Few words make people cringe quite like “moist,” yet moisture may hold one of the keys to addressing climate change.
How the world’s ‘Worst Word Ever: moist’ could be saving the planet
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.
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.
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 Can’t: Rights of Nature and the Anthropo-Not-Seen
Drawing on Marisol de la Cadena’s concept of the “anthropo-not-seen,” 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.