Today on Edge Effects, poet Ann Fisher-Wirth collaborates with photographer Wilfried Raussert and a team of translators led by Sarli Mercado and @salianoche.bsky.social. This novel "gathering of voices" explores the interconnectedness of people and nature in urban environments. 🎨 📷

Today on Edge Effects, Angelica Modabber discusses her exhibition, "Water and Oil." Through stunning photographs of peripheral spaces and faces, she explores the topography of memory in Iran: how ecological change, exile, and diaspora is ossified in the land and its inhabitants. 👣 📷

Today on Edge Effects, scholars from a range of disciplines share books/films they are most excited to teach this year on environmental futures and futurity. Their gift for our present, these recommendations span from science fiction to documentary, speculative poetry to historical exhibit. 📚💭

Today on the Edge Effects podcast, Laleh Ahmad speaks with Ramachandra Guha about his new book, Speaking with Nature (2024). They explore how identity and knowledge politics shape environmentalism and environmental history in India and around the world. 🇮🇳☀️ #envhum #envhist

Today on Edge Effects, Mia Werger's poetic fieldnotes and stunning drawings bring a powerful conclusion to our Companion Species series. While befriending feedlot cattle, Werger reflects on the more-than-human experience, surviving amidst hopelessness, and dreaming of a free tomorrow. 🐄🖤

Today on Edge Effects, Christopher Conz and Christina Balch mesh archival documents with art to humanize the migrant mining workers of southern Africa. Their exhibit draws attention to the systems of extractive capitalism that demonize migrants around the world. 📜🎨

Today on Edge Effects, @poisoniv3y.bsky.social draws parallels between contemporary libertarian visions and oceanic colonialism of the 19th century. Seasteading may seem like futuristic science fiction, but Robert Stevenson's The Ebb-Tide offers grave warnings about how this old idea plays out. 🛳️🏖️

Today on Edge Effects, our Companion Species series continues with Benjamin Chin-Hung Kao's excavation of the history of bears in Japanese popular culture. From Indigenous symbol to colonial icon, these charismatic mascots belie Japan's violent political history.

Today on Edge Effects, Jerald Lim uses the twin cinema, a poetic form that originates from Singapore, to (re)present the perspectives and vibrancy of our plant companions. The rhizomatic structure of their poems help us imagine a world beyond dualism. 🍄🌳

A conniving, dog-headed god to the Aztecs and a cutesy "water puppy" in today's popular imagination, axolotls have a tumultuous history with humans. In today's Companion Species installment, Alex Ventimilla explores how these creatures trouble Western categories and dualisms. 🦎🐶

Today on Edge Effects, Nate Carlin is back with a review of six more of the latest nature-themed board games. What do these quintessential constructions of nature reveal about how we understand and relate to the environment? Nate plays with these ideas and more. 🌲♟️ edgeeffects.net/latest-envir...

Today on the Edge Effects Podcast, a special episode with SustainUW and professor Jim Feldman. We discuss the history of Earth Day in the United States, glimpse Earth Fest celebrations on campus, and underline embracing environmental protection beyond just April 22. 🌎 edgeeffects.net/earth-fest/

Why are people drawn to the other-than-human, sometimes to detrimental ends? I'm excited to share this piece on interspecies captiv(e-)ation:

Today on Edge Effects, our Companion Species series dives into fishy companionship. Wading in the waters of Utah Lake, Teri Harman explores the history, resilience, and culpability of “invasive” carp in Utah Lake. Are carp the villains or victims of this story? 🐟 edgeeffects.net/invasive-carp/

Happy World Environment Day! Today on Edge Effects, Companion Species continues as Quinn Georgic uses the concept of captivation (or captive-ation) to unpack the mutual power that binds humans and primates together—from HBO's CHIMP CRAZY to fieldwork with lemurs. 🐒 edgeeffects.net/interspecies...

Today on Edge Effects, Lydia Lapporte adds to Companion Species by discussing the intersecting projects of kelp recovery and decarceration. She demonstrates that relational companionship and abolition ecologies can be useful for both kelp & incarcerated people. 🌿🌊 edgeeffects.net/kelp-recover...

Today on Edge Effects, Companion Species continues with Genevieve Pfeiffer on Indigenous caribou entanglement, conservation, and how AI might be responsibly used in this effort. 🦌 edgeeffects.net/caribou-cons...

Today on Edge Effects, Companion Species continues as Maxime Fecteau explores his experience with Lyme disease & how an undesired relationship with ticks still has profound impact on his way of seeing ecological degradation, multispecies kinship, and the Anthropocene. 🕷️ edgeeffects.net/tick-kinship/

Today on Edge Effects, Vita Sleigh investigates the connections between animal consent, interspecies erotics, and the (at times violent) power differentials of relationships with other-than-human beings. How can we handle our attractions to them with care? 🐕 edgeeffects.net/animal-conse...

Today on Edge Effects, in reviewing Robert Macfarlane's forthcoming book IS A RIVER ALIVE?, Anna Christensen Spydell connects colonial dehumanization of Indigenous and immigrant "Others" to the pollution & objectification of rivers around the world. 🌊 edgeeffects.net/who-gets-to-...

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Today on Edge Effects, Companion Species continues as Nat Xu uses the sinking NYC swamp and their work in it to reflect on Indigenous stewardship, more-than-human precarity, and restorative conservation as an imperfect practice. 🚧 edgeeffects.net/the-swamp/

CALL TO ACTION: Our previous supporters at the Wisconsin Humanities are facing loss of funding due to federal directives. If you're able, ensure the future of public humanities in Wisconsin through the Next Chapter Campaign. Thanks all! wisconsinhumanities.org?gad_source=1...

Can companions be kin and consumed? Today on Edge Effects, Mara Dicenta Vilker, Micah Dill, & Elena McCullough argue yes. They take a river-view to companionship by bringing together herring restoration discourse with fishers' oral histories. 🐟 edgeeffects.net/human-herrin...

Today on Edge Effects, our series continues as Diné scholar Kelsey Dayle John uses a poem and short essay to reflect on how the complex fear of witnessing her two dogs fight shaped her approach to multispecies relations. 🐾 edgeeffects.net/love-violenc...

#ILOVEBHL and have ever since I published this listicle of archives for @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social -- edgeeffects.net/environmenta...

How can uncharismatic beings possibly teach us about companionship? Today on Edge Effects, our series continues with Lizzie Smith’s focus on biocrusts—“bundles” of bacteria that show deserts are full of life, wonder, and instructions for a more interconnected future. 🦠 edgeeffects.net/biocrusts/

Today on Edge Effects, our Companion Species series continues as Kathleen Gekiere argues for wilderness as a multispecies performance, embodied by the practices of horses and humans on the trail. 🐴 edgeeffects.net/equine-compa...

Today on Edge Effects, we begin our Companion Species series with a special keynote from historian Harriet Ritvo. She sets the stage by introducing varied threads of animal companionship—from influence and impact to proximal, favored reciprocity. 🐈 🐜🐇🐀🪰🐕 edgeeffects.net/companions-a...

Today on Edge Effects, Erica Cherepko illustrates how Japan’s longstanding, community-based marine conservation utilizes "satoumi" to blend cultural tradition and innovation, protecting coastal ecosystems. 🦑 edgeeffects.net/satoumi/

Today on Edge Effects, art historian Katherine Gregory excavates buried histories of racial violence and explores why a sweet little building had to die in Cauleen Smith’s short film REMOTE VIEWING. ⛪ edgeeffects.net/cauleen-smit...

Today on the Edge Effects Podcast, Bethany Wiggin speaks with Nathaniel Otjen & Juan Manuel Rubio on their show MINING FOR THE CLIMATE and the significance of public-facing environmental humanities. ⛏️🌎  edgeeffects.net/otjen-rubio/

Today on Edge Effects, Savannah Pearson unearths the history of tunneling activism in England, speculating its historical popularity in protesting environmental and human harm. ⚒️ edgeeffects.net/tunneling-ac...

Today on the Edge Effects Podcast, we warmly welcome environmental humanities authors Sarah Dimick, Lisa Han, and Ben Stanley for a first-of-its-kind special episode about their newly published books. We hope you enjoy!📚 edgeeffects.net/sarah-dimick...

Today on Edge Effects, Kate Judith shares a creative, multimodal story through the voices of the cuckoo and currawong, which underscore the tension between parasitism and care across species. 🐣 edgeeffects.net/cuckoos-and-...

Today on the Edge Effects Podcast, Prerna Rana speaks with Sarah Robert & Jennifer Gaddis about their new book, discussing school food programs’ catalytic potential in the betterment of global health, agriculture, and care. 🍎 edgeeffects.net/robert-gaddis/

Today on Edge Effects, Jac Common & Katy Lewis Hood trace marine aggregates dredging in UK coastal waters, arguing that this extractive industry should be situated in capitalist, colonial ocean histories & presents. 🐚 🌊 edgeeffects.net/unruly-sedim...

LAST CHANCE to submit to our special series! FULL DRAFT and pitch is due by Feb. 20. We'd love to hear from you!

Today on the Edge Effects Podcast, Will Brockliss sits down with documentarian Jeff Spitz to reflect on uranium cleanup in Monument Valley, partnering with the Navajo Nation, and ethical environmental filmmaking. 🏜️ edgeeffects.net/jeff-spitz/

Today on Edge Effects, scholars share recommended works on environmental activism in art & fiction—exploring aesthetic opposition to precarity or cultural traditions uplifting alternative ecological narratives & knowledge. We hope you enjoy them! edgeeffects.net/faculty-reco...

Today on Edge Effects, Laleh Ahmad argues that the solarpunk genre offers imaginable, realistic green futures based on renewable energy and communal self-reliance, rooted in justice and care. 🏢🪴 edgeeffects.net/solarpunk/

PLEASE SHARE — Edge Effects is delighted to announce the theme for our 2025 special series: Companion Species! Anyone is welcome to submit to this series, due February 20, 2025. Read more & apply: edgeeffects.net/companion-sp...

Reposting for visibility: Today on Edge Effects Fieldnotes, a trip to the bathroom sends Henry Hughes on a journey to discover what tiny critters are living in the urinals and what we might learn from them in this era of environmental precarity. 🪰 edgeeffects.net/drain-flies/

Reposting for visibility: Today on Edge Effects, Alexis Schmidt examines the historical transition of Change of Air travel from a medical prescription into a commodified & efficient vacation on the coast—an attitude that persists in vacation narratives to this day. 🏖️ edgeeffects.net/change-of-ai...

Reposting old essays for visibility: What actually happens at the UN Conference of Parties? Today on Edge Effects, Cody Skahan gives an insider view & wonders how youth environmental activism can persist amidst crackdowns on protest and the allure of political power. 🔎 edgeeffects.net/cop28/

EE has made the switch! If you know anyone here who likes environmental justice, community knowledge, multispecies study, battling climate change, and general environmental musings, send them our way 🌿