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 →
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 →
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 →
Conservation Ethics Syllabus Fall 2025
ConsEthicsSyll Fall 2025Download
Losing Touch with Herring in the Rappahannock River
herring–human companionship invites us to rethink rural settler Virginia by considering more-than-human bodily intimacies
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.’
La política animal en los estudios CTS
Capítulo de libro (Dicenta 2024) Link: https://www.epn.edu.ec/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/libro-CTS_web.pdf
The False Promise of Trash Cans
F22 Environmental Anthropology Student Essays: Nhu-Lan Pho
STS from the Wounds
4S Panel 2021