Edge Effects, One Million Views Later
Past and present managing editors of Edge Effects reflect on the magazine’s history and celebrate how far it has come since launching in 2014.
Category: Interviews
Counting Cranes
On the heels of the spring crane migration northward and the Annual Midwest Crane Count, Paul Robbins shares why these birds are such an important part of conservation history in Wisconsin and the U.S.
Why Are Anti-Vaxxers Obsessed With the “Natural”?
In this written correspondence, emery jenson talks to Dr. Traci Brynne Voyles about how ableist and racist thinking along with a narrow conception of “environmentalism” have propped up the anti-vaccination movement.
Gentrification is Coming for the Internet
Big Tech is gentrifying not only urban spaces but digital ones, too. Communications professor Jessa Lingel explains how.
Framing Asian Suffering in an Anti-Black World: A Conversation with Claire Jean Kim
Political science scholar Claire Jean Kim outlines how COVID-19 came to be racialized and discusses the implications of foregrounding anti-Asian harassment and violence in an anti-Black society.
Surviving the Pandemic in Prison
Prisoner and abolitionist Lawrence Jenkins describes the struggles of being incarcerated during COVID-19 and the heightened risk, fear, and racial violence of life on the inside.
At the Mouth of the Menominee River: A Conversation with Anahkwet (Guy Reiter)
Anahkwet (Guy Reiter) discusses how Menominee language, culture, and history shape his work protecting the Menominee and Wolf Rivers.
Rewilding the Human Biome: A Conversation with Jamie Lorimer
From the scale of a landscape to the scale of a human body, Jamie Lorimer sees a “probiotic turn” underway that uses life to manage life.
Mapping the Planetary: Five Questions for Dipesh Chakrabarty
Historian and postcolonial studies scholar Dipesh Chakrabarty discusses the relationships between humans and the planets we imagine, construct, and inhabit.
No, Bats Aren’t Scary: Five Questions for Tessa Collins
This Halloween, consider the wild lives of bats today, adapting to a changing climate and facing a deadly (and spreading) fungus.
