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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 388–406.
Published: 01 November 2022
.... These networks include everyone from ambitious metropolitan mayors, to forest therapy entrepreneurs, to environmental activists, to bio-architects, academic psychologists, and neuroscientists. My goal is to describe the cultural and spatial imaginary of this network and to make sense of some of the assumptions...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 353–373.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Pujita Guha Abstract In 1968 the American military launched Operation Igloo White (OIW), seeding the mountainous forests of the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos and Vietnam with a network of seismic, olfactory, and auditory sensors that picked up and relayed signals to data bunkers in Thailand where enemy...
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 2 Phaew points out the dense and shaded forest managed by the state and the farmed barren land managed and tilled by Indigenous groups. More
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 6 Hand-drawn copy of the Coffee and Forest Arrangement Experimental Plot Chart. More
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 17 Waew showing how the Sirinya Coffee house has been foresting their land over the last few years. She pulled these images from Sirinya Coffee's Facebook page. More
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (2): 195–218.
Published: 01 July 2024
... analyzes the significance of trees to Mutu's project of dismantling the human. Drawing from critical plant studies, forest ecology, cultural anthropology, and the mycological turn, it argues that Mutu's artworks forcefully reclaim the nonhuman as a site of Black expressive culture. These artworks blur...
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 16 Fertilizer bags, insecticide and pesticide signboards, and canisters make for common everyday sights and signs dotting the forested hills. Farmers claim to use fertilizers, while abstaining from more harmful pesticides and insecticides. And yet, used domestic insecticide spray cans dot More
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 8 Phaew's coffee farm. One can spot the coffee tree in the right foreground, in what is quite an unkempt, forested agro-forestry space. More
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 1 Pangkhon Valley. Standing at a cafe overlooking the valley, Lee points to the far distance where military outposts and forest lands are managed by Thailand's Forestry Department; in the foreground, the thinning bare land of the coffee farms is hard to miss. More
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 11 Shade is a necessary but scarce resource. To meet the financial needs of transitioning into coffee production, coffee farm owners have historically converted shaded, forested areas into open-air coffee plantations to maximize space for coffee shrubs. More recently, however, cultivators More
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 374–391.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Figure 2 Phaew points out the dense and shaded forest managed by the state and the farmed barren land managed and tilled by Indigenous groups. ...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 191–193.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., the book effectively achieves its objective, casting illumination on the pivotal role played by nonhuman entities in the formation of a living territory. However, this endeavor merely represents the incipient exploration of relational existence on unstable terrains. It is not that the forests have run amok...
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figures 12 and 13 Fertilizer bags are commonplace in coffee farms in Pangkhon. Used to store fertilizer-fed coffee beans or as stray mats during a lunch meal, these bags populate the forested farm space. Most farmers used the 15-15-15 formula fertilizers, which have an equal ratio of nitrogen More
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (1): 128–147.
Published: 01 March 2023
... uninhabitable. Trees also populate our imagination. Many of us first become interested in trees through legends and traditional stories. Forests loom large in European folklore, whether as dark and fearful places, magical wonderlands, or safe havens. They are almost always figured as sites of human...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (1): 57–76.
Published: 01 March 2023
... existing there is fundamental when developing a framework of ethical and political relationships between Indigenous peoples, their territories, and the state, as well as mainstream society. Indeed, the disappearance of the spiritual guardians of forests and rivers says as much about the world itself...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 92–111.
Published: 01 March 2024
... that is still in use and requires nearly forty people to operate, brought a torch to set fire to the forces of evil, symbolically cleansing the space and making way for the regenerative power of life (P. Schumann 2013 ). As audience members wait at the edge of the pine forest, both entertained and held...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (1): 100–122.
Published: 01 March 2008
... Heidegger’s Hut is a well-illustrated biographical and architectural study, concerning Martin Heidegger’s famous mountain ski hut above the village of Todtnauberg in the Black Forest. Architecturally the hut is of significance only in that it was the site of the genesis and composition of a distinctive...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 123–131.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Alexander E. Hooke Part 6, “Irrevocable,” begins with a striking chapter, “The Babies in Trees.” Walking amid woods, jungles, and forests, Lingis marvels at the majestic powers of trees. Many, like the sequoias, contain their own little ecosystems. They have provided shelter and food to all...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (1): 39–56.
Published: 01 March 2023
... much to bear. Chris Dickman of the University of Sydney calculated that over three billion vertebrates had lost their lives in the inferno (Readfern and Morton 2020 ). Over one-third of Australia's native forests were burned to cinders (Werner and Lyons 2020 ). Many more dead critters and organisms...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 395–406.
Published: 01 November 2015
... pieces of flesh in the real in order to turn into pure information in the symbolic. On the eve of the decisive battle, part of the corpse is resurrected as Woman or Mother. In the middle of the Teutoburg Forest, Varus encounters a ghostly apparition who, as the “Ancient Mother of Cherusca” (90: 1950...