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Space/Time and Plants Research

September 1, 2022 at 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Faculty-led

This research showcases the creative component of a student’s (Clarissa Shane) senior thesis. She traveled to Paredones, Michoacán, Mexico to map out how human-nonhuman relationships shape the community of her ancestral village and how they are influenced by variously scaled forces of capitalism, climate change, and migration. The project involves the collection of plants, archival research in herbaria, and video-recorded interviews with Paredones inhabitants. One of the project goals was to document and archive human-nonhuman interactions in Paredones, at a time when the area’s biodiversity is substantially affected and fast changing by the combined forces of industrial agriculture, climate change, and migration to the US. The outcomes of this mixed-methods ethnography were presented on BCB campus in the form of an installation and a foraging action.