Episode 3: “The Place of Objects”
The third episode of Archival Ecologies centers around Nlaka’pamux knowledge keeper John Haugen, who describes the meaning and the making of baskets in his community and the recovery of them after the wildfire.
The third episode of Archival Ecologies centers around Nlaka’pamux knowledge keeper John Haugen, who describes the meaning and the making of baskets in his community and the recovery of them after the wildfire.
In this first episode of Archival Ecologies, Jayme Collins follows one of the many stories of salvage and recovery after the devastating 2021 wildfire in Lytton, Canada—the story of the Lytton Chinese History Museum and its founder.
The fourth episode of continues the Nlaka’pamux’ story of basket making through a discussion of the craft with basket makers Judy Hanna and Peter Sam, and their hopes for the continuation of basketry traditions in their community.
In this first episode of Archival Ecologies, Jayme Collins discusses the fallout of a devastating wildfire in a village in Lytton, British Columbia, in 2021 and interviews member of the community on the big questions that inspire and inflect the event.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Stephen J. Pyne is interviewed on his recent book, The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next.
The authors illuminate the power relations between state actors and the local people in accessing fuelwood in Zimbabwe, and how discourses of scarcity enhance these power dynamics.
This book packs into one slender volume a sweeping tale of fire, and humanity’s interactions with fire, from prehistory to the dawn of the twenty-first century.
Christine Hansen uses the concept of deep time to challenge the idea that never-before-witnessed events are unprecedented. Using the case of a massive firestorm in 2009 in southeast Australia, she calls into question the shallow temporal frames through which deep time environmental phenomena are understood in Australian settler culture and offers an insight into often unnoticed ways in which contemporary society struggles with the colonial legacy.