Why Animal Studies Must Be Antiracist: A Conversation with Bénédicte Boisseron
A new book, Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question, moves beyond familiar comparisons between race and species by drawing on Black studies.
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Pollution Doesn’t Care About Borders: A Conversation with Elizabeth Hoover
An anthropologist uses community-based research methods to investigate environmental justice, reproductive health, and food sovereignty in Indigenous communities like the Akwesasne Mohawk in upstate New York.
How Extraction Fuels the Anthropocenes: A Conversation with Gabrielle Hecht
How do the minerals in your phone place you within global flows of extraction? Gabrielle Hecht discusses uranium mining in Gabon, sea rise in the Marshall Islands, and the geopolitics of an African Anthropocene.
Navigating Race on the Mississippi River: A Conversation with Eddy Harris
When you venture into the great unknown, you often have to rely on the generosity of strangers. Eddy Harris reflects on race and outdoor recreation, ecological conservation, and the elusive idea of America as he discusses his film, River to the Heart.
Animal Law for Social Justice: A Conversation with Pamela Hart and Megan Senatori
Protecting animals can mean protecting people, too. Two attorneys weigh in on the state of animal law and discuss their nonprofit organization that shelters pets of those escaping domestic abuse.
Our Waters, Our Selves: A Conversation with Astrida Neimanis
“We can’t contain water.” Feminist philosopher Astrida Neimanis discusses the environmental inequalities and queer rhythms of the elusive fluid.
Feeling Kinky about Environmentalism: A Conversation with Nicole Seymour
Mainstream environmental discourse often employs emotions like fear, guilt, and outrage. But what about irony, humor, and irreverence? What feelings and what people get left out of environmentalism when we have such a limited emotional range?
Tobacco’s World of Racial Capitalism: A Conversation with Nan Enstad
A historian planned a small study of cigarette culture. But she ended up uncovering a transnational network of seeds, plants, knowledge, and racist ideologies, and writing a book that transforms how we conceive of corporations and empire.
Creating the Climate Voter: A Conversation with Tia Nelson
Last week’s IPCC report sunk the spirits of many. But one veteran activist, with no time for despair, still believes in the power of citizens.
Urban Wilds and Modern Mythology: A Conversation with Gavin Van Horn
With Aldo Leopold, Lao Tzu, and the trickster Coyote as his guides through the city, a writer explores how to live well with beavers, falcons, and the urban wilderness.
