Julian Gantt
Program Manager
Julian Gantt is the program manager for the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. His research interests include the political ecology of coastal forests in the Pacific Northwest and Islamic property relations in the South Caucasus. Previously, he worked as a union organizer, engaging workers in New York and Seattle in their fight to win union elections and bargain contracts. He cofounded a community organization in Seattle to stand in solidarity with asylum seekers, and he currently serves as managing editor at American Anthropologist.
Participating Years
2025–2026
Mobility: Transit and Transformation
Crises of mobility have become a key integer of social struggle in the world system. Whether one considers the explosion of different forms of movement or the production of immobility, in carcerality, wagelessness, enclosure, or via the securitization of borders, mobility and its discontents are central to radical activism across local and transnational communities.
2024–2025
Anti-Capitalist Environmentalism
The existential problems of the planet are complex. Given capitalism’s obsessive growth primed by, for instance, land-grabbing, extractivism, social and economic hierarchies, and war, capitalist environmentalism leans heavily on tweaking armageddon to maintain its hold on futurity for the planet.