Mangroves and the (Un)Making of Imperial Borders
Colonial and imperial powers have long sought to bring order to unruly, wetland ecosystems. Iliana Capozzoli follows this trend globally—and how mangroves fight back.
Category: Essays
Caring for Toxic Tobacco Cultivation Across Caribbean and Andean Colombia
In the Caribbean and Andean regions of Colombia, women and children perform(ed) the necessary labor to sustain the rural communities at the heart of toxic production of tobacco. In tracing these histories of care and toxicity, Nicolás Felipe Rueda Rey and Margarita Martínez-Osorio ask what accountability looks like today.
La emergencia climática a través imaginarios multidimensional de Flatland
La novela decimonónica Flatland, de Edwin A. Abbott, suele describirse como una obra de ciencia ficción (o ficción matemática). Valeria Zambianchi sostiene que también puede leerse como ficción climática, en la medida en que muestra que las posibilidades para enfrentar la crisis climática ya están presentes en nuestro mundo.
Tuberous Entanglements and the Potato Empire
Tatsiana Shchurko follows potatoes through personal memories and uneven global histories. From the Andes to Belarus, she traces how the potato mediates imperial power while fueling peasant resistance and sustaining everyday life.
Cinco razões pelas quais o fracasso de Henry Ford no Brasil ainda importa hoje
Neste guia rápido sobre o impacto duradouro de Henry Ford na Amazônia, o diretor de Beyond Fordlândia compartilha histórias pouco conhecidas de violência, poluição e ativismo que descobriu durante as filmagens do novo documentário.
Wild, Queer Kinship
Andrea Natan Feltrin always felt they attuned to the rhythms of the natural world differently than others. Queer ecology provided a language for these intuitions.
Winter’s Muted Garden
What does a garden become in winter? Émilie Gervais explores winter’s sensory and narrative landscape through a community garden’s fence.
The Colonial Roots of Catholic Plants
Catholic churches in the U.S. are decorated with a shared, recurring cycle of select plants. Rebecca Laurent and Emily Burke dig into the historical and political roots of poinsettias and Easter lilies and what their floral glory tells us about nature, religion, and colonialism.
A Multispecies Approach to Learning from Invasive Plants
In the thick of Greenbelt National Park, students in Jordan Lea Johnson’s feminist environmental studies class learn from invasive plants. A multispecies pedagogy prompts reflection on ecological narratives of invasion and mastery.
Ramas, piedras y agencia anidada en la fotografía de la vida silvestre
Rae Ferner Rose propone leer estas fotografías de la vida silvestre como una vía para explorar la agencia no humana. Las instantáneas de los nidos de aves jardineras y de peces globo, en particular, capturan la artesanía colaborativa tanto de la “vida silvestre” como del fotógrafo.
