A Methodological Misunderstanding “The analysis is currently very descriptive and is not sufficiently robust.” I received this disappointing feedback after defending my PhD thesis to a panel of examiners in July 2024. I had spent […]
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Category: Field Notes
The Containable Quagmire? Colonial Environmental Legacies and Continued Attempts to Control Swamps
In August 1938, nearly 12,000 majority-white New Deal laborers employed by the federal government began clearing land, relocating communities, and erecting a forty-two-mile system of dams and dikes under the direction of the South Carolina Public Service Authority.
As Clear As Mud: Understanding Small-Scale Fishing in Late Medieval England Through the Landscape
Going on a research stay entailed long days in the archives, poring over medieval accounts written in hard-to-decipher script until my eyes were dry and my fingertips dirty with centuries-old dust.
What Goes (Un)told: The (Hi)stories of the Brazil Nut in the Biodiversity Heritage Library
In this short piece, I share my work through the example of Bertholletia excelsa, commonly known as the Brazil nut.
Writing Nature in the Active Voice
We inhabit an epoch of planetary unraveling marked by industrial capitalist processes that are undermining conditions of life at a global scale.
Sensing Landscape: From Ethnographic Walks to Heritage Making in Kodagu
The tactile power of the moist black mountain soil that has nourished the coffee estate for nearly a hundred and fifty years ran deep through the cold veins of my bare feet resting on the earth.