Kelp Can Help Build More Just Futures
Lydia Lapporte traces how the project of kelp recovery in the Pacific Ocean connects to the mission of decarceration. Relational companionship and abolition ecologies can be useful for both kelp and incarcerated people …
Who Gets to Be Alive? On Rivers and People
In reviewing Robert Macfarlane’s forthcoming book IS A RIVER ALIVE?, Anna Christensen Spydell connects the colonial mistreatment and dehumanization of Indigenous and immigrant “Others” to the pollution and objectification of rivers around the world …
Swampy Relations & Imperfect Restoration
There’s a sinking swamp in the middle of Manhattan that has kept a host of species safe for millennia. Nat Xu uses the space and their work in it to reflect on Indigenous stewardship, more-than-human precarity, and restorative conservation as an imperfect practice …
Unearthing Buried History with REMOTE VIEWING & Land Art
Katherine Gregory explores how Cauleen Smith’s short film REMOTE VIEWING (2011) excavates buried histories of racial violence and challenges audiences to rethink who has the right to shape the land …
Podcasting for the Climate: A Conversation with Nathaniel Otjen, Juan Manuel Rubio, & Bethany Wiggin
Bethany Wiggin speaks with Nathaniel Otjen and Juan Rubio on the significance of public-facing environmental humanities via their podcast MINING FOR THE CLIMATE. They discuss the local experiences of lithium mining, the value of narrative, community-driven work in an academic setting, and the futures they envision for the university as a whole …
When Humans Burrow
Using the case of Claremont Road, Savannah Pearson speculates why tunneling activism is a popular form of protest in England historically used to fit against government harm to environmental and human systems …
THE RETURN OF NAVAJO BOY, 25 Years Later: A Conversation with Jeff Spitz
CHE Director Will Brockliss sits down with documentary filmmaker Jeff Spitz to reflect on the twenty fifth anniversary of his film THE RETURN OF NAVAJO BOY. Their conversation spans partnering with the Navajo Nation, ethical filmmaking, and the significance this film had not only on uranium cleanup in Monument Valley, Utah, but on one family who lives there …
Faculty Favorites: Environmental Activism in Art & Fiction
Edge Effects asks scholars to recommend creative works that explore aesthetic resistance to environmental precarity, or celebrate cultural traditions uplifting alternative ecological narratives and knowledge centered in care, kinship, and storytelling …
Dissent, Disruption, and Youth Climate Activism at COP28
What actually happens at the United Nations Conference of Parties (COPs)? Cody Skahan gives an insider view and wonders how youth environmental activism can persist amidst crackdowns on protest and the ever-present allure of political power …
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 …
Crip Intimacy and Aquifer Entanglements: a Conversation with Sunaura Taylor
Kate Phelps speaks with Sunaura Taylor on her book Disabled Ecologies. They discuss the contamination of the Tucson aquifer as an origin for understanding the mutual injury of humans and the environment …
Seance, Queer Climate Activism, and the Radical Faeries
Could seance be more than just a party trick? Sam Bean, Alison Schultz, Carmen Warner, and Barbara Leckie unpack its overlooked political history, including how the queer group Radical Faeries used seances to articulate an egalitarian, environmentally-connected identity …
