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Marie Widengård looks to critical border studies to understand how both extraction and conservation are at work in a contested area of Jamaica.
The post Saving the Forest to Secure the Mine in Jamaica’s Cockpit Country appeared first on Edge Effects.
Maria Tane reviews feminist geographer and glaciologist M Jackson's debut novel, which reveals a profound connection between melting ice and missing women.
The post Gender and Glacial Agency in The Ice Sings Back appeared first on Edge Effects.
A global coalition of authors articulate the environmental violence of megafires by focusing on the myriad experiences of multispecies grief in their wake.
The post Multispecies Grief in the Wake of Megafires appeared first on Edge Effects.
Writer, rancher, and farmer Bryce Andrews discusses his newest book Holding Fire, which traces his personal story of grappling with the history of guns and violence in the American West.
The post Reforging Gun Culture in the American West: A Conversation with Bryce Andrews appeared first on Edge Effects.
Orans are sacred lands in the Thar Desert that are are being developed for wind energy projects. Nisha Paliwal argues that while wind energy is considered sustainable, it is experienced as violent extractivism by nearby village communities.
The post The Problem with Wind Farming on Rajasthan’s Sacred Lands appeared first on Edge Effects.
Mollie Holmberg takes crip lessons from philosopher Val Plumwood's experience of being prey to a crocodile, pointing toward strategies for collective pandemic survival and resistance to environmental violence.
The post Pandemics, Predation, and Crip Worldings appeared first on Edge Effects.
Prison Agriculture Lab directors Carrie Chennault and Josh Sbicca discuss the ubiquity of carceral agriculture in the United States, its structuring logics of racial capitalism, and possibilities for abolitionist food futures.
The post Mapping the Unfree Labor of Prison Agriculture: A Conversation with Carrie Chennault and Josh Sbicca appeared first on Edge Effects.
Two elephants came to live in Miami Beach with resort guests in the 1920s, troubling the divides between humans and animals, work and play. Anna Vemer Andrzejewski examines the ambiguous role these elephants occupied in Florida's leisure landscape.
The post Work, Play, and Elephants in South Florida’s Leisure Landscape appeared first on Edge Effects.
Real estate developments emulating U.S.-style master-planned communities are popular in Buenos Aires. Mara Dicenta unpacks the violence such developments enact on the environment and the community, as well as the resurgence against them.
The post The Violence of Gated Communities in Buenos Aires’s Wetlands appeared first on Edge Effects.
Today's queer youth are more interested in farming than ever. Eliza Pessereau surveyed members of the Queer Farmer Listserv to understand their challenges and motivations for going "back to the land."
The post Young, Queer Farmers Are Here to Change U.S. Agriculture appeared first on Edge Effects.
Robrecht Declercq and Duncan Money, editors of the recent book Born With a Copper Spoon, explore the past and future relationship between mining technologies and the environment.
The post The Transformative and Hungry Technologies of Copper Mining appeared first on Edge Effects.
From adorable pets to exotic safaris, the Pokémon universe offers a sprawling jungle gym for players. Writer and gamer Nate Carlin gives a guided tour of what he calls the franchise's naive ecotopia.
The post Into the Not-So-Wild World of Pokémon appeared first on Edge Effects.
Nancy J. Jacobs explores the thought-provoking, tragic relationship between enslaved Africans and the African grey parrot in eighteenth century European portraiture.
The post The Boy and The Bird appeared first on Edge Effects.
Aboriginal burning regimes have become popular as a solution to prevent catastrophic wildfires in Australia. Mardi Reardon-Smith argues that Aboriginal peoples’ fire knowledge is not static and contemporary burning regimes result from colonial histories and the intercultural co-creation of environmental knowledges.
The post When Aboriginal Burning Practices Meet Colonial Legacies in Australia appeared first on Edge Effects.
How do certain temperatures come to be normalized and idealized in Hawai'i? Dr. Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart shares critical insights at the intersection of Indigenous dispossession and resistance.
The post The Cold Never Bothered Native Hawaiians Anyway: A Conversation with Hi’ilei Julia Hobart appeared first on Edge Effects.
Annie Proulx's 2022 book Fen, Bog, and Swamp is a melancholy love letter to wetland ecosystems. But missing from this lament, Nino McQuown argues, are hopeful histories of resistance.
The post Swamp Feelings appeared first on Edge Effects.
Edge Effects editors recommend readings and podcasts on violent environments in anticipation of our new themed series.
The post What Are Violent Environments? appeared first on Edge Effects.
Seven scholars from a variety of disciplines recommend readings about land, labor, animals, and people in the food system.
The post Faculty Favorites: Savor These Books on Food and Agriculture appeared first on Edge Effects.
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