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By Ned Randolph, author of Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta: A Call for Reclamation
I grew up in the shadow of the Mississippi River, whose mythology pressed upon my imagination.
Its culture inspired iconic works and pol...
Deep below the ground in Tucson, Arizona, lies an aquifer forever altered by the detritus of a postwar Superfund site. Disabled Ecologies tells the story of this contamination and its ripple effects through the largely Mexican American community living above. Drawing on her own complex...
Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta uses the story of mud to answer a deceptively simple question: How can a place uniquely vulnerable to sea level rise be one of the nation’s most promiscuous producers and consumers of fossil fuels? Organized around New Orleans and South Lou...
By Phaedra C. Pezzullo, author of Beyond Straw Men: Plastic Pollution and Networked Cultures of Care
This month, international leaders and representatives are gathering in Nairobi, Kenya, to finalize a Global Plastics Treaty, which aims to establish an international agreement on how to...
By Nicole Fabricant, author of Fighting to Breath: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore
My work as an activist anthropologist has evolved out of a desire to combine my commitment to scholarship with creating mutual aid, support systems, and resources for poor peo...
By Sebastián Ureta & Patricio Flores, co-authors of Worlds of Gray and Green: Mineral Extraction as Ecological Practice
“We are walking, talking minerals” —V. I. Vernadsky[1]
Mineral extraction has a bad reputation nowadays. Decades of relentless extraction of minerals throughou...