Seeking new words and new worlds
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Writing
Books
An Ecology of Knowledges: Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation
Duke University Press, 2020
Interview about the book on the Green Dreamer podcast
Interview about the book on the New Books Network podcast
Interview about the book on the Anthro & Environment Society’s Engagement Blog
Review of the book on the Allegra Lab blog
Review of the book in American Anthropologist
Review of the book in the Journal of Latin American Studies (paywall)
Essays & Stories
Peer-reviewed articles
Home and Away: the Politics of Life After Earth
Environment and Society: Advances in Research, 2019
Violencia, Incertidumbre y Urgencia en la Conservación del Bosque en Guatemala
ecología politica, 2016
But is it a Basin? Science, Controversy, and Conspiracy in the Fight for Mirador, Guatemala
Science as culture, 2015
Journal of Political Ecology, 2014
Book Reviews
aag Review of books, 2017
science and public policy, 2015
Blog posts and other tidbits
Writing with Confidence at the Sentence Level
Ideas on Fire Blog, 2020
Honey, let we tell you! A speculative trans-species storytelling of the Maya Forest borderlands
Platypus, the CASTAC Blog, 2020
Ethnographic Ableism: Structural Silencing of Physical Disability in Anthropological Research
The new ethnographer, 2018
Confessions of a Reluctant Climate Project Collaborator
Engagement blog (Anthropology & Environment society), 2016
Conservation, Knowledge, and Collaboration in the Maya Biosphere Reserve
Wenner-Gren blog, 2015
Fieldsights — Field Notes, Cultural Anthropology Online, 2013
Ongoing projects
Life after earth
Free university dreaming
Exploring the imaginaries of extraterrestrial futures, from privatized NewSpace to Gaia budding. Imagined futures take work to make them come to pass, including new research trajectories, new infrastructures, and new political arrangements.
This project asks not how these futures might unfold, but what effects they have on the earth here and now.
Many academics write about liberatory politics, but give their labor to institutions that work against those goals. What would a liberated scholarly world look like - a free university? Maybe it’s engaged in the struggle for decolonization on stolen land. Maybe it’s situated in prisons, or free for those who have been incarcerated. Maybe it grows food, and feeds its community. Maybe it’s not a university at all, but a pluriversity.
This project is about dreaming the world we want to research, write, and create in. Got a dream? Share it here!