Faculty Favorites: Environmental Care
Edge Effects invites scholars from different disciplines to introduce texts on care with the environment. These books also offer varied entries to multispecies and pluriversal topics in the classroom.
Tagged: Indigenous Peoples
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.
Conserving Biodiversity without Preserving Settler Ecologies
Charis Enns & Brock Bersaglio use Laikipia County, Kenya to trace connections between settler colonial power and conservation, offering an “other” way of maintaining biodiversity that prioritizes Indigenous Peoples and their endangered livestock species.
How Indigenous Artist George Morrison Resists Ecological and Cultural Extraction
Indigenous modernist George Morrison’s works were once considered “not Indian enough” but were later curated as minoritized art. Matt Hooley explores how and why the radical meanings of Morrison’s art are obscured or misunderstood by cultural institutions.
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.
2023 Year in Review
Edge Effects editors look back on their favorite essays and podcast episodes published in 2023.
Imagining New Futures in West Papua’s Plantation Forestscape
Jessica Richardson reviews Sophie Chao’s book IN THE SHADOW OF THE PALMS, with a focus on indigenous groups’ nuanced feelings and relations with plantation lifeworlds as well as their radical openness toward the future.
Centering Islands in a Rising Ocean: A Conversation with Christina Gerhardt
Samm Newton interviews Dr. Christina Gerhardt about her 2023 book Sea Change, which is a collection of essays, a history of connection, and a window into island nations facing an uncertain future.
Saving the Forest to Secure the Mine in Jamaica’s Cockpit Country
Marie Widengård looks to critical border studies to understand how both extraction and conservation are at work in a contested area of Jamaica.
The Violence of Gated Communities in Buenos Aires’s Wetlands
Real estate developments emulating U.S.-style master-planned communities are popular in Buenos Aires. Mara Dicenta unpacks the violence such developments enact on the environment and the community, as well as the resurgence against them.
