When we eat, we are always eating landscapes. Water and chemicals flow into food, then into the microbes dining in our intestines, connecting us metabolically to ecosystems where food production takes place. This talk will reflect on food as a medium to cultivate awareness of hydrosocial interdependence and stimulate more equitable modes of coexistence, care, and multispecies community. Lisa Blackmore will focus on the project Piquete del Río Bogotá, a communal lunch organized as the entre—ríos collective...
“The Petro-State Masquerade” considers how postcolonial political futures in the Caribbean nation-state of Trinidad and Tobago came to be staked to the market futures of oil, natural gas, and their petrochemical derivatives. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research, Jobson theorizes how the tenuous relationship between oil and political power—enshrined in the hyphenated form of the petro-state—is represented by postcolonial state officials as a Carnivalesque “masquerade of permanence” through the perpetual...
Join us for a book talk with Dr. Oneka LaBennett as she presents her latest work, Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond, which exposes the global threat of environmental catastrophe and the forms of erasure that structure Caribbean women’s lives in the overlooked nation of Guyana.
Previously ranked among the hemisphere’s poorest countries, Guyana is becoming a global leader in per capita oil production, a shift which promises to profoundly transform the nation....
