Tagged: Europe

A black and white photo. Two adult women and one young women, all of which wear scarves around their heads, white shirts, and skirts sit on a porch, two of them holding potatoes. Three young boys stand around them, wearing tunics with a rope around them and baggy pants. Everyone looks at the camera. The women's mouths are turned slightly up in a smile. The boys do not smile.

Tuberous Entanglements and the Potato Empire

Tatsiana 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.

people sitting in a lamp lit, run down room with patterned wallpaper and holes in the ceiling. A message on the wall reads "the seed has been planted"

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.

Portrait of white woman in a gown, a young African boy, and a parrot showing multispecies friendship.

The Boy and The Bird

Nancy J. Jacobs explores the thought-provoking, tragic relationship between enslaved Africans and the African grey parrot in eighteenth century European portraiture.