Inviting disasters
One particularly warm morning in September 2020, I am looking at photographs and videos in the media depicting the aftermath of medicane (Mediterranean hurricane)…
Read MoreOne particularly warm morning in September 2020, I am looking at photographs and videos in the media depicting the aftermath of medicane (Mediterranean hurricane)…
Read MoreLieselotte Viaene (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) will talk about “Indigenous water ontologies, plurilegal encounters and interlegal translation: some reflections from the field”. Andrea Ballestero (Rice…
Read MoreDuring the Syrian war, which has now raged for a decade, the attention of scholars, media commentators and activists has primarily focused on human…
Read MoreNovember 2018. A wave of nearly 300,000 women and men in yellow vests floods France. A protest without leaders or spokespersons, rises from the…
Read MoreThe creative disentanglement of human-animal relationships in Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas by Radhika Govindrajan is an important addition to the…
Read MoreThis month, Chileans will decide whether to set in motion a process to change the country’s dictatorship-era constitution while marking a year since the…
Read MoreThe cover of Dana Powell’s book, Landscapes of Power, taken from a painting by Diné teacher and muralist James B. Joe titled Bleeding Sky,…
Read MoreIn her monograph Landscapes of Power, Powell takes the proposed – at the time of her initial fieldwork – development project of the coal…
Read MoreIn Landscapes of Power, Dana Powell maps a failure: the proposed Desert Rock power plant which never came into being beyond paper thin promises…
Read MoreThere is a growing consensus that India is going through a waste crisis, and this awareness unfolds parallel to an increasing awareness of the…
Read MoreFog catchers (atrapanieblas) are fairly simple constructions. They consist of large plastic or nylon nets stretched between two vertically positioned poles, perpendicular to the…
Read More“yeʔ kan plŋal!” “lawac!” “hɛy yeʔ leh!” “Don’t laugh!”, “It’s taboo!”, “We shouldn’t!” Naʔ Srimjam kept admonishing us one afternoon that she, her sister…
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