Tracing Landslides by Motorcycle
Riding the Western Ghats on motorcycle, Mohammed Labeeb reads the terrain with his body. His landslide research probes knowledge production, methodology, and proximity in a shifting terrain.
Tagged: Fieldwork
Squished Bugs and the Sticky Questions of Fieldwork
Our views of the multispecies world are smudged through windshield graveyards. Anissa Bejaoui peers through the stories squished bugs tell about the ethics of knowledge production and the praxis of conservation.
Carp as Villains and Victims
Teri Harman considers resilience, fishy companionship, and the culpability of “invasive” carp in Utah Lake. Are carp villains or victims?
Equine Companionship and the Multispecies Construction of Wilderness
Inspired by volunteering on equestrian trail crews in the Cascade Mountains, Kathleen Gekiere argues wilderness is a multispecies performance, embodied by the practices of horses and humans on the trail.
Psycho Drain Flies
A trip to the bathroom sends Henry Hughes on a journey to discover what critters are living in the urinals and what we might learn from them in this era of environmental precarity.
Studying Yellowstone’s Burn Scars to Reveal its Future
Nathan Kiel investigates the potential for post-fire forest recovery across the greater Yellowstone ecosystem in a warming world.
Managing the Rights of Nature for Te Awa Tupua
The settlement over the Whanganui River, Te Awa Tupua, in Aotearoa New Zealand has been hailed as a victory for the “rights of nature.” But context matters.
There’s More Than One World. There’s a Pluriverse.
A researcher reflects on the pluriverse and how the idea of multiple worlds and ways of knowing reoriented her approach to fieldwork.
Photographing Plutonium’s Invisible Legacy
In a series of photographs, a landscape designer and artist uncovers the invisible toxic legacies of nuclear technology in Hanford, WA.
Erratic Monuments to a Melting World
As glaciers melt, they leave behind abandoned rocks and other erratics. This photo essay of the Alaskan wilderness explores how glacial erratics are time travelers, treasure troves, reliquaries, and rubble.
