Sugar plantations, Chemical Plants, COVID-19
The chemical plants in Cancer Alley are built where there once were sugar plantations. Descendants of enslaved communities still live nearby.
The chemical plants in Cancer Alley are built where there once were sugar plantations. Descendants of enslaved communities still live nearby.
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.
This video is for the conference on “Heath, Environment, and Education in Challenging Times” (2020). It is contributed by Mengyi Zhang and Louisa Hain.
On December 11, 2020, Tim Schütz and Jason Ludwig introduced the Quotidian Anthropocene project and a protoype of the Formosa Plastics Archive for master's students in the seminar "Data Natures" at
On October 29, 2020, Tim Schütz and Jason Ludwig introduced the Quotidian Anthropocenes project and a protoype of the Formosa Plastics Archive for participants in the seminar "Archiving" at online
Led by Kim Fortun and Scott Gabriel Knowles
Recording of a presentation for the public program of the online event The Shape of a Practice.
Looking back at 2020, COVID-19 unleashed a global pandemic that sweeps across the world. It was unexpected to see China emerging as a winner of this pandemic.