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Mutual Aid/Best Practices vs Local Practices

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This image reminds me of how mutual aid and communities keep each other fed, and safe, and how local practices are actually best practices. My own research, although not immediatley related to the specific public health concern of COVID, will focus on Indigenous food soverignty, particularly the right and autonomy to ferment and distribute alcohol (紅糯米酒) within the Amis community, and their current fight with the local health department on declaring whether or not their alcohol is "safe" for public consumption and distribution.

River Engineering

Guil22

Dam construction along both the Missippi River, and the Artibonite Rivers have called into question corporate interests, vernacular responses, and the future of the communities that are supported by these ecosystems ( humans and nonhuman alike). Infrastructure for who? becomes a very important question that this project will examine.

 

Links

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2010/11/21/a_dam_for_the_people_and_a_people_damned.html

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2018/06/01/critical-mississippi-river-lock-and-dam-system-crumbling/573693002/

https://www.minnehahacreek.org/sites/minnehahacreek.org/files/pdfs/projects/Ecological%20Effects%20of%20Dams%20July2013.pdf



River Engineering

Guil22

Dam construction along both the Missippi River, and the Artibonite Rivers have called into question corporate interests, vernacular responses, and the future of the communities that are supported by these ecosystems ( humans and nonhuman alike). Infrastructure for who? becomes a very important question that this project will examine.

 

Links

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2010/11/21/a_dam_for_the_people_and_a_people_damned.html

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2018/06/01/critical-mississippi-river-lock-and-dam-system-crumbling/573693002/

https://www.minnehahacreek.org/sites/minnehahacreek.org/files/pdfs/projects/Ecological%20Effects%20of%20Dams%20July2013.pdf