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Stories, Voices, Analysis Himanee Gupta-Carlson Stories, Voices, Analysis Himanee Gupta-Carlson

Shifting Ground: Farming, Land Use, and Food Sovereignty

In the first installment of her new “Shifting Ground” series, Himanee Gupta-Carlson introduces us to the experiences that have led her and her husband to make a commitment to “cultivating food security on a regional level through regenerative agricultural practices and participating in food sovereignty movements worldwide.” The series will trace their journey over the coming year as they move their farm to a new location following racialized protests against their agricultural practices in their current location.

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Stories, Analysis, Voices Derek Sherrange Stories, Analysis, Voices Derek Sherrange

Food Sovereignty and the Future of Regenerative Farming

In his third article previewing the upcoming North Country Art, Land, and Environment Summit to be held from September 9 to October 2, Derek Sherrange draws on the work of educator and farmer Dr. Himanee Gupta-Carlson to explore the concept of food sovereignty and its relevance for the work of overcoming settler-colonial structures and building regenerative forms of agriculture.

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Stories, Voices Derek Sherrange Stories, Voices Derek Sherrange

Ecocentrism – Looking to Other Ways of Knowing

In his second article previewing the upcoming North Country Art, Land, and Environment Summit to be held from September 9 to October 2, Derek Sherrange draws on the work of Dr. Claudia Ford (SUNY Potsdam) to explore the tensions between mainstream (settler) environmentalism and indigenous paradigms grounded in ecocentrism and traditional ecological knowledge.

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Stories, Voices, Analysis Derek Sherrange Stories, Voices, Analysis Derek Sherrange

On Settler Colonialism: Hearing from the Kanien:keha'ka (Mohawk) Nation

In preparation for the upcoming North Country Art, Land, and Environment Summit to be held from September 9 to October 2, Derek Sherrange begins a new series on food sovereignty and decolonization. In this first installment, Sherrange provides an overview of the concept of settler colonialism and shares the insights of Katsitsionni Fox (Bear Clan), a Kanien:keha'ka (Mohawk) artist, filmmaker, and educator.

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Stories, Analysis, Voices Charles Scaife Stories, Analysis, Voices Charles Scaife

Sentiments of a Black Scientist: Letter to My White Colleagues

“You have the privilege to choose when you want to listen, reflect, and act on diversity in STEM. Because you have chosen, for now, to listen, can I make a suggestion? Rather than replying with sympathy, stories, and silver linings, develop a plan for what you’re going to do to change.” In his contribution to our Surviving PWIs for POC series, Charles Scaife writes a letter to white scientists.

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Stories, Analysis John Collins Stories, Analysis John Collins

On the Materiality of Solidarity

“Remember the solidarity here and everywhere…” Beginning with this quote from the legendary Palestinian scholar Edward Said, John Collins offers some reflections on a recent panel discussion where he and colleagues from Mexico, Palestine, and the UK discussed the looming threat of Israeli annexation and the changing conditions within which activists around the world express their solidarity with Palestine’s struggle for liberation.

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Stories, Analysis, Voices Karen Chalamilla Stories, Analysis, Voices Karen Chalamilla

Straddling Gratitude and Resentment

In the latest installment of our Surviving PWIs for POC series, Karen Chalamilla reflects on her postgrad education at SOAS (University of London). “Simply being critical of Euro-patriarchal thinking will never be enough,” writes Chalamilla. “Its dominance runs too deep. If this is what academic institutions consider to be decolonization, then we ought to question whether the project is worth our energy at all.”

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Stories, Analysis Blake Lavia Stories, Analysis Blake Lavia

White Privilege, COVID-19, and the End of Capitalism

In the widespread protests against police violence following the murder of George Floyd, Blake Lavia sees evidence of how COVID-19 has brought the problems of a “racist economic system” into sharper view. Can the current uprisings hold the key to addressing both the climate crisis and the need to build a more just economic system? The challenge, Lavia argues, is for white people to look themselves in the mirror, go beyond performative solidarity, and work actively to dismantle oppressive systems.

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Stories, Analysis Melissa Pérez Sancho Stories, Analysis Melissa Pérez Sancho

Huetar Norte: Complex Fruits of Globalization in Costa Rica

In the age of globalization and “free trade,” global consumers are accustomed to having access to a wide variety of fruits from around the world. Like all products, however, this fruit is grown, circulated, and consumed in ways that generate complex effects at all scales, from the local to the global. As part of our Glocal Dispatches series, Melissa Pérez Sancho reports on the case of the pineapple industry in Costa Rica and the questions this case raises regarding social, economic, and environmental justice.

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Stories, News, Analysis Gabriela Paz Ferreyra Barrientos Stories, News, Analysis Gabriela Paz Ferreyra Barrientos

Bolivia Faces a Double Battle

The effects of the coronavirus pandemic intersect with the effects of other social, political, and environmental problems throughout the world. Reporting from Bolivia, Gabriela Paz Ferreyra Barrientos explores how Bolivian society finds itself caught between ongoing political instability and a public health emergency: “Violence and confrontation in Bolivia require an urgent democratic election, yet the health of Bolivians is crying out for them to stay home and take care of themselves.”

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Stories, Voices Weave News Stories, Voices Weave News

Campus Quarantine: A Student Documentary

Weave News is proud to join The Hill News (the St. Lawrence University student newspaper) in co-publishing Campus Quarantine, a new documentary about students stuck on campus during the COVID-19 pandemic. Filmed and directed by Meiting Li, the documentary features excerpts from interviews conducted with St. Lawrence students, including graduating seniors, who remained on campus during the period of “remote learning” at the end of the Spring 2020 semester. What was it like for them? What challenges have they been facing? What have they learned from the experience, and what are they looking forward to?

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Stories, Voices, Analysis Talking Wings Stories, Voices, Analysis Talking Wings

Let's Celebrate Earth Guardians and Environmental Solutions

On this Earth Day, we from the Talking Wings Collective are saying no to doom and gloom. Especially during the current pandemic, it is easy to succumb to an apocalyptic worldview. But we must also celebrate the brave work of human communities who are striving to plant the seeds of global/local change. At this very moment, these “earth and water guardians” are pushing back the hands of the doomsday clock and working against time to create a sustainable and regenerative future.

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Stories, Analysis, Voices Sara Monggaard Stories, Analysis, Voices Sara Monggaard

Quarantine Demands Rethinking the 'Educational Factory'

Sara Monggaard reflects on the implications of the pandemic for the experience of university students. “I believe in this period of monumental global pause, unity and introspection, we have a unique window to look forward. It is time to tear our structures apart and rethink the purpose of ‘education’ with restructured learning objectives and methods. What does it mean to be educated? What should education prepare us to tackle?

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Stories, Analysis Łukasz W. Niparko Stories, Analysis Łukasz W. Niparko

Return to Materialism: COVID-19 Fieldnotes for Upstanders

Łukasz W. Niparko writes: In recent days, we have read enough dystopian visions of the post-COVID world. I do not want to write another one. Because in the hands of upstanders rests the choice between dystopia, maintenance of the status quo, or perhaps a quasi-utopian victory for all of humanity. While being under lockdown, or while on the subway, we have the choice to rethink the losses of the past 30 years and be upstanders before others steal the few freedoms we still have left.

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