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Extra-hot day requires extra water. Which you're basically gonna have to pay for. You'll bleed money. And you're gonna have to carry that water with you. Extra weight. Pressing into your shoulder. The heavier pack against your back is gonna contribute to more

Resources about context (and why to be critical) of 'crime panic narratives' in the 'wake' of Black dissent (and the 2026 federal crackdown on 'retail theft epidemic')

Last month (April 2026), I was reading: Maggie Dickinson and Simone Parker, "Policing the Grocery Store: Crime Panic Narratives and Enclosure in the Wake of Urban Uprisings," Antipode 57, no. 6 (2025): 2349-2368. Which came to mind when seeing this circulate: Beyond DHS power consolidation, gotta consider

Mosquitoes and monstrous circuits of science in fascist Italy and Germany: Mussolini's drainage, the Waffen-SS entomology division, and the administrators

Racialization, "imperialist nostalgia," displacement, and rewriting the past at Zor al-Zarqa marshlands: Bentley on colonial zoology and a 'rhetorical historiography of the last Palestinian crocodile'

(Originally posted elsewhere on 5 September 2022.) Surprise: I'm reading about crocodiles and empire again. This time, a really interesting/substantial new piece from Elizabeth Bentley on the British/German/French role in the extinction, representation, and misremembering of Nile crocodiles in Palestine. -- Image in the header, by

'Why does the European Space Agency launch from South America?': A celebrity sloth, a 'colony of little Crusoes,' and the legacy of French 'torture' at 'Devil's Island'

(Originally posted elsewhere on 19 July 2024.) I was watching discourse on social media. "Why does the European Space Agency launch from French Guiana?" Which compels the question: "What is French about the overseas department?" Consider this sloth in the news last year (April 2023) during

Critiquing the rhetoric of carceral archipelagos in recent news of Honduran 'island colony,' El Salvador's 'mega-prison,' and Tapachula's asylum seekers

(Originally posted elsewhere on 19 July 2023.) Hmm. Alarming, ongoing trend in mass incarceration in Central America. Also: Very disingenuous wordplay here. Where do we begin? – Very disingenuous for multiple outlets to run with “the West”. Though this initial AP article does specify that this refers to the Western Hemisphere,

Responding to messages: Histories of Arizona water diversion, Tohono O'odham demonstrations at the border fence, Quitobaquito, and the Yaqui catfish

(Originally posted elsewhere on 15 December 2024.) Thank you for tolerating me for such a long time. Glad you're here. And thank you for remembering the posts (from August 2020) about Cuatro Cienegas in the Chihuahuan Desert. --- Thinking of Arizona specifically, what you described sounds similar to an

Responding to messages: Historicity, modernity, and explaining a joke about 'geological obsession' with 'deep time' of Victorian Britain

(Originally posted elsewhere on 8 March 2025.) Posted about British colonial officials in 1860s South India being fascinated by studying geology of Deccan Plateau as both a potential source of material wealth but also as more like intellectual curiosity that allowed them to consider "deep time" and the

Contextualizing a joke about the 'Great Moon Hoax of 1835' with Kathryn Yusoff's telling of colonial imaginaries of Antarctica, the US Navy's 'Hollow Earth' expedition, and entanglements of fiction and knowledge frontiers

(Originally posted elsewhere on 25 August 2025.) Edgard Allan Poe was implicated not only in dramatizing/fictionalizing imagined stories of discovering life/'civilization' on the moon, but also published a serialized dramatization of expeditions to Antarctica to investigate "Hollow Earth theory." And I love Yusoff'

Ghosts and girls from gekigo to Monthly Halloween: The advent of horror shoujo manga popularity among women, from 'alternative' 1960s to the 1990s boom (in printing) and bust (in markets) in Japan

On 30 October 2023, as the neighborhood’s popularly-beloved statue Hachiko was being fenced-off and shrouded from view to dissuade gathering, Shibuya Ward Head Ken Hasebe announced at a press conference—to great attention and some disappointment—that "Shibuya wa Halloween wo oyasumi shimasu” (“Shibuya is closed

Contextualizing headlines about a 'legendary' giant worm: Remnant Palouse prairie, industrial development, and Indigenous plant stewardship in the inland Pacific Northwest

(Originally posted elsewhere on 13 September 2019.) I imagine you may be annoyed by now given the ongoing fixation on geographical peculiarities of the Okanogan, Palouse, and other corners of the inland Pacific Northwest. Previously, we'd covered how the Clearwater River networks and lower Snake River (both adjacent

Responding to messages: Maps (and counter-maps) of resistance to extractivism in Latin America/Caribbean

(Originally posted elsewhere on 3 September 2023.) Mhm, I imagine you might be thinking of my two-part post from August 2020, which included references to a set of maps published in 2018 in a special publication: Leilane Reis Santos an Maria del Carmen Villarreal Villamar, Pacha: Defending the Land: