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The Amazon: Beyond the ‘Insider/Outsider’ Distinction
EMILY BAKER
Taking Claude Lévi-Strauss’s memoir Tristes Tropiques as an example – what role do nonhuman entities play in fashioning narratives about the Amazon, whether produced by Indigenous people or ‘newcomers’?
Argentina: From Mainstream Bioart to Situated Bioart
LUCÍA STUBRIN
Bioart emerged in the 1990s and its artists generate a critical debate about biotechnology and life processes. This piece provides an overview of the bioart scene in Argentina.
Brazil: Those Who Bathe Within the Anthropocene
MARIA PAULA PRATES
Mbyá-Guarani Indigenous women’s children are ever more likely to be born in hospitals and thus without the support of ambojau va’e (‘those who bathe’). What does this mean for the women’s reproductive and sexual health?
JOURNAL
Venezuela: Early Solar Materialism
GIANFRANCO SELGAS
The period between 1890 to 1980 marked Venezuela’s insertion into the vortex of oil extraction. But the political and cultural discourses built around oil rendered invisible other cultures nurtured around the extraction of nature.
Chile: Pewenche Ecology
ROBERT PETITPAS
Delving into the Pewenche ecology of the pewen tree, this piece reflects on the problems and injustices of a colonial way of inhabiting the world and its related conservation approaches.
Congo: Indigenous Ecologies Through Walking
ALICE VITTORIA
Walking occupies the everyday life of the Bayaka. It is a prerequisite for their well-being and one of the main sources of both cultural continuity and innovation. Forest walking is also an initiation into Bayaka relational ecology
ARTICLES
The Black Atlantic at 30: Even the Whales Don’t Read
PHOEBE BRAITHWAITE
The second instalment of this mini series celebrating Paul Gilroy’s seminal book, explores the enduring tension in his work between music and the written word, and how this generates a planetary version of human life.
The Wastiary: Zero Waste
PUSHPA ARABINDOO
To celebrate the IAS publication Wastiary, Think Pieces is publishing three chapters that reflect different perspectives on waste, the meanings and manifestations of it. Third: Zero Waste.
The Wastiary: Yawning and Yearning
TATIANA THIEME
To celebrate the IAS publication Wastiary, Think Pieces is publishing three chapters that reflect different perspectives on waste, the meanings and manifestations of it. Second: Yawning and Yearning.
REVIEWS
Writing from West to East
TOMASZ JABLONSKI
The Spanish port of Sanlúcar is a crucial landmark in the history of European colonisation. The port was unavoidable for ships arriving in Europe and departing to the Americas. Countless opportunists and colonisers …
Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis
REBECCA EMPSON
Public debate around the climate catastrophe has become increasingly fraught, divisive and desperate. The exhibition Dear Earth at the Hayward Gallery offers a fresh approach.
Dancing Amongst Forests Gone
ADRIANA SUÁREZ DELUCCHI
My visit to Cecilia Vicuña’s exhibition Brain Forest Quipu at the Tate Modern was an immersive experience. Although situated in the open plan space of the Turbine Hall, I was pulled into a far more intimate and inward place.
