Podcast – Seeing What the Law Can’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 Cadena’s concept of the “anthropo-not-seen,” 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 →

12 Jan 2026 0

Podcast – Plants Are People Too: Debating the Ethics of Anthropomorphism in Conservation

A broad-canopied tree with fiery red and orange autumn leaves stands under a clear blue sky on a residential street, its fallen leaves covering the ground as nearby houses and leafless trees frame the scene.

How does anthropocentrism shape scientific relationships with plants and animals?

22 Dec 2025 0

Podcast – The Politics of Life: How Valuation of Species Impacts Conservation

A small flock of green parrots flies across a blue sky with scattered clouds, above the tops of tall palm trees.

How and why people choose which species to value in conservation?

11 Dec 2025 0

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 →

28 Aug 2025 0

From Tradition to Absence: Generational Connection Under Fishing Moratorium

By Micah Dill1 It is a cold February morning, and a man sits on the porch of his cabin near Cat Point Creek, a tributary of the Rappahannock River in Virginia. At this time of year, before the leaves return, he can see out over the water. He watches the water closely, looking for the... Continue Reading →

8 May 2025 0

Losing Touch with Herring in the Rappahannock River

Black fishermen hauling river herring at the end of nineteenth century

herring–human companionship invites us to rethink rural settler Virginia by considering more-than-human bodily intimacies

4 May 2025 0

Un/repairing Through More-than-human Care in Latin America: Conversatorio

https://aesengagement.wordpress.com/2024/08/29/un-repairing-through-more-than-human-care-in-latin-america-conversatorio/?page_id=4906 This piece brings scholars from and/or working in Latin America to share their thoughts on care, extinction, and more-than-human reciprocity. Considering the last decade of theories and practices of care in Latin America, the following examines care and its capacity to repair the ‘care crisis.’

29 Aug 2024 0