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How might overabundant ferns vitalize and pressure political ecologies of landscapes and wildlife conservation? This ethnographic article interrogates the relational worlds of humans, animals, and the fern species known as the ‘bracken fern’ (the Pteri…

Quantitative tools for evaluating energy justice allow users to make quickly comparisons across options. Most of these tools overrepresent distributional justice at the expense of other dimensions that are more difficult to measure (e.g., procedural, r…

On Taiwan’s outlying Kinmen Islands, otters have become vibrant inhabitants of the islands’ waterscape. As a critically endangered species found only in Kinmen within Taiwan’s territories, otters have emerged as an affective actor in shaping policies a…

This article develops the concept of energyscapes to examine the production, governance, and transformation of socio-material spaces for tar sands extraction, distribution, and consumption in Canada. We argue that energyscapes is a helpful concept to u…

In 1968 a group of nine U.S.-born Holdeman Mennonites purchased Cerrado land and later became some of the first farmers to produce high yields of corn and soybeans in Southwestern Goiás, Brazil. This article analyzes how Mennonite religion affects the …