I love ethnographic scholarship which is deeply rooted in communities. This fabulous work of scholarship with the Batek indigenous community in Taman Negara in Malaysia is a window in to the othering processes that indigenous people navigate.

These works should be resources for social impact professionals beyond the reductive world of ESG metrics. Social licence to operate is more than a few performative interviews, it needs deeper insight into the life worlds of communities. But, who has the time as there is a project timeline to follow? FPIC should be more than a checklist in the era of carbon laundering and tech algorithms.