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Conservation Ethics Podcast
How the world’s ‘Worst Word Ever: moist’ could be saving the planet
Few words make people cringe quite like “moist,” yet moisture may hold one of the keys to addressing climate change.
Lobsters: An Analysis of Their Lives and Deaths, and How They Influence Us
Lobsters occupy an unusual position in modern food systems: they remain wild until capture, arrive alive before they are eaten, and increasingly provoke concern about animal suffering. How that proximity reshapes multispecies relationships with food?
Food Beyond Sustenance: What Ethnography Reveals About Identity, Migration and Inequality.
From street vendors in Ghana to immigrant restaurants in the United States and lunchboxes in Japan, food is much more than what we eat. This roundtable reviews ethnographic studies to explore how food shapes identities, livelihoods, migration, and inequality.
Ethics of Mollusk Conservation in the Chesapeake Bay
Oyster restoration in the Chesapeake Bay increasingly draws on Indigenous ecological histories and shell midden archaeology. But who has the right to access, interpret, and mobilize these knowledges?
Maunakea: Lost in Translation
Exploring Maunakea as a site of conflict over astronomy, conservation, Indigenous sovereignty, and translation, this project asks what happens when relationships to land must be made legible to outside institutions in order to be recognized.
Podcast – Lab Animals as Collaborators: Response-ability and Care in Research
Animal testing often evokes strong images and intense debate that draw binaries of pro or against. Through the concepts of Donna Haraway and case studies, we discuss the nuances and opportunities to balance research outcomes with more thoughtful relationships between people and lab animals.
Haunting as Anti-Method: Ecological Rage in the Wake of Organized Disappearance
In landscapes marked by genocide, state terror, and ecological transformation, ghosts do not simply represent what was lost but return to disrupt settled temporalities, animating struggles over justice, memory, and the ethics of killing. Tracing a personal and ethnographic encounter in Tierra del Fuego, this essay explores how rage, refusal, and haunting unsettle conservation logics... Continue Reading →
Losing Touch with Herring in the Rappahannock River
herring–human companionship invites us to rethink rural settler Virginia by considering more-than-human bodily intimacies
The promise of interspecies desegregation: Allying with capybaras against gated communities in Buenos Aires’ wetlands
Link to article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/26349825241255688
Libro: CTS en América Latina. Nuevas generaciones
Libro Selección de textos de la Escuela Doctoral 2019 y del Laboratorio de Papers 2020 y 2021, ESOCITE Link de descarga: https://www.epn.edu.ec/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/libro-CTS_web.pdf
La política animal en los estudios CTS
Capítulo de libro (Dicenta 2024) Link: https://www.epn.edu.ec/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/libro-CTS_web.pdf
Castorcene Films
Films, movies, and documentaries on beavers
White Animals: Racializing Sheep and Beavers in Tierra del Fuego
Link to article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17442222.2021.2015140
Worlding the end: A story of colonial and scientific anxieties over beavers’ vitalities in the Castorcene (2021)
Link to article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25729861.2021.1973290
Bio-Social Invasions in southern Patagonia
Link to article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10530-020-02325-2
The Abortion Green Tide as a Boundary Object (Somatosphere)
On Argentinian Feminist Reproductive Rights Movement - Somatosphere - Link: https://somatosphere.com/2019/the-abortion-green-scarf-as-a-boundary-object-beyond-the-curse-of-the-left.html/
Rethinking Ranger Programs with Maasai Women
Maasai women rangers are reshaping conservation while navigating evolving roles as professionals, caregivers, community members, and knowledge holders.
Local Ecological Knowledges for Herring Restoration
How can conservation institutions work with local ecological knowledge without extracting, compartmentalizing, or subordinating it to Western scientific frameworks?
Multispecies Politics in Yellowstone National Park
Through the case of bison management, this essay explores how conservation policies govern multispecies relations and reproduce tensions between ecological protection, Tribal sovereignty, and livestock interests.
Food Sovereignty in Madagascar
Through research on famine, foraging, rice cultivation, and cash-crop economies alongside a collaborative food-sharing activity, this essay examines tensions between biodiversity conservation, subsistence practices, and Malagasy post-colonial struggles for food sovereignty.
Parks, Co-Management and the #LandBack Movement
Across North America, co-management is often presented as a progressive model for conservation. But when decision-making authority remains unequal, is shared management meaningful change or the continuation of older colonial structures?