Care in the Concrete: New Soil for the City
’This is a city saturated by concrete. Like most cities, Houston is composed of asphalt and concrete, plastic and steel, materials that provide the infrastructure for mobility (of cars, trains, trucks) and stability (for homes, office buildings, parking lots)…’
Engaged Buddhism: Meditation as Earthly Care in the Time of the Climate Crisis
’‘Care’ is an increasingly common point of discussion amongst anthropologists, feminists, and humanities scholars. For Joan Tronto and Berenice Fisher (1990, p. 40), care involves everything we do “to maintain, continue, and repair our ‘world’…That world includes our bodies, our selves, and our environment” which operates in “a complex, life-sustaining web”….’
Cultivating Care: Exploring Motivations and Temporalities in an Urban Gardening Community in Daejeon, South Korea
‘As urban populations across the globe continue to increase, the changing relationship of these dense populations to the land and food systems that sustain them demands urgent consideration…’
Youth at Climate COPs: an Exercise in (suboptimal) Planetary Care?
‘The 27th UN Climate Change Conference (COP 27), scheduled for November this year (2022) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, will be the first COP to feature a Children and Youth Pavilion. The pavilion will be large—250 square meters—and centrally located in the ‘Blue zone’, i.e., the area under UN jurisdiction where negotiations take place.’…’
Caring for Country: A Reciprocal Ecology of Care
‘In Australia, despite a long history of colonialism, First Nations communities are now increasingly involved in the development of nature-based solutions for ecological remediation and climate change mitigation often referred to under the rubric of ‘Caring for Country’…’
In Situ Conservation of Native Andean Potatoes, Involution and Care
‘The domestication and evolution of plants is too often discussed as a specific field within the purview of biology. Here I propose to lay the groundwork for an alternative narrative to this evolutionary perspective, which Hustak and Myers (2013) refer to as “involution.”…’
Lessons from Crossbones Graveyard: a more-than-individuated Ethics of Care
‘Tucked away along a medieval lane just south of London Bridge is a graveyard like no other in the city. On Redcross Way stands a towering rust-red iron gate, holding a mass of frayed, mildewed ribbons together as shrine…’
The Clash of Care Between Farm Workers and Landowners on Italian Lemon Farms
‘Amid a growing trend of transitioning to tropical-fruit farming in Sicily, I spent three months working at several lemon farms in order to investigate how farm workers perceive and converse about climate change. When I arrived in January 2019, it was surprisingly cold…’
Eat for change? Household Food Practices as Caring Practices Facing Climate Change
‘…This is the answer Martín, who is active in an urban garden in Berlin, gave us when asked whether or not he likes grocery shopping. The notion of being overwhelmed due to a mix of felt responsibility, demands and requirements facing climate change was something that we encountered numerous times in interviews…’
‘Picture in your mind a ripe watermelon, still on the vine, with bright green stripes on its skin, nestled among leaves on fragrant brown soil. You pick it up, slice it open, and take a bite, savouring the sweetness of the fruit as a little juice drips down your chin…’