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.
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Translation, Rage, and What Is-Was-Willbe: A Conversation with Khairani Barokka
Jagravi Dave speaks with Khairani Barokka on her poetry collection amuk. They use the book to connect tenselessness, the violence of colonial translation, and rage across personal, political, and environmental scales.
Resisting and Reimagining Agricultural Systems in Hawai’i: A Conversation with Andrea Brower
Cathleen McCluskey speaks with Andrea Brower on the intersections of colonialism, neoliberalism, and plantations in agricultural systems—from Hawai’i and beyond. How might possibilities of a better future be imagined through political and social resistance?
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.
Reforesting Pikirangi, Reckoning with Colonial Histories in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Sadie Rittman explores the history and significance of Pikirangi—a reforestation project—in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Trilliums as Kin in Victorian Archives
Ellie Kincaid turns to plants as kin through reflections on Victorian herbariums, coming across springtime trilliums, and their own journey of moving to Wisconsin.
Rethinking Rural Resilience in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom
In July 2023, historic floods swept through the state of Vermont. Erin O’Farrell examines the rhetorics of resiliency that emerged after this disaster, arguing for a reconceptualization of the Vermonter identity and resilience itself.
Plant Blindness and “Seeing” Vegetal Timescales
Katherine Cheung examines the concept of plant blindness and the ways in which humans can understand the differing timescales of plants—ultimately attuning themselves to vegetal rhythms.
Archives, Aldo Leopold, and an Age of Fire
Dylan Couch traces the complex connections between Aldo Leopold’s conservation land ethic, worsening wildfire risk, and archival precarity that threatens not only living and physical things, but collective memory.
