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2024 Year in Review

2024 Year in Review

As we welcome in another new year, Edge Effects editors reflect on ten years of posting and recommend their favorite essays and podcasts from 2024 …
colorful game pieces laid out in piles on a tabletop

六款环境主题桌游

生态主题桌游架 游或是充满自然之美、富于艺术性，或是寓教于乐，引发对于气候变化、水污染、食物主权等议题的探讨。这里介绍并分析了六款环境主题桌游，希望可以引领你进入一个崭新的桌游世界。 …
Brown animals behind glass amidst green grass and blue sky.

Taxidermy as EcoGothic Horror: Five Questions for Christy Tidwell

Christy Tidwell traces the history of taxidermy, its connections to the Gothic horror genre in pop culture, and its spooky connotations …
a diver swims under the ocean with a school of small fish and yellow coral in the foreground, the sun filtering from above

Faculty Favorites: Environmental Care

Edge Effects invites scholars from different disciplines to introduce texts on care with the environment. These books also offer varied entries to multispecies and pluriversal topics in the classroom …
A black rhino stands alone in a grassland savannah

Conserving Biodiversity without Preserving Settler Ecologies

Charis Enns & Brock Bersaglio use Laikipia County, Kenya to trace connections between settler colonial power and conservation, offering an “other” way of maintaining biodiversity that prioritizes Indigenous Peoples and their endangered livestock species …
A decaying whale corpse lays on a sunlit beach, its mid-body and tail visibly deteriorating.

The Art of Decomposition in “Cetacean” and “Rendered Obsolete”

Ann Xiaoxu Pei explores the whale as a historical symbol of extractive capitalism through sensory remediation in Deke Weaver & Jennifer Allen’s performance Cetacean …
The medieval furrow field described by the author. A green grassy field under a blue sky with an old looking building in the background

Oxen Time, Multispecies Moments, and a Furrowed Field

In this entry to the Troubling Time special series, Caroline Abbott explores a medieval furrow near her home in Cambridge and finds its connections to time, memory, and multispecies entanglements …
gemma clucas on Georgia island collects poop with an albatross; Seabird Research on Climate Change Impacts and Conservation

Penguins, Puffins, and the Science of Seabird Scat

Erin Hassett speaks with Dr. Gemma Clucas, a researcher at Cornell University who analyzes the poop of penguins and other seabirds to reveal deteriorating ocean health and changing fish population ecology. Dr. Clucas and fellow researchers travel to remote locations to collect the poop from common terns, penguins, puffins, and other seabirds …
Ecologies of the digital at work: a fish farm in Donegal with buildings next to the bog to the right, tanks to the left, and mountains in the back.

Fish Farming in the Digital Cloud

Patrick Brodie investigates the complex political ecology of energy, data, and fish in Ireland’s peat bog aquaculture …
A brown deer with white spots stands in the middle of a forest clearing. There are green trees around the deer that are illuminated by sunlight.

Goats, Bees, and Poetry: A Conversation with Nickole Brown

Heather Swan speaks to author and poet Nickole Brown about her relationship with animals, the more-than-human world, and the Hellbender poetry conference …
White billboard with black text that reads "Birds Aren't Real".

Avian Drones Take Flight at the Expense of Real Birds

Amy Gaeta argues that drones designed to mimic birds raise the alarm not just about unwanted surveillance but the appropriation of more-than-human life …
A lone, scraggly tabby cat sits on an urban street, with rumpled fur and a clipped left ear.

What Community Cats Can Teach Us about Multispecies Care

Community cats lead diverse multispecies lives outside of human care, but they should still be valued. Kuhelika Ghosh explores how human stewards can engage in forms of “non-kin” care to help them thrive in their outdoor environments …