My name, Renée, means ‘re-born’. It bears a distinct irony considering the power of naming, re-naming, un-naming, and misnaming which are all constituted in a process of birthing or rebirthing.
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Das lateinamerikanische Umweltzentrum CEPIS in Lima: Entwicklungshilfe vom Globalen Süden für den Globalen Süden
Ehrlich gesagt, hatte ich vor Beginn meines Dissertationsprojekts noch nie etwas von CEPIS gehört.
The Way We Know Our Rivers: Reflecting on River Management in Ghana (Part I)
A colleague of mine was surprised when I informed him that I do not know any songs about rivers in Ghana. I could not recall any songs about rivers. It came as a shock to him.
“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.
Sensing Fog
An artificial fog regularly envelops the bridge connecting piers 15 and 17 in the San Francisco harbor. Fujiko Nakaya, an artist known for her many fog sculptures, installed Fog Bridge #72494 in 2013, when it was launched with the reopening of the Exploratorium science museum.
Long in the Tusk: Narwhals, Then and Now
As an undergraduate, I was fascinated by teeth. In organismal biology, teeth often tell the story: based on their shape, number, composition, and condition, we can infer how an animal amassed food, how it migrated, or how it diverged from similar creatures.