Category: Essays
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Sticks, Stones, and Nested Agency in Wildlife Photography
in EssaysRae Ferner Rose uses wildlife photography as a lens into nonhuman agency. Snapshots of bowerbirds and pufferfish nests in particular capture the collaborative craft of both “wildlife” and photographer.
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¿Por qué Edge Effects?
Entonces… ¿por qué elegimos “Edge Effects” (Efectos de Borde) como nombre para la Revista oficial del CHE?
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Does “Leave No Trace” Miss the Forest for the Trees?
in EssaysAs global environmental issues have evolved, the principles guiding ethical outdoor recreation have not. Tomasz Falkowski urges us to rethink the traces we leave.
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Conserving Pangolins from a Distance
in EssaysTrang Đặng develops an ethics of care for pangolins, despite living a world away. Her “respectful distance” is a form of companionship rooted in humility, one that acknowledges interdependence without claiming possession and embraces intimacy without proximity.
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Navegando el Eco-Duelo con Prácticas Ancestrales del Duelo
in EssaysEl eco-duelo puede sentirse aislante, pero Christina Guevara y Rae Jing Han se inspiran en prácticas ancestrales filipinas y chinas para desarrollar formas colectivas de duelo.
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Vegetal Diaspora and the Restless Life of Plants
in EssaysWhile following the wandering of nalca across continents, Jens Benöhr mediates on migration, belonging, and the porous borders between human and plant life in our restless, planetary garden.
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The Queer Ecologies of the Tambass Wetlands
in EssaysRichard Watts, Maureen Ryan, and Danny Hoffman wade through the queer ecology and relations that characterize the Tambass wetlands, shaped as they are by precarity, impermanence, and survivance.
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Parrots at Play in the Arab Soundscape
in EssaysJoseph Leidy deciphers the cacophany of parrot voices on Arab social media, from faithful recitations of the Quran to playful banter. The parrots speak to autonomy and play in multispecies companionships.
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Ceguera Vegetal y ‘Viendo’ las Escalas Temporales de las Plantas
in EssaysKatherine Cheung examina el concepto de ceguera hacia las plantas y las formas en que los seres humanos pueden comprender sus escalas temporales diferenciadas, sintonizándose finalmente con los ritmos vegetales.
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Role-Playing Queer Assemblages Amidst Capitalist Ruins
in EssaysNat Mesnard’s new game, Assemblage, allows players to build and role-play an imaginary multispecies universe. Even more interesting than the creatures themselves: the stunning meditation they elicit on extinction, grief, and collaborative, queer survival in the Anthropocene.