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. (...)
Interview: Un/bounded Engineering and Evolutionary Stability
In this interview, Dorothy Cheruiyot, Aron Chang and Jorg Sieweke discuss their research perspectives on “(Un)bounded Engineering and Evolutionary Stability,” which was the topic of a seminar taking place within the framework of the Anthropocene River Campus, 2019. (...)
Ecological Inhabitations: A view from the ground—Discussion
Ravi Agarwal and Ashok Sukumaran wrangle with how we might better understand the complexities of anthropogenic processes. (...)
Ecological Inhabitations: A view from the ground—Lecture
Ravi Agarwal brings his interdisciplinary lens to the topics explored at the State of Nature in India 2019 conference. (...)
Interview: Clashing Temporalities
In this interview, Thomas Turnbull, Catherine Russell and Amy Lesen discuss their research perspectives on “Clashing Temporalities,” which was the topic of a seminar taking place within the framework of the Anthropocene River Campus, 2019. (...)
Interview: Commodity Flows
In this interview, Beate Geissler, Scott Eustis and Benjamin Steininger discuss their research perspectives on “Commodity Flows,” which was the topic of a seminar taking place within the framework of the Anthropocene River Campus, 2019. (...)
Interview: Exhaustion and Imagination
How could the exhausted landscapes and ways of living of the Mississippi Delta be approached by learning to trust in sources of collective imagination? (...)
Femininity, Fecundity, Flow
Jamie Allen’s “river reflection” on the intimate forces, unflappable momentums, and generous flows that accompanied the launch of a river journey. (...)
#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. (...)
#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! (...)
Pictured Journeys, Experiences of Descriptions: Tracing ways down the Mississippi
On the privilege of the storyteller and making visible the various contradictions inherent within efforts to bridge gaps and communicate “what happened” during the Anthropocene River Journey. (...)
Immersion from the Observation Deck
Regan Golden proposes the observation deck at the Visitor Center of St. Anthony as a space for thinking about one’s relationship with—and detachment from—landscape. (...)
When Doves Cry: Project Sweetie Pie
Temporary continent. on how the windows of “opportunity” that speculation focused on Minneapolis’ riverside has brought forth can also be understood as a source of hope in terms of environmental justice. (...)
Mater and Mattering the Mississippi: Mother River and Mother Tongues
Honing in on the “sentiment” that acts as one of the focuses of Field Station 1, in this text, Louise Carver for Temporary continent. considers how the Mississippi River can be read as an embodiment of matrilineal flow. (...)
#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! (...)
#2 Troubling Ecology: Black Feminist Interventions in Environmentalism
Talk with Dr. Chelsea Frazier about the importance of Black feminism’s political and artistic engagements with environmentalism. Episode 2 available now! (...)