Podcast – Lab Animals as Collaborators: Response-ability and Care in Research

By Lindsay Fisher; Abby Scatena; Julissa Valdez https://soundcloud.com/afternatures/lab-animals-as-collaborators?si=c2e918f024e1456ebfbece13b70e6ed1&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing 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 explore the nuances and opportunities to balance research outcomes with more thoughtful relationships between people and lab animals. Key References: Franco,... Continue Reading →

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Podcast – Seeing What the Law Canโ€™t: Rights of Nature and the Anthropo-Not-Seen

https://soundcloud.com/afternatures/rights-of-nature?in=afternatures/sets/conservation-ethics-podcast&si=a5be886b4c494dd5a45b400ff9c72973&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing This podcast explores the growing global movement for Rights of Nature through the lens of conservation ethics and Indigenous world-making. Drawing on Marisol de la Cadenaโ€™s concept of the โ€œanthropo-not-seen,โ€ we examine whether granting legal rights to nature can create visibility for Indigenous ontologies, or if it risks reinforcing the very systems that have... Continue Reading →

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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 →

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Ethics of Mollusk Conservation in the Chesapeake Bay

By: Autumn Roverse, Christian Roney, Emily Mon, Miriam Hughes (2026). Arriving to Guiding Questions Several Algonquian-speaking tribes native to the Chesapeake Bay region, including the Powhatan, Kiskiak, and Nansemond Nations, have harvested oysters and other shellfish from the Bay for thousands of years (Cuker & MacCormick, 2020). The native eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) in particular,... Continue Reading →

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Parks, Co-Management and the #LandBack Movement

Introduction In 2022, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes regained management of the National Bison Range in Montana, a landscape they had taken care of for generations before being removed from it in the early 1900s. Since taking back control, the Tribes have restored grasslands through controlled burns, removed invasive species, and supported the return... Continue Reading →

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Maunakea: Lost in Translation

A rainbow sprouting below Maunakea. The peak is so high clouds roll by at a lower altitude. Introduction Maunakea rises from the seafloor to 13,803 feet on Hawaiสปi Island, making it the tallest mountain in the world measured from base to peak. Its elevation, dry atmosphere, and distance from light pollution make it one of... Continue Reading →

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