Teaching (and Doing) Climate Change Activism
By Bradley B. Walters, Mount Allison University, Canada § I teach at a relatively small, primarily undergraduate liberal arts and sciences university in Atlantic Canada. Bucking academic trends...
View ArticleThe Limpkin: A Poem and Short Essay
By Zachary Caple, University of California, Santa Cruz § The Limpkin Lover of the trashiest shorelines, the limpkin is an ibis made plainer, browner. Flecked white collar and long proboscis, it makes a...
View ArticleNatural Infrastructures: Sediment, Science, and the Future of Southeast...
By Monica Patrice Barra, The Graduate Center, City University of New York § Losing a Football Field an Hour Losing land at an average rate of approximately a football field an hour, Louisiana is...
View ArticleTactics of Power and Empowerment in Knowledge-Making Infrastructures
By Kirk Jalbert, Manager of Community Based Research & Engagement, FracTracker Alliance and Visiting Research Professor, Center for Science, Technology and Society, Drexel University § Energy...
View ArticleOn Rust
By Stephanie McCallum, University of California, Santa Cruz § Recent scholarship in anthropology has addressed infrastructure not in its fully functioning capabilities, but as it falls apart (e.g. Chu...
View ArticleAn “Ecological Path” in Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park: On the Reflexivity of...
By Peter Taber, University of Arizona § Yasuní National Park is Ecuador’s largest Amazonian protected area, one of the most biodiverse places in the world, and the site of multiple waves of oil...
View ArticleConcrete and Livability in Occupied Palestine
By Kali Rubaii, University of California, Santa Cruz § Portland Cement extracts the enduring time of rocks and mobilizes it to build quickly. Through heat, rock[1] is bound with metals and synthetic...
View ArticleCommentary: Toxic Bodies, Part II
By Kristina Lyons, University of California, Santa Cruz § The president of the communal action committee whom I call Doña Marta ushered me to a more secluded corner behind the schoolhouse. She spoke in...
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Phantoms within and beyond the Frame: Stirrings of Justice amidst Specters of...
By Rebecca Witter and Dana E. Powell [1] § Structural racism combines with the toxic wastes from industrialized capitalism to haunt the rural lowland landscapes of eastern North Carolina. This...
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The Water of Our Gods: How Protecting a Psychedelic Cactus and Local Water...
By Salvador Contreras § Havaiko’s safe return to his family was a stroke of luck. In a village nestled in the Wixárika Sierra of Western Mexico, Havaiko and I sat outside a small store while his...
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