the UCL IAS Review
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’?
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
FÍACHA O’DOWDA
Many of the contemporary practices and ideas that underpin biodiversity conservation in Madagascar are imported and implemented from abroad. What does that mean for Indigenous’s practices?
ALEXANDRA BAYBUTT with CLEOPATRA GLITHERO
This video clip emphasises the often-sobering repetitiveness of email correspondence with public offices.
WILL DAMARJIAN If these walls could talk they would tell you everything I cannot say, They would groan and protest under the strain, Unlike me, these walls …
WILL DAMARJIAN with EMILY BAKER People can complain, but are they heard? People can raise their voices in anger, but can they truly disrupt institutional procedures which neutralise dissent?
SIMON FARID
A series of visual accounts showing four encounters with complaints I had in Spring/Summer 2022 through working at a major art gallery and as a resident artist at the Institute of Advanced Studies.
VICKI BAARS
Complaining can be understood as something very broadly defined, sharing your unease with something, or very specifically defined, entering into a formal ‘complaints’ process.
LO MARSHALL
When invited to contribute a piece on hostile environments in higher education, my mind immediately drifted to a scene in the film A Fantastic Woman.
CLEOPATRA GLITHERO
I am not good at being late. This feels like a strange thing to say as a person who is about to enter her sixth year of a normally three-year undergraduate degree in the hopes of graduating for the first time aged 28. But here I am…
ALEXANDRA BAYBUTT
I paused by the purple cladded Tour Guides who were showing a small group a picture of the building from a bird’s eye view, The Cruciform, the St George’s cross design.
MATAIO AUSTIN DEAN
I am as brown as brown can be,
With the swirling riches high,
Piled tightly into my sloe bush eyes –