ph.D. Anthropology, McGill University (2022)
M.A. Anthropology, University of British Columbia (2016)
B.A. Psychology (Major) and Anthropology (Minor), University of British Columbia (2013)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on Science, Technology, and Society, Harvard University (2022)
Ph.D. Anthropology, McGill University (2022)
M.A. Anthropology, University of British Columbia (2016)
B.A. Psychology (Major) and Anthropology (Minor), University of British Columbia (2013)
Publications
Raycraft, Justin. 2023. Wildlife and human safety in the Tarangire ecosystem, Tanzania. Trees, Forests, and People 13(100418):1-11.
Kisingo, Alex, Justin Raycraft, Neema M. Lekule. 2023. Attitudes of communities living near Rau Forest Reserve, Tanzania towards Mount Kilimanjaro black and white colobus monkeys (Colobus caudatus): A pilot study. African Journal of Ecology 00:1-4.
Raycraft, Justin. 2022. Community attitudes towards Randilen Wildlife Management Area. In Tarangire: Human-wildlife coexistence in a fragmented ecosystem. Eds. Christian Kiffner, Derek Lee, and Monica Bond. Pp. 109-128. Springer: New York, NY.
Kisingo, Alex, Justin Raycraft, Baltazar Mboya. 2021. Community awareness of critically endangered pancake tortoises (Malacochersus tornieri) in a village near Tarangire National Park, Tanzania: A pilot study. African Journal of Ecology 00:1-4.
Raycraft, Justin. 2021. Islamic discourses of environmental change on the Swahili coast of southern Tanzania. Human Organization 80(1):49-60.
Raycraft, Justin. 2020. Seeing from below: Scuba diving and the regressive cyborg. Anthropology and Humanism 45(2):301-321.
Raycraft, Justin. 2020. The (un)making of marine park subjects: Environmentality and everyday resistance in a coastal Tanzanian village. World Development 126(1):1-12.
Raycraft, Justin. 2019a. "In search of a good life": Perspectives on village out-migration in a Tanzanian marine park. Journal of Rural Studies 70(1):36-48.
Raycraft, Justin. 2019b. Conserving poverty: Destructive fishing gear use in a Tanzanian marine protected area. Conservation and Society 17(3):297-309.
Kamat, Vinay, Phillipe Le Billon, Rose Mwaipopo, Justin Raycraft. 2019. Natural gas extraction and community development in Tanzania: Documenting gaps between rhetoric and reality. The Extractive Industries and Society 6(1):968-976.
Raycraft, Justin. 2019c. From attention to distraction to attention: Considering an ADD Anthropology. PAN: Philosophy, Activism, and Nature 14(1):73-79.
Raycraft, Justin. 2019d. Circumscribing communities: Marine conservation and territorialization in southeastern Tanzania. Geoforum 100(1):128-143.
Raycraft, Justin. 2018a. Dilemmas of representation in contemporary environmental anthropology: Documenting dynamite fishing in southeastern Tanzania. Ethnobiology Letters 9(2): 289-298.
Raycraft, Justin. 2018b. Marine protected areas and spatial fetishism: A viewpoint on destructive fishing in coastal Tanzania. Marine Pollution Bulletin 133(1):478-480.
Kisingo, Alex, Justin Raycraft, Neema M. Lekule. 2023. Attitudes of communities living near Rau Forest Reserve, Tanzania towards Mount Kilimanjaro black and white colobus monkeys (Colobus caudatus): A pilot study. African Journal of Ecology 00:1-4.
Raycraft, Justin. 2022. Community attitudes towards Randilen Wildlife Management Area. In Tarangire: Human-wildlife coexistence in a fragmented ecosystem. Eds. Christian Kiffner, Derek Lee, and Monica Bond. Pp. 109-128. Springer: New York, NY.
Kisingo, Alex, Justin Raycraft, Baltazar Mboya. 2021. Community awareness of critically endangered pancake tortoises (Malacochersus tornieri) in a village near Tarangire National Park, Tanzania: A pilot study. African Journal of Ecology 00:1-4.
Raycraft, Justin. 2021. Islamic discourses of environmental change on the Swahili coast of southern Tanzania. Human Organization 80(1):49-60.
Raycraft, Justin. 2020. Seeing from below: Scuba diving and the regressive cyborg. Anthropology and Humanism 45(2):301-321.
Raycraft, Justin. 2020. The (un)making of marine park subjects: Environmentality and everyday resistance in a coastal Tanzanian village. World Development 126(1):1-12.
Raycraft, Justin. 2019a. "In search of a good life": Perspectives on village out-migration in a Tanzanian marine park. Journal of Rural Studies 70(1):36-48.
Raycraft, Justin. 2019b. Conserving poverty: Destructive fishing gear use in a Tanzanian marine protected area. Conservation and Society 17(3):297-309.
Kamat, Vinay, Phillipe Le Billon, Rose Mwaipopo, Justin Raycraft. 2019. Natural gas extraction and community development in Tanzania: Documenting gaps between rhetoric and reality. The Extractive Industries and Society 6(1):968-976.
Raycraft, Justin. 2019c. From attention to distraction to attention: Considering an ADD Anthropology. PAN: Philosophy, Activism, and Nature 14(1):73-79.
Raycraft, Justin. 2019d. Circumscribing communities: Marine conservation and territorialization in southeastern Tanzania. Geoforum 100(1):128-143.
Raycraft, Justin. 2018a. Dilemmas of representation in contemporary environmental anthropology: Documenting dynamite fishing in southeastern Tanzania. Ethnobiology Letters 9(2): 289-298.
Raycraft, Justin. 2018b. Marine protected areas and spatial fetishism: A viewpoint on destructive fishing in coastal Tanzania. Marine Pollution Bulletin 133(1):478-480.
Research Interests
Human dimensions of conservation; political ecology; environmental anthropology; collaborative and participatory research; human-wildlife coexistence; protected areas; community-based conservation; environmental governance; social institutions; pastoralism; social-ecological systems; rangeland management; fisheries; scuba diving; extractive industries; invasive species; climate change; renewable energy transitions; science and technology; African studies; Tanzania