Tagged: Indigenous Peoples

The Carceral Ecology of Alligator Alcatraz

Aligator Alcatraz is both a continuation of the past and a harbinger of a dark future. Alexandra White explores the history of carceral ecology from plantations to this modern detention center and argues that in this era of climate collapse, land becomes a natural prison.

Photo collage of rice, fields, and cotton plants

Legados de las plantaciones

El Antropoceno da nombre al cambio ambiental provocado por la acción humana. El Plantacionoceno sitúa el colonialismo, el capitalismo y las jerarquías raciales persistentes en el centro de la conversación y se pregunta qué modos de resistencia, pasados y futuros, podrían surgir.

Many tree trunks covered in moss. Green vegetation is visible at the bottom of the image.

Plants By Any Other Name

What’s in a name? Knowledge, power, and history, Jens Benöhr, Constanza López, and Kara Lena Virik argue. The scientific names of plants root botanical knowledge in colonial relationships. To decolonize ecology, we must embrace the pluriverse of knowing, naming, and living with the world.

Acacia trees form a line at the edge of the Tambass wetland. Tufts of grass poke out of the water.

The Queer Ecologies of the Tambass Wetlands

Richard 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.