Sublime

She suggests that global Greenspeak about biodiversity, ozone depletion, etc., has erased the local from environmental concerns by suggesting that the solution can only be global.

Ingratiating landlords, assembling their Indian laborers days in advance of his arrival, frequently greeted him with noisy celebrations. At each village Ubico would pause long enough to adjudicate intricate legal cases, fire judges, reverse decisions, release certain prisoners, and sentence others to jail. He believed nothing was beyond his

There is an unspoken understanding of loss here in Jamaica, where everything comes with a rude bargain – that being citizens of a ‘developing nation’, we are born already expecting to live a secondhand life, and to enjoy it. But there is hope, too, in our scarcity, tolerable because it keeps us constantly reaching for something better.

Putting Native Americans back in the picture meant radically redefining what nature means and what the human place in it might be (another undoing of a dichotomy, the nature–culture divide, with profound implications for the environmental movement, which has not yet altogether come to terms with this revision of meaning).

In Argentina, which since December 2001 has had a severe economic crisis and an inspired rise of neighborhood and community groups to replace failed institutions, it’s called horizontalidad, or horizontality. Perhaps it’s all just democracy at its most potent.

it’s not possible to affirm the boundary between inside and out. An ecosystems fiction would be a fiction of (new) weirdness, in that it destabilizes what is known and what is knowable, and it may also be eerie, in that no single human actor or conspiracy of actors is the cause for the world’s effects. Ecosystems fiction might account for the