Urban agriculture sounds promising, especially given how energy-intensive vegetable production in greenhouses has become, from the Netherlands to Spain. But can it be that simple?
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From Firstborns to Equal Shares: Inheritance, Land, and Ecology in Revolutionary France
Inheritance can have far-reaching consequences that extend beyond the family unit, shaping not only society and economy but also the environment.
Dirty Knowings: What Afro-Texan Women Tell Us About Archiving
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.
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.
When Animals Attack
To flesh out the labor between humans and animals, I sometimes find myself struggling to write between the “real” and “representational” interactions I experience on farms and see on paper in the archive.