Tag: Postcolonial Studies
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Living Deserts and Colonial Afterlives: A Conversation with Jill Jarvis
in PodcastsAngeline Peterson interviews Jill Jarvis on her forthcoming book project Signs in the Desert through her journey into studying the Sahara. Discussing a variety of sources, they challenge the view of deserts as empty spaces and highlight the Saraha as a vibrant, interconnected ecosystem suffering the aftermath of colonial violence.
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Composting’s Colonial Roots and Microbial Offshoots
in EssaysCurrent methods of composting came out of colonial plantation agriculture, but have become a key way of practicing polyculture and imagining multispecies communities.
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Behind the Beauty of Orchids, Centuries of Violence
in EssaysFollowing orchids in The Farming of Bones, a novel by Edwidge Danticat, exposes tangled webs of care, violence, and the lasting power of the colonial imagination.
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Inheriting the Hill Station
in EssaysIn the former colonial hill station of Darjeeling, claims of belonging reveal the paradoxes of living in a place built for someone else.