Reading Time: 5 minutesGoing 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.
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
Tag: landscape
Desertion & The Supernatural in the Desert
Reading Time: 5 minutesSurrounded by a highly biodiverse desert ecosystem, the Rio Grande River creates a desert oasis. Yet the land around it is dry and vast, nationally contested and controlled, and scattered with ruins that span centuries and tell stories of the past.
“East Meets West” in a Wardian Case
Reading Time: 7 minutesI am walking in a Wardian Case. Above the historic West India docks, above the newly opened Elizabeth line, yet dwarfed by the skyscrapers that crowd the dockland horizon of east London.
Sensing Landscape: From Ethnographic Walks to Heritage Making in Kodagu
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe 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.
Asylums and the Question of Place: The Ghosts of Failed Health Initiatives
Reading Time: 8 minutesWhen an initiative fails, I like to think about what it got right, what it got wrong, and what parts can be modified and improved.
Like A Grain Of Sand
Reading Time: 6 minutesDoing research on dunes is like being a grain of sand in a very wide beach; there are so many factors to consider and so many ways of looking at them.
