Much of what we consider to be early radical first wave feminist work does not go beyond written texts. Hoping to disrupt this trend, I contend, however, that there is a different, much dirtier text, being written upon by those women who would never be given access to paper and pen. They would write their legacies in the ground.
Category: EHN Blog
Delivering the Polar Product
Antarctica is a place that humans only visit. People head south for a season or a once-in-a-lifetime-tour voyage, but then they return home to other parts of the world.
Thoughts on Queen Sugar
Queen Sugar, the TV series based on Natalie Baszile’s 2014 novel of the same name, attempts to capture the issues contemporary Black farmers face in the United States.
Writing Home into Environmental History
Practices of domesticity and the spaces of homes must be included in our conversations of place and environment.
Territorios de rebelión en colombia
Este texto es el resultado de conectar los puntos entre mi investigación doctoral y eventos recientes ocurridos en Colombia, para evidenciar como la criminalización de campesinos y la presentación de sus actividades como si fueran el delito de “rebelión,” es parte de una larga historia de políticas anti-campesinado que buscan lograr la descampesinización de los territorios.
Territories of Rebellion in Colombia
This post is the result of connecting the dots between my own research and current events in Colombia, to evidence how the criminalisation of peasants, and the portrayal of their activities as a “rebellion”-type crime, is part of a long history of anti-peasant policies aimed to depeasantise territories.
Weeds, Corn, and Drinking Water: An Interconnected History of Industrialized Corn in the U.S. and West Germany
Cropscapes developed throughout the twentieth century as a result of rationalization, specialization, and mechanization of agriculture.