Have Some Mental Health: The Black Summer Bushfires, COVID-19, and the Governance of Psychic Retreat

By Aaron Neiman, Stanford University § Introduction: Hard to Process The events of the recent past have felt […]

Call for Posts: The Event, the Horizon

Perhaps something has occurred in the history of the concept of structure that could be called an “event.” […]

The Knot of Ecological Time: An Outlet, an Election, and an Irrigation Office

By Maira Hayat, Stanford University § In 2015, local elections were held in Pakistan, ten years after the […]

Land, Life, and Water: Tending to the Landscape of Southern Louisiana

By Hannah Eisler Burnett, University of Chicago § This is a photo essay about the way people cultivate […]

“Ain’t No Future in Your Future”: Temporalities of Recovery and Resilience in Flint, Michigan

By Talia Gordon, University of Chicago § A future full of possibilities starts by drinking pure quality water […]

Remaking (Il)licit Landscapes: Layered Histories and Speculative Time in Peru’s War on Drugs

By Allison Kendra, Stanford University § Its leaves burst forth slowly from thin, shrubby branches. Every three months […]

Things That Are Not Alive, but Which May Be Alive in a Certain Way: An Interdisciplinary Essay on a Relational Theory of Life

By Meredith Root-Bernstein, AgroParisTech, INRA § This blog post is adapted from a paper given at “Anthropology Off […]

Grounds for Climate Change Mitigation in South Korea’s Tidal Mudflats

By Gebby Keny, Rice University § Blue Carbon “The trick is to step with your right foot before […]

Landscapes of Care: Affect and Emotion in the 16th Century Testimonies of the Congregation of Xaltocan

By John K. Millhauser, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State University § “todos los dichos Pueblesillos […]

Pollution Does Not “Go Away”: Mylar Balloons and Air Quality in California’s Pristine Wastelands

By Julia Sizek, University of California at Berkeley § Joshua Tree National Park regularly ranks as the National […]