The Mississippi Basin: An Operational Landscape
Architect and urbanist Nikos Katsikis describes the assemblage of “operational landscapes” that are tied to the Mississippi basin. (...)
Lake Chad: Sharing a Diminishing Resource?
Lake Chad is a central feature in the livelihoods and economies of several countries. Local and regional pressures have always been a challenge, but the new stress of diminishing rainfall is deepening this challenge. (...)
Oysters, Selective Pressures, and Antibiotic Resistance in the Mississippi Delta
In addition to its position as a pillar of New Orleans cuisine, the humble oyster has also taken on another, more troubling role—serving as an indicator of water contamination in the Mississippi River Delta and the Lousiana Gulf. (...)
After the Industrial River: Essay Collection
An essay collection exploring the past and future infrastructural interventions into the Mississippi River. (...)
In Search of Lost Crops Where the Buffalo Roam
A reflection by archaeologist and ethnobotanist Natalie G. Mueller on how sharing meal of long lost plants transformed her research perspective. (...)
The Anthropogenic Influence on Air Quality along the Mississippi River: Findings
Findings of a project considering anthropogenic impact upon air quality along the Mississippi River, exploring shifts in pollution concentration patterns. (...)
Chi-Nations Youth Council
In this short film, Adrian Pochel, one of the lead organizers of the Chi-Nations Youth Council talks through the group’s work promoting Indigenous rights in the city of Chicago. (...)
The Tennessee Valley Authority goes Japan: A river’s way into the Anthropocene
Damming as a means to achieve economic prosperity. A comparison with similar interventions around the world. (...)
Arriving in the Anthropocene: 300 years of adaptation to hurricanes and Mississippi floods in New Orleans
In keeping with many of the themes underpinning the Anthropocene River Campus, Eleonora Rohland explains how the question of adaptation so present post-Katrina has a much longer history in NOLA. (...)
Defensive Ecologies: Extracting Asian Carp from the Illinois River
A welcome service laborer turned invasive pest in the Mississippi River, Asian Carp are subject to a variety of efforts to exert control upon their spread and attempts to extract them from the Illinois River. (...)
The Possibility of All Species in an “All Species Parade”
The annual “All Species Puppet Parade” in Carbondale prompts Andrew Yang to contemplate just how all-encompassing the phrase really is. (...)
Hydraulic Houston
Anthropologist Dominic Boyer and sociologist Mark Vardy describe the amphibious futurism that needs to prevail if Houston is to survive the twenty-first century. (...)
#6 Intro to Season 2: Migration - Perspectives on Discplacement in the Anthropocene
Introduction to season 2 of the podcast. The field station finds itself stationed in Berlin, Germany where Abbéy Odunlami sits down with various interlocutors to understand what migration means to this section of the global north. (...)
Fanning Comfort
A conversation on how the object of the punkah fan speaks to histories of both subjugation and liberation, and how we might relate such narratives to contemporary climate injustice. (...)
#5 Cooperation Jackson & the struggle for the waterways (live in Jackson, MS)
Cooperation Jackson is an emerging vehicle for sustainable community development, economic democracy, and community ownership. Listen to episode 5 now! (...)
#3 Perils of Privatization in NOLA
Jared Richardson and Dr. Justin Hosbey grapple with neoliberalism’s effects on Black communities within New Orleans. Listen to episode 3 now! (...)
#4 Black Ecologies: Historicization & Futures
On the spatial politics of plantation economies and the connection between faith and environmentalism. Episode 4 available now! (...)
#1 By Land & By Sea: A Journey Through the Mississippi Delta
Abbéy Odunlami and Jared Richardson introduce their individual research projects and discuss Field Station 5’s broader themes. Episode 1 available now! (...)
