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Laleh Ahmad speaks with Banu Subramaniam about her recent book Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism. Their conversation explores how colonialism shaped botany and considers how we might imagine alternative futures. The post Botany’s Colonial Present and Alternative Futures: A Conversation with Banu Subramaniam appeared first on Edge Effects.

Artist Vick Quezada and evolutionary biologist Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra both center maíz in their work despite their very different approaches. Together with M. Hamilton Wilson, these scholars explore the co-evolution of humans and maiz (corn), through the lens of cultural history, art and performance, science, and language. The post Thinking with Maíz: A Conversation with Vick Quezada and Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra appeared first on Edge Effects.

M. Hamilton and Ellie Kincaid talk plants with Michael Marder. Their conversation invites readers to consider plants as active participants in thought and world‑making The post The Worlding Work of Plants: A Conversation with Michael Marder appeared first on Edge Effects.

Rebecca Laurent talks with Jim Endersby about his new book: The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology's Imaginary Futures, 1900-1935. They discuss how a failed scientific theory inspired public optimism for science, plants, and American imperialism. The post Biotopia, American Imperialism, and Science: A Conversation with Jim Endersby appeared first on Edge Effects.

Trish Fisher talks with Sonja Trom Eayrs about her new book: Dodge County, Incorporated: Big Ag and the Undoing of Rural America. They discuss factory farming, political intimidation, and the corporate transformation of rural America. The post The “Big Pig Pyramid” and the Undoing of Rural America: A Conversation with Sonja Trom Eayrs appeared first on Edge Effects.

Kayleigh Lobdell speaks with authors Jennifer Case and Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder about each of their recent books about human and beyond-human mothering in this political and ecological moment. The post Mothering in Times of Crisis: A Conversation with Jennifer Case and Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder appeared first on Edge Effects.

Ellie Kincaid and M Hamilton Wilson talk with Cleo Wölfle Hazard about his recent book, Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice. The post Trans Joy and Indigenous Resistance on the River: A Conversation with Cleo Wölfle Hazard appeared first on Edge Effects.

Nicolás Felipe Rueda speaks with Abby Reyes and Carolina Sarmiento about Indigenous cosmologies, environmental justice, and Abby's new memoir, Truth Demands: A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice. The post Cosmo-Visions of Truth After Violence: A Conversation with Abby Reyes and Carolina Sarmiento appeared first on Edge Effects.

Jen Rose Smith speaks with Hi'ilei Julia Hobart about her new book, Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic. They discuss the racial and colonial politics of the arctic and the political stakes of writing about Alaska as an Eyak scholar. The post The Colonial Politics of Arctic Landscapes: A Conversation with Jen Rose Smith appeared first on Edge Effects.

Alexander Menrisky speaks with Sarah Jaquette Ray about his recent book on the role of nonpartisan, everyday ecofascism in the U.S., from the nineteenth century to the present day. The post American Ecofascism: A Conversation with Alexander Menrisky appeared first on Edge Effects.