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What would it mean to see through the eyes of dogs? The tangled histories of humans and animals show us how personhood, criminality, and cruelty are constructed. The post What Dogs Can Teach Us About Justice: A Conversation with Colin Dayan appeared first on Edge Effects.

An anthropologist and activist discusses her work with Indigenous youth and how social services and other state programs may be colonial intervention by another name. The post Indigenous Youth and the Changing Face of Settler Colonialism: A Conversation with Jaskiran Dhillon appeared first on Edge Effects.

Are there better ethics than hope? Two scholars with new books about the author of Walden reflect on Henry David Thoreau's environmental ethic, flirtations with despair, and anarchist politics. The post Thoreau, Now More than Ever: A Conversation with Laura Dassow Walls and Daegan Miller appeared first on Edge Effects.

One historian exposes shadowy corners of cannabis's history and offers prescriptions for achieving a bright, sustainable future for the world's widest-ranging crop. The post A Century of Cannabis: A Conversation with Nick Johnson appeared first on Edge Effects.

The decline of honeybees is cause for alarm and a symptom of global biodiversity loss. Beekeepers, however, find creative ways to build relationships with honeybees and steward their hives. The post Finding Hope and Community with Honeybees: A Conversation with Heather Swan appeared first on Edge Effects.

What does the scientific study of biological diversity have to do with the history of U.S. imperialism in the Caribbean? Just about everything, says the author of a new book on American field stations in the tropics. The post The Tangled Roots of U.S. Imperialism and Biodiversity Science: A Conversation with Megan Raby appeared first on Edge Effects.

The fight against African American land loss isn't just about economic justice. It's about environmental sustainability. The post Food Justice Requires Land Justice: A Conversation with Savi Horne appeared first on Edge Effects.

To be outside the "home" was a dangerous place to be in Gilded Age America. Richard White tells the story of how the modern nation reluctantly came into being alongside the environmental crisis of the late nineteenth century. The post Making the Nation in the Gilded Age: A Conversation with Richard White appeared first on Edge Effects.

Two centuries ago, Ojibwe people planned for seven generations to come. Today that seventh generation is fighting for the treaty rights their ancestors established and a just, sustainable future. The post We Are the Seventh Generation: A Conversation with Winona LaDuke appeared first on Edge Effects.

Making things right in the face of climate change demands that colonialism, race, and gender take center stage in the story of capitalism. The post The Case for Ecological Reparations: A Conversation with Jason W. Moore appeared first on Edge Effects.

Fertilizers, computers, gasoline, and other parts of our everyday lives come from irreplaceable deposits found in the Earth. But how long will they last? The post The Fragile Society We’ve Built from Rocks: A Conversation With Gregory Cushman appeared first on Edge Effects.

The author of "The Hamlet Fire" discusses a deadly blaze at a chicken-processing facility and the logics of cheapness which provided the kindling. The post How’d We Get So Cheap? A Conversation with Bryant Simon appeared first on Edge Effects.

The author of "The Mushroom at the End of the World" is back with another exploration of how humans and non-humans will make their lives in the ruins of modernity. The post The Best of End Times: A Conversation with Anna Tsing appeared first on Edge Effects.

A new history of the Ghost Dance shows Native Americans preparing to live within industrial capitalism and impoverished landscapes without succumbing to assimilation. The post A History Buried at Wounded Knee: A Conversation with Louis Warren appeared first on Edge Effects.

An important new essay collection avoids the old arguments about wilderness and instead offers 26 meditations on living well in our places. The post The Wild Bunch: A Conversation with Curt Meine and Gavin Van Horn appeared first on Edge Effects.

We know nature is good for our brains. Can buildings be, too? A preeminent architectural critic calls for a radical shift in how we design the places where we live, work, and play. The post The (Built) Environmental Revolution: A Conversation with Sarah Williams Goldhagen appeared first on Edge Effects.

The French composer Olivier Messaien attempted to reproduce the calls of 80 European birds in a three-hour piece for solo piano. Did he succeed? The post Can a Piano Sing a Birdsong? appeared first on Edge Effects.

The author of the new book "Apollo in the Age of Aquarius" shows how NASA shaped, and was shaped by, 1960s environmentalism, feminism, conservatism, counterculture, antiwar protests, and the black freedom struggle. The post NASA and the Explosive 1960s: A Conversation with Neil Maher appeared first on Edge Effects.

When the mines closed throughout Wisconsin's Gogebic Range, its population collapsed. But many left their hearts there. Now some are even moving back. The post Love for Home in a Place Industry Left Behind appeared first on Edge Effects.

Ivy League institutions are scrambling to uncover their links to the history of slavery. But the University of Mississippi—built by slaves, amid slave plantations, for slaveowners to teach future slaveowners—might offer the richest insights into the nation's unshakable ties to centuries of bondage. The post Ole Miss and the Shadow of Slavery: A Conversation with Jeffrey Jackson and Charles Ross appeared first on Edge Effects.