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.
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?
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?
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.
Podcast – Seeing What the Law Canโt: Rights of Nature and the Anthropo-Not-Seen
Drawing on Marisol de la Cadenaโs concept of the โanthropo-not-seen,โ we discuss whether granting legal rights to nature can create visibility for Indigenous ontologies, or if it risks reinforcing the very systems that have historically erased them.
Podcast – The Politics of Life: How Valuation of Species Impacts Conservation
How and why people choose which species to value in conservation?
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
herringโhuman companionship invites us toย rethink rural settler Virginiaย by considering more-than-human bodily intimacies
The promise of interspecies desegregation: Allying with capybaras against gated communities in Buenos Airesโ wetlands
Link to article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/26349825241255688
Libro: CTS en Amรฉrica Latina. Nuevas generaciones
Libro Selecciรณn 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 polรญtica animal en los estudios CTS
Capรญtulo 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/
Podcast – Plants Are People Too: Debating the Ethics of Anthropomorphism in Conservationย
How does anthropocentrism shape scientific relationships with plants and animals?
Conservation Ethics Syllabus Fall 2025
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