About

Ph.D. Anthropology & Environmental Policy, University of Maine, Orono
M.S. Human Geography, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
B.A. Visual Journalism, Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara

Dr. Jamie Haverkamp (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Bates College. She is also an Affiliate with the Institute of Behavioral Science at CU Boulder for 2024-2025. Broadly, her research seeks to better understand the ethical and political dimensions of climate resilient development and adaptation planning (in various project forms). Haverkamp’s research agenda centers a care-based participatory praxis to working with and for frontline climate justice communities and engages with a variety of critical theories and anticolonial approaches including environmental/climate justice, racial capitalism, political ecology, de/coloniality and Indigenous studies to better understand the process of adaptation to climate change and climate justice. Her current research program is grounded primarily within Latinx and Indigenous contexts and includes: (1) long-standing ethnographic and participatory research with agropastoralists of the Peruvian Andes who are adapting to rapid glacier melt; (2) ethnographic engagement within the UNFCCC process, specifically with the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP); and (3) new research on care-based climate adaptation among Latinx farmworkers in the U.S. Haverkamp’s regional expertise are in Latin America and the U.S; and she has disciplinary training in anthropology, human geography, and visual journalism.

Haverkamp is on academic leave for the 2024-2025 academic year for supported work towards the completion of an ethnographic manuscript centering research the illuminates how the coloniality of power works through climate resilient development and advances Indigenous and agrarian teachings for adaptation otherwise. 

Research interests (tags):
Climate Adaptation, Environmental/Climate Justice, Political Ecology, Post-/De-coloniality, Feminist Geographies, Latinx & Indigenous Studies, Environmental Anthropology, Decolonial methodologies

Select Publications:
Haverkamp, J. (2024). Chapter The De/Coloniality of Global Climate Governance and Indigenous Politics within the UNFCCC.

Hite, E., Haverkamp, J., & Joshi, C. (2024). Collaborative event ethnography of the UNFCCC Process: power and (in) justice in global climate governance arenas. Climate and Development, 1-7.

Ranco, D., & Haverkamp, J. (2022). Storying indigenous (life) worlds: An introduction. Genealogy, 6(2), 25.

Haverkamp, J. (2021). Collaborative survival and the politics of livability: Towards adaptation otherwise. World Development, 137, 105152.

Haverkamp, J. (2021). Where’s the love?: Recentring Indigenous and feminist ethics of care for engaged climate research. Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement, 14(2), 1-15.

Teaching
ENVR341 Political Ecology of Climate Change
ENVR335 Indigenous Ecologies
ENV231 Climate (In)justice
ENVR219 Disasters and Displacement
ENVR417 Practicum in Community Engaged Research