Revisiting Forgotten Foods: A Case Study from California
This photo essay looks at how a forgotten local food—the berry-producing Manzanita shrub of northern California—has begun to make its way back into the diets of the local community.
This photo essay looks at how a forgotten local food—the berry-producing Manzanita shrub of northern California—has begun to make its way back into the diets of the local community.
These essays showcase examples from Canada and Western Europe, offering insights into how different forms of environmental knowledge and environmental politics come to be seen as legitimate or illegitimate.
Clapperton evaluates three existing frameworks for understanding Indigenous and non-Indigenous claims to know the environment. While each framework has its strengths, they reinforce a binary between Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge and keep salvage paradigms of Indigenous knowledge alive. Clapperton calls for an enlarged definition of Indigenous knowledge that could account for boundary-crossing and Indigenous people “doing” science.
Frawley’s essay explores oyster populations and technologies in southern Queensland in the late nineteenth century.
Kathryn M. de Luna explores the gendered micropolitics of knowledge production through a case study of Botatwe-speaking societies (ca. 750–1250) in south central Africa.
The authors of this volume explore the potential value and challenges of the Rights of Nature concept by examining legal theory, politics, and recent case studies.
Berros describes some of the first cases in which Rights of Nature was directly referenced in the courts of Ecuador.
Sutherland explores the practice of controlled burning in Canadian national parks.
This volume explores the question of whether science should be centered in climate-change communication.
Brill explores the relationship between “Science” and “the sciences”, and the political potential of the two, in the context of research cooperations involving indigenous groups.