Tag: Ideas of Nature
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Faculty Favorites: Encountering the Ecological Weird
in ChecklistsWeird times call for weird recommendations. Faculty from across the disciplines share books, films, and songs that explore the ecological weird—from the uncanny and unsettling to the disorienting and unexpected.
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Detrás de la belleza de las orquídeas, siglos de violencia
in EssaysSiguiendo el rastro de las orquídeas en Cosecha de huesos, una novela de Edwidge Danticat, se revelan complejas tramas de cuidado, violencia y el poder perdurable de la imaginación colonial.
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The Worlding Work of Plants: A Conversation with Michael Marder
in PodcastsM. Hamilton and Ellie Kincaid talk plants with Michael Marder. Their conversation invites readers to consider plants as active participants in thought and world‑making
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Fronds of Knowledge and Decolonial Fern Relations in the Sikkim Himalayas
in EssaysViews of ferns are as abundant as the plants themselves. Drawing on Indigenous knowledge and a lifetime of close attention, Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia shows how ferns act as decolonial agents—and how they have long been shaped by the landscapes of empire.
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Winter’s Muted Garden
What does a garden become in winter? Émilie Gervais explores winter’s sensory and narrative landscape through a community garden’s fence.
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The Colonial Roots of Catholic Plants
in EssaysCatholic churches in the U.S. are decorated with a shared, recurring cycle of select plants. Rebecca Laurent and Emily Burke dig into the historical and political roots of poinsettias and Easter lilies and what their floral glory tells us about nature, religion, and colonialism.
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When Monster Snails Eat Wetlands
in EssaysThe Coca Cola-funded micro-wetland of the Green Water Nature Center was to be a straightforward, water purification project. And then came the apple snail. These small creatures, Qieyi Liu shows, complicated everything.
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The Weedy Possibilities of Mother Mesquite
in ExhibitsErin Charpentier and Travis Neel consider the place of weeds in our world in their living, collaborative art installation of honey mesquite trees, The Mesquite Mile.
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Vegetal Diaspora and the Restless Life of Plants
in EssaysWhile following the wandering of nalca across continents, Jens Benöhr mediates on migration, belonging, and the porous borders between human and plant life in our restless, planetary garden.
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The Queer Ecologies of the Tambass Wetlands
in EssaysRichard Watts, Maureen Ryan, and Danny Hoffman wade through the queer ecology and relations that characterize the Tambass wetlands, shaped as they are by precarity, impermanence, and survivance.