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Invasive worms--and what is 'savannification'? (part 1 of 2): Explaining earthworms and environmental histories (with maps!) of the prairie-woodland boundary in the Northern Plains and Northwoods

(Originally posted elsewhere on 3 December 2019.) More on worm invasion, regarding “savannification” and why the transition zone between boreal forest and temperate woodlands near the “northern central hardwoods forest ecoregion” of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan is a critical region for minimizing the damage from the northward expansion of non-

The 'shift in geographical analytical perspective' and a working-class oceanic history: Savala on transnational labor solidarity and other circulations between Peru and Chile

(Originally posted elsewhere on 26 June 2023.) An excerpt from a UC Press blog pseudo-promotional overview by Savala about his text Beyond Patriotic Phobias: Connections, Cooperation, and Solidarity in the Peruvian-Chilean Pacific World (University of California Press, 2022). And an excerpt from an interview with Savala regarding his

What would Bertolt Brecht and Baudrillard think of 'Big Mouth Billy Bass'?

mack the knife

Contextualizing a boastful promotional pamphlet from New Orleans, 1900

Entomology, sugar refining, war port

Are 'smurf-berries' real?: On the 'second transatlantic crossing' of sarsaparilla and Early Modern botanical knowledge

(Originally posted elsewhere on 26 July 2023.) I was looking at photos of old 1980s consumer products available in US supermarkets. Upon seeing a Post product, "Smurf-Berry Crunch," which launched in 1983, I recalled a JSTOR Daily piece by Wouter Klein, where Klein invoked the smurf-berry/

Precarity in Istanbul: Connecting popular movements, developmentalism, disaster, and neoliberal disavowal in contemporary Turkish urban histories

(Originally posted elsewhere in September 2023.) Wanted to contextualize popular movements for housing in Istanbul (and Turkey more broadly). Really enjoyed Kostem's piece on rumor/communication. Both scholars here address development: In Kostem's case, an infrastructure project cutting through an urban commons. In Tugal's

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Reading beyond colonial archives on the image of Bombay 'slums,' the racialization of urban labor, state disavowal, and histories of housing precarity: A look at Sheetahl Chhabria's scholarship

(Chhabria’s interview originally analyzed in a post elsewhere on 9 April 2023. Review of Chhabria’s book originally analyzed in a post elsewhere on 1 May 2023.) I thought it’d be nice to consider Sheetal Chhabria’s own words alongside other scholars discussing her work. Anish Vanaik proposes

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Contextualizing a joke about militarized 'Great Black (Bass Pro Shop) Pyramid': Labor coercion, Black dissent, supply-chain ghost acres, and armed guards defending a box-store parking lot

The Great Wheel of the evergreen tech-utopia masks the hinterland of the dispossessed. Excerpt 1: When Ferguson was burning, the National Guard set up base camp in the parking lot of Target. Men armed with automatic weapons guarded the Ross Dress for Less. Beyond the border of the parking

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A 'first verified record' of a 'new' lizard in British Columbia(?): Teaching geography of the Pacific Northwest through news of a driftwood-pile denizen

(Originally posted elsewhere on 14 August 2020.) It happened, they found one: a “new” lizard species (well, subspecies) formally documented within the borders of British Columbia (and, by extension, the nation of Canada): the Northwestern fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis occidentalis). Not a surprise to me, having been fixated on maps/

imperial ruination

Toxic continuum: Connecting Indigenous labor (and illness) at Great Bear Lake to the nuclear devastation at Hiroshima

(Originally posted elsewhere on 21 July 2023.) Just two excerpts, which together draw attention to the Great Bear Lake, the Canadian government's obscuring of health risk to Indigenous laborers, and the entanglement of boreal Canada with Japan and the US military. -- Excerpt 1: Seventy-five years after two

Resources for recently-published texts on inter/transnationalism and Blackness in the Americas, with focus on disability/health, knowledge, art, and appropriation

(Originally posted elsewhere on 20 April 2024.) Art, music, knowledge (and commodification): Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power (Larisa Kingston Mann, 2022) West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals: History, Memory, and Transnationalism (Raphael Chijikoe Njoku, 2020) At Home in Our Sounds: Music,

Resources on devastation of British game-bird hunting: Connecting 'Celtic Rainforest' loss, news of peatland fires, the release of millions of non-native birds a year, and mass leisure

(Originally posted elsewhere on 30 May 2022.) So this news from 29 May 2022 about how, to prepare land for the lucrative bird-hunting season in the UK, wealthy hunting/shooting estate owners burn peat bogs and peatlands, imperiling biodiversity and integrity of these native ecosystems. This also brings to

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