Reading Time: 10 minutesScholars of multispecies justice are increasingly turning toward plants, animals, fungi and complex other-than-human organisms as subjects of justice in our shared worlds.
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The Containable Quagmire? Colonial Environmental Legacies and Continued Attempts to Control Swamps
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn 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.
Green Space Versus the Police State: The Future of Weelaunee People’s Park
Reading Time: 7 minutesAtlanta—a twentieth-century hub for the Black middle class, a battleground over segregation, and now … the destination for brunch?
Building on Sand: The Forgotten Roots of Singaporean Land Reclamation from Colony to Postcolony
Reading Time: 7 minutes“What kind of world can be built from sterile and lifeless sand and land that has no roots, no history, and no memory, except for the violent extraction from its homeland?”
Defending Water Against a Mine: Hydrous Sociality, Environmental Struggles, and Popular Consultations in Colombia
Reading Time: 11 minutesOn Sunday, July 28th, 2013, denizens of Piedras, a town located in Central Colombia, went to the polls to participate in the consulta popular on the establishment of large-scale mining activities in this rice-producing town.