As Time Magazine wrote in late 2021, labor unions are “having a moment.” Precarious conditions that have long been the norm have become both more prominent and more severe.
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
Author: Shelby Brewster
Dr. Shelby Brewster (she/her) is a former content editor for EHN. She is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Michigan State University, where she is Associate Editor of the Public Philosophy Journal. Shelby received her PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Pittsburgh in 2021. Her scholarly interests include environmental humanities, theories of (post)humanism, and editorial theory and practice. Shelby's work has been published in Performance Research, Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, and Theatre Journal, in addition to several online venues.
“Grieving Well”: on Mourning, Extinction, and White Privilege
Since I began working on my dissertation project on the multiple ways the relationship between humans and nature is understood and enacted under climate change, one of the most important shifts in my thinking has been to see extinction not only as a scientific concept, but a social, cultural, and political phenomenon.
“You Are Here:” Deep Time at the Smithsonian
Looking back, my fascination with museums has clearly played out in my doctoral research on emerging relationships between humans and nonhumans under ecological emergency. Unsurprisingly, the natural history museum is one of the most fraught sites in which these relationships have historically been constructed.