Category: Essays
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El Contrato Químico
in EssaysMicaela Edelson revela los costos para la salud—a menudo ocultos—que conlleva la exposición a pesticidas para los trabajadores agrícolas migrantes en Estados Unidos.
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Learning from Japanese Knotweed in Brussels’s Feral Wetlands
in EssaysIn the abandoned, deindustrialized interstices of Brussels, feral wetlands flourish. Drawing on conversations with residents, Louise Bazelaire explores the history and politics of these liminal spaces through a plant that is loved and hated in equal measure: Japanese knotweed.
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The Tenth Century Equivalent of 🍑 🍆? 🥬.
in EssaysWhen Tiffany VanWinkoop looked through letters between Constantine VII and his friend, she was surprised to read erotic requests for and descriptions of lettuce. Might lettuce be a tenth century equivalent of the contemporary eggplant and peach emoji?
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Fronds of Knowledge and Decolonial Fern Relations in the Sikkim Himalayas
in EssaysViews of ferns are as abundant as the plants themselves. Drawing on Indigenous knowledge and a lifetime of close attention, Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia shows how ferns act as decolonial agents—and how they have long been shaped by the landscapes of empire.
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Bad Bunny’s Botanical, Eco-Rasquache Aesthetic
in EssaysFrom sugarcane plantations to broken electricity poles, Bad Bunny presents and protests the historical and lived realities of Puerto Rico. Isaac Salazar argues that his aesthetic is a form of eco-rasquache and a celebration of collective survival under precarity.
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Mangroves and the (Un)Making of Imperial Borders
in EssaysColonial and imperial powers have long sought to bring order to unruly, wetland ecosystems. Iliana Capozzoli follows this trend globally—and how mangroves fight back.
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Caring for Toxic Tobacco Cultivation Across Caribbean and Andean Colombia
in EssaysIn 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.
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La emergencia climática a través imaginarios multidimensional de Flatland
in EssaysLa 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.
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Tuberous Entanglements and the Potato Empire
in EssaysTatsiana 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.
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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.