Sergio Jarillo de la Torre

“Winga Is Trying to Get in”: Local Observations of Climate Change in the Tiwi Islands

Jon Barnett, Teresa Konlechner, Elissa Waters, Michelle Woody Minnapinni, Sergio Jarillo, Brian Austral, James De Santis, Lesley Head, Clinton Rioli, Andrew King

Journal article  |  2023  |  Earth's Future

Climate change and migration from atolls? No evidence yet

C Mortreux, S Jarillo, J Barnett, E Waters

Journal article  |  2023  |  Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

People living on low-lying coral atolls are highly exposed to climate change and there is much discussion that climate change is a..

Climate change affects multiple dimensions of well-being through impacts, information and policy responses

W Neil Adger, Jon Barnett, Stacey Heath, Sergio Jarillo

Journal article  |  2022  |  NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR

The consequences of climate change and responses to climate change interact with multiple dimensions of human well-being in ways t..

Nature-based solutions for atoll habitability

Jon Barnett, Sergio Jarillo, Stephen E Swearer, Catherine E Lovelock, Andrew Pomeroy, Teresa Konlechner, Elissa Waters, Rebecca L Morris, Ryan Lowe

Journal article  |  2022  |  PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Atoll societies have adapted their environments and social systems for thousands of years, but the rapid pace of climate change ma..

Repositioning the (Is)land: Climate Change Adaptation and the Atoll Assemblage

S Jarillo, J Barnett

Journal article  |  2022  |  Antipode

Sinking atolls are an enduring symbol of the power of climate change to destroy inhabited places. Climate impact science and the m..

The Kula of the Gospels: Christianity, Magic, and Exchange in the Trobriand Islands

S Jarillo

Journal article  |  2022  |  Contemporary Pacific

Katupela guguya, or “exchange of sermons,” is a current practice in the Trobriand Islands in which whole villages visit close or d..

Contingent communality and community-based adaptation to climate change: Insights from a Pacific rural atoll

Sergio Jarillo, Jon Barnett

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Rural Studies

Research shows that community-based adaptation (CBA) can empower grassroots agents to determine their preferred responses to clima..

How Malinowski sailed the Midnight Sun: the academic conference as ethnographic performance

Sergio Jarillo

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE

Anthropology's scope is broader than its public, often limited to other anthropologists, while those who share their knowledge in ..

Where are our ancestors? Rethinking Trobriand cosmology

Sergio Jarillo, Allan Darrah, Carlos Crivelli, Camillus Mkwesipu, Kenneth Kalubaku, Nagia Toyagena, Gumwemwata Okwala, Justin Gumwemwata

Journal article  |  2020  |  HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

Reincarnation has been a fundamental tenet of anthropologists’ representations of Trobriand cosmology since Bronislaw Malinowski p..

Believing the unbelieved Reincarnation, cultural authority, and politics in the Trobriand Islands

Sergio Jarillo, Allan Darrah, Carlos Crivelli, Camillus Mkwesipu, Kenneth Kalubaku, Nagia Toyagena, Gumwemwata Okwala, Justin Gumwemwata

Journal article  |  2020  |  HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory