1928: Beaver People. Canada. https://www.nfb.ca/film/beaver_people/embed/player/ 1930: Beaver Family (16min). Canada. A short silent film portraying Grey Owl, the famous conservationist, and a family of beavers who would come when he called and take food from his hand without the slightest fear. The film is set in Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba. https://www.nfb.ca/film/beaver_family/embed/player/ 1942: Fur Country.... Continue Reading →
White Animals: Racializing Sheep and Beavers in Tierra del Fuego
Mara Dicenta (2021) White animals: racializing sheep and beavers in the Argentinian Tierra del Fuego, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2021.2015140 Download Article here:
Worlding the end
Mara Dicenta & Gonzalo Correa (2021) Worlding the end: A story of colonial and scientific anxieties over beavers' vitalities in the Castorcene, Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2021.1973290 This article examines a technoscientific project for eradicating theNorth American beaver in Tierra del Fuego (TDF), an austral region known as“The End of the World.”Introduced from Canada into TDF... Continue Reading →
Bio-Social Invasions in southern Patagonia
Archibald, J.L., Anderson, C.B., Dicenta, M. et al. The relevance of social imaginaries to understand and manage biological invasions in southern Patagonia. Biol Invasions 22, 3307-3323 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-020-02325-2 Here, we studied how terrestrial and freshwater vertebrate species assemblages in Tierra del Fuego (TDF) have been co-constructed between humans and nature. To analyze how socio-historical processes interact with biological invasions,... Continue Reading →
Hearing Indigenous Voices in Parks: Ethical Indigenous Representation
Stella Davis, Grace Dho, Anna Lowe, & Lindsey Monteith Indigenous Voices in Conservation 2022 Think about your favorite local state park. You probably associate it with beautiful landscapes, wildlife, and trails. But, how much do you know about the Indigenous history of that park or the land it’s on? Despite having extensive Indigenous connections, the... Continue Reading →
Protected: Colonial Dams on the River of Indigenous Knowledge
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An Opportunity for Growth: Botanic Gardens, Native Plants, and TEK
Evelyn Hall, Marley Fishburn, Laila Kennedy, Isabel Hawkes Park Signage (Kennedy 2022) Williamsburg Botanical Garden We visited Freedom Park's botanical garden this past Spring. While it was a wonderful experience with the flora and fauna that the end of winter brings, we had another purpose for our visit. This walk in the park was a... Continue Reading →
Protected: River People: How damage to the Rappahannock River’s Ecosystem has Impacted the Tribe that Bears Its Name
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Parks in Virginia – Explorations
Click here to check our interactive GIS map on Virginia's parks. Our class went to do some ethnographic explorations about Nature, Settler Colonialism, and Indigenous Voices in Conservation: York River State ParkFreedom ParkJamestown IslandCollege Landing more to come...
New Quarter Park
Julia, Adonis, Ezzie, and I (Annaliese) visited New Quarter Park on a Friday Afternoon in late March. New Quarter Park was far more vast and rich with history than we anticipated. We were eager to explore the park, especially long and winding "Queens Creek." The creek extends from New Quarter Park and serves as a... Continue Reading →
Freedom Park & The Williamsburg Botanical Garden
By Marley, Laila, Evelyn, Isabel
York River State Park- reflections on our visit
Anna Lowe, Grace Dho, Lindsey Monteith, and Stella Davis York River State Park is an area of immense beauty as well as a dense history. When we visited the park, there was lots of information both outdoors and within the Visitors Center about the flora and fauna of the park, yet in comparison, there was... Continue Reading →
Jamestown Island Park Visit
On a warm Friday afternoon, we drove all the way down Jamestown Road until we arrived at Jamestown Island. The water was glimmering in the sun, and the clouds were voluminous. Margaret and her dad are in a cloud appreciation society, so she stopped to take a photo of the clouds to pass along to... Continue Reading →
College Landing Visit
Carly, Brittany, Jordan College Landing Park is located just off South Henry Street in Williamsburg, VA. Upon arriving, one enters a parking lot facing a body of water (College Creek). There is a wooden bridge (pictured above) which allows visitors to get a better view of the riverbanks as well as the muddy waters below.... Continue Reading →
Reparation After Science, Nature, and Settler Colonialism 