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.
Tagged: Environmental Justice
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.
Translation, Rage, and What Is-Was-Willbe: A Conversation with Khairani Barokka
Jagravi Dave speaks with Khairani Barokka on her poetry collection amuk. They use the book to connect tenselessness, the violence of colonial translation, and rage across personal, political, and environmental scales.
Mourning Waste in the Anthropocene
Sophie Chao traces how Marind People of West Papua suffer the effects of monoculture toxicity while also mourning for the waste it produces.
Navigating Eco-Grief with Ancestral Grieving Practices
Eco-grief can feel isolating, but Guevara Han and Rae Jing Han draw on Filipino and Chinese ancestral practices to develop collective grieving practices.
Something in the Water: A Podcast on PFAS in Wisconsin
The Public Trust podcast, co-produced by Bonnie Willison and Richelle Wilson, investigates PFAS contamination in Wisconsin.
Eight Environmental Podcasts to Follow in 2024
Running out of podcasts? Fret not. Edge Effects editors have a list of environmental podcasts that they think you should listen to. This list encompasses a wide range of topics related to environmental and social change, including climate activism, corporate greenwashing, mining conflicts, and more.
Fish Farming in the Digital Cloud
Patrick Brodie investigates the complex political ecology of energy, data, and fish in Ireland’s peat bog aquaculture.
From Trash Trade to Waste Colonialism: A Conversation with Simone Müller
Paul Sutter interviews Simone Müller about the famous case of the Khian Sea, a “renegade ship” carrying waste and trying to dock in different countries. The ship reveals the many contradictions within environmental movements and policies.
