Edge Effects
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A digital magazine + podcast on culture, history, and environment
📍 University of Wisconsin-Madison
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📍 University of Wisconsin-Madison
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We're so excited to welcome four graduate students to our editorial board this semester: Anupama Kumar (Sociology), Clare Michaud (Environmental Studies), Khanh Nguyen (English), and Tomás Ignacio Pino Flores (History). All are brilliant scholars, excellent editors, and great people. 🌞 ❤️
Meet the Edge Effects Editorial Board - Edge Effects
The Edge Effects editorial board is composed of eight to ten CHE graduate student editors, one graduate student Managing Editor, and one faculty adviser.
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February 12, 2026 at 6:03 PM
We're so excited to welcome four graduate students to our editorial board this semester: Anupama Kumar (Sociology), Clare Michaud (Environmental Studies), Khanh Nguyen (English), and Tomás Ignacio Pino Flores (History). All are brilliant scholars, excellent editors, and great people. 🌞 ❤️
Today on Edge Effects, we take our first dive into Botanical Imaginations with our Spring 2026 Faculty Favorites! Faculty across academic disciplines recommend plant-y books and poems they're excited to read/teach this semester 🌿 📖
Faculty Favorites: Critical Interventions in the Plant Humanities - Edge Effects
Faculty recommend their favorite books and poems at the intersection of plants and the environmental humanities
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February 5, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Today on Edge Effects, we take our first dive into Botanical Imaginations with our Spring 2026 Faculty Favorites! Faculty across academic disciplines recommend plant-y books and poems they're excited to read/teach this semester 🌿 📖
Los "Guerreros de los Drones" utilizaron la fotografía con drones como forma de protesta contra el oleoducto Dakota Access. La exposición de Adrienne Keene y Gregory Hitch destaca su trabajo. Hoy, en la sección "Translation Tuesday" de Edge Effects, Cindia Arango López nos presenta la traducción. ✊📹
Guerreros de Drones: El Arte de la Vigilancia y la Resistencia en Standing Rock - Edge Effects
Como parte del movimiento de los Protectores del Agua contra el oleoducto Dakota Access, los Guerreros de Drones utilizan la fotografía con drones como una forma de protesta.
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February 3, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Los "Guerreros de los Drones" utilizaron la fotografía con drones como forma de protesta contra el oleoducto Dakota Access. La exposición de Adrienne Keene y Gregory Hitch destaca su trabajo. Hoy, en la sección "Translation Tuesday" de Edge Effects, Cindia Arango López nos presenta la traducción. ✊📹
After the Great Woolsey Fire in the Santa Monica Mountains, researchers placed trail cameras to observe the return of wildlife. Chase A. Niesner composed and performed “Signs of Life” from the images captured. Today on Edge Effects, he reflects on this great return. 🔥🎥
Camera Trap Poetics - Edge Effects
A compilation of trail cam footage after the Woolsey Fire, Signs of Life documents the return of wildlife to the mountains—and so much more.
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January 29, 2026 at 5:38 PM
After the Great Woolsey Fire in the Santa Monica Mountains, researchers placed trail cameras to observe the return of wildlife. Chase A. Niesner composed and performed “Signs of Life” from the images captured. Today on Edge Effects, he reflects on this great return. 🔥🎥
Today on the Edge Effects podcast, we're so excited to welcome back Jen Rose Smith (@sprucehen.bsky.social) and Hi'ielie Julia Hobart to discuss Jen's new book: Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic. 🧊❄️
The Colonial Politics of Arctic Landscapes
Jen Rose Smith talks about her new book, Ice Geographies, and the racial and colonial politics of Arctic landscapes.
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January 27, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Today on the Edge Effects podcast, we're so excited to welcome back Jen Rose Smith (@sprucehen.bsky.social) and Hi'ielie Julia Hobart to discuss Jen's new book: Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic. 🧊❄️
Today on Edge Effects, Jens Benöhr, Constanza López, and Kara Lena Virik document how scientific plant names root botanical knowledge in colonial relationships. To decolonize ecology, we must embrace the pluriverse of knowing, naming, and living with the world. 🌳🔬
Plants By Any Other Name - Edge Effects
"Nothofagus," like other scientific plant names, root botanical knowledge in colonial relationships. "Native names" contain other truths.
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January 22, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Today on Edge Effects, Jens Benöhr, Constanza López, and Kara Lena Virik document how scientific plant names root botanical knowledge in colonial relationships. To decolonize ecology, we must embrace the pluriverse of knowing, naming, and living with the world. 🌳🔬
Today on Edge Effects, Mohammed Labeeb rides the Western Ghats on motorcycle, reading the terrain with his body. His landslide research traces the history of the landscape and probes knowledge production, methodology, and proximity in a shifting terrain. 🏍️🗻
Learning to Ride a Landslide
The motorcycle is an unlikely methodological companion in Mohammed Labeeb's landslide research in the Western Ghats.
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January 15, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Today on Edge Effects, Mohammed Labeeb rides the Western Ghats on motorcycle, reading the terrain with his body. His landslide research traces the history of the landscape and probes knowledge production, methodology, and proximity in a shifting terrain. 🏍️🗻
Muse or artist? Today on Edge Effects, Rae Ferner Rose uses wildlife photography as a lens into nonhuman agency. Examining snapshots of bowerbirds and pufferfish nests, Rae presents wildlife photography as a collaborative craft between “wildlife” and photographer. 🐡 📷
Sticks, Stones, and Nested Agency in Wildlife Photography - Edge Effects
Photos of bowerbird and pufferfish nests attest to the artistic collaboration of "wildlife" with photographers in wildlife photography.
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January 8, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Muse or artist? Today on Edge Effects, Rae Ferner Rose uses wildlife photography as a lens into nonhuman agency. Examining snapshots of bowerbirds and pufferfish nests, Rae presents wildlife photography as a collaborative craft between “wildlife” and photographer. 🐡 📷
Hace 12 años, William Cronon, nuestro estimado mentor, escribió nuestro primer ensayo. Hasta el día de hoy, nuestra publicación es el resultado de esos puntos de encuentro, donde convergen hábitats, culturas y tradiciones intelectuales. ¡Disfruten de su explicación en español! 🧗🔥
¿Por qué Edge Effects? - Edge Effects
¿Qué hay en un nombre? Los efectos de borde en la historia de la ecología, la geografía de Wisconsin y valores interdisciplinarios.
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January 6, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Hace 12 años, William Cronon, nuestro estimado mentor, escribió nuestro primer ensayo. Hasta el día de hoy, nuestra publicación es el resultado de esos puntos de encuentro, donde convergen hábitats, culturas y tradiciones intelectuales. ¡Disfruten de su explicación en español! 🧗🔥
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Botanically curious? Imaginative? Edge Effects @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social seeks submissions to diversify, complicate, and proliferate Botanical Imaginations at the intersection of humanities and social and natural sciences across cultures, ages, and time. For more: edgeeffects.net/botanical-im...
Call for Submissions: "Botanical Imaginations" - Edge Effects
Edge Effects invites submissions for that explore our complex relationship to plants and proliferate botanical imaginations.
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January 2, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Botanically curious? Imaginative? Edge Effects @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social seeks submissions to diversify, complicate, and proliferate Botanical Imaginations at the intersection of humanities and social and natural sciences across cultures, ages, and time. For more: edgeeffects.net/botanical-im...
Today on Edge Effects, Allen Myers photographs migrant laborers in northern California as they navigate local ecologies and global economies. In this volatile (political) climate, wild Christmas tree harvest is more precarious than ever. 🎄❄️
Precarity and Entanglement in the Wild Christmas Tree Harvest - Edge Effects
Wild Christmas tree harvest requires a precarious relationship between local ecologies, skilled migrant laborers, and global economies.
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December 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Today on Edge Effects, Allen Myers photographs migrant laborers in northern California as they navigate local ecologies and global economies. In this volatile (political) climate, wild Christmas tree harvest is more precarious than ever. 🎄❄️
2025 was a year of art, multispecies relationalities, and community at Edge Effects. Thank you to the artists, scholars, and activists who have joined us in conversation, collaboration, and translation.
Here are just a few of our favorites from the year! 🌼 🍾
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Here are just a few of our favorites from the year! 🌼 🍾
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2025 Year In Review - Edge Effects
Edge Effects editors reflect on the year 2025 and recommend their favorite articles, podcasts, and exhibits.
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December 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
2025 was a year of art, multispecies relationalities, and community at Edge Effects. Thank you to the artists, scholars, and activists who have joined us in conversation, collaboration, and translation.
Here are just a few of our favorites from the year! 🌼 🍾
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Here are just a few of our favorites from the year! 🌼 🍾
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Today on Edge Effects, Tomasz Falkowski takes a closer look at the ethics guiding outdoor recreation and the traces we leave. By focusing on individual hikers and ignoring the impact of the outdoor recreation economy, he argues, the "Leave No Trace" principles miss the forest for the trees. 🥾 ⛺
Unpacking Leave No Trace and the Footprint of Outdoor Recreation
The principles of Leave No Trace are ill-fitted to the global supply chains and macro environmental issues of the twenty-first century.
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December 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Today on Edge Effects, Tomasz Falkowski takes a closer look at the ethics guiding outdoor recreation and the traces we leave. By focusing on individual hikers and ignoring the impact of the outdoor recreation economy, he argues, the "Leave No Trace" principles miss the forest for the trees. 🥾 ⛺
PLEASE SHARE: Edge Effects is delighted to announce the theme for our 2026 special series: Botanical Imaginations! Drafts are due February 15, 2026. Everyone is welcome to submit! Read more & apply: edgeeffects.net/botanical-im... 🌱🌳🌾🌴🌵🌻
December 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
PLEASE SHARE: Edge Effects is delighted to announce the theme for our 2026 special series: Botanical Imaginations! Drafts are due February 15, 2026. Everyone is welcome to submit! Read more & apply: edgeeffects.net/botanical-im... 🌱🌳🌾🌴🌵🌻
Today on the Edge Effects podcast, Alexander Menrisky speaks with @sarahjaquetteray.bsky.social about his recent book, Everyday Ecofascism: Crisis and Consumption in American Literature. They discuss how consumption is tied to national identity and how ecofascism lurks in the everyday. 🇺🇸 🌳
American Ecofascism: A Conversation with Alexander Menrisky - Edge Effects
Alexander Menrisky speaks about his new book, Everyday Ecofascism: Crisis and Consumption in American Literature.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Today on the Edge Effects podcast, Alexander Menrisky speaks with @sarahjaquetteray.bsky.social about his recent book, Everyday Ecofascism: Crisis and Consumption in American Literature. They discuss how consumption is tied to national identity and how ecofascism lurks in the everyday. 🇺🇸 🌳
Today on Edge Effects, @trangdang.bsky.social develops an ethics of care for pangolins, despite living a world away. Her “respectful distance” is a form of companionship rooted in humility, one that acknowledges interdependence without claiming possession and embraces intimacy without proximity. 🦔 🦡
Conservation Is a Long Distance Relationship
Physical distance can be crucial for responsible kinship, conservation, and care. Pangolin conservation is perhaps best from a world away.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Today on Edge Effects, @trangdang.bsky.social develops an ethics of care for pangolins, despite living a world away. Her “respectful distance” is a form of companionship rooted in humility, one that acknowledges interdependence without claiming possession and embraces intimacy without proximity. 🦔 🦡
Hoy en Edge Effects Translation Tuesday, Christina Guevara y Rae Jing Han se inspiran en prácticas ancestrales filipinas y chinas para desarrollar rituales colectivos que permitan abordar el duelo ecológico. Estas prácticas, argumentan, son una resistencia que afirma la vida. 🌏 ❤️
Navegando el Eco-Duelo con Prácticas Ancestrales del Duelo - Edge Effects
Guevara Han y Rae Jing Han recurren a prácticas ancestrales filipinas y chinas para afrontar el duelo ecológico.
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December 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Hoy en Edge Effects Translation Tuesday, Christina Guevara y Rae Jing Han se inspiran en prácticas ancestrales filipinas y chinas para desarrollar rituales colectivos que permitan abordar el duelo ecológico. Estas prácticas, argumentan, son una resistencia que afirma la vida. 🌏 ❤️
Today on Edge Effects, Dongbay shares his exhibit, Synthetic Totems. "Creating in this state is not about seeking escape or repair, but about consciously dwelling within our shared pollution, tracing the strange beauty that still exists in death." ♻️ 🎨
Synthetic Totems: Art for the Anthropocene
Dongbay's "Synthetic Totems" combines fragments of nature with synthetic waste to spark reflection and connection in the Anthropocene.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Today on Edge Effects, Dongbay shares his exhibit, Synthetic Totems. "Creating in this state is not about seeking escape or repair, but about consciously dwelling within our shared pollution, tracing the strange beauty that still exists in death." ♻️ 🎨
Today on Edge Effects, @jensbenohr.bsky.social follows the wandering of nalca across continents in this thoughtful meditation on migration, belonging, and the porous borders between human and plant life. The world is a garden of migrants, he argues, of both plants and people. 🌿 🧳
Vegetal Diaspora and the Restless Life of Plants - Edge Effects
Conceptualizing plants as migrants with their own diasporas reveals their connection to imperialism and encourages an ethic of care.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Today on Edge Effects, @jensbenohr.bsky.social follows the wandering of nalca across continents in this thoughtful meditation on migration, belonging, and the porous borders between human and plant life. The world is a garden of migrants, he argues, of both plants and people. 🌿 🧳
Today on Edge Effects, Richard Watts, Maureen Ryan, and Danny Hoffman wade through the queer ecology and relations that characterize wetlands, shaped as they are by precarity and survivance. With clips from their forthcoming documentary, they take us to the Tambass wetlands of Mauritania. 🐊 🏳️🌈
What Can Wetlands Teach Us About Queer Relations?
The Tambass wetlands showcase the queer ecology and relations that characterize wetlands, shaped as they are by precarity and impermanence.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Today on Edge Effects, Richard Watts, Maureen Ryan, and Danny Hoffman wade through the queer ecology and relations that characterize wetlands, shaped as they are by precarity and survivance. With clips from their forthcoming documentary, they take us to the Tambass wetlands of Mauritania. 🐊 🏳️🌈
Today on Edge Effects, Joseph Leidy deciphers the cacophany of African grey parrot voices on Arab social media, from faithful recitations of the Quran to antagonistic banter. The parrots, he argues, speak to autonomy and play in multispecies companionships. 🗣️ 🦜
Parrots at Play in the Arab Soundscape - Edge Effects
The voices of African grey parrots on Arab social media speak to the birds' autonomy and the complex dynamics of multispecies companionship.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Today on Edge Effects, Joseph Leidy deciphers the cacophany of African grey parrot voices on Arab social media, from faithful recitations of the Quran to antagonistic banter. The parrots, he argues, speak to autonomy and play in multispecies companionships. 🗣️ 🦜
Hoy en Edge Effects Translation Tuesday, @katherinecheung.bsky.social reflexiona sobre la “Ceguera Vegetal”. Cheung sugiere que las artes escénicas podrían ser justamente lo que necesitamos para desacelerar un poco y comenzar a apreciar la vida vegetal que nos rodea. 👓 🌱
Ceguera Vegetal y 'Viendo' las Escalas Temporales de las Plantas
Katherine Cheung analiza nuestra ceguera hacia las plantas, la atribución de mente vegetal y el rol de las artes performativas en la comprensión de las escalas temporales de las plantas.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Hoy en Edge Effects Translation Tuesday, @katherinecheung.bsky.social reflexiona sobre la “Ceguera Vegetal”. Cheung sugiere que las artes escénicas podrían ser justamente lo que necesitamos para desacelerar un poco y comenzar a apreciar la vida vegetal que nos rodea. 👓 🌱
Today on Edge Effects, @natmesnard.bsky.social reflects on their new table top role-playing game Assemblages: the strange creatures players create for its imaginary multispecies universe and the meditation they elicit on extinction, grief, and collaborative, queer survival in the Anthropocene. ♟️🍄
Role-Playing Queer Assemblages Amidst Capitalist Ruins - Edge Effects
Ecologically inspired role-playing game Assemblages is a meditation on extinction, grief, and collaborative, queer survival.
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October 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Today on Edge Effects, @natmesnard.bsky.social reflects on their new table top role-playing game Assemblages: the strange creatures players create for its imaginary multispecies universe and the meditation they elicit on extinction, grief, and collaborative, queer survival in the Anthropocene. ♟️🍄
Today on Edge Effects, Anya Kaplan-Harnett imagines the future from the perspective of a wind turbine. From its high vantage point over rural Illinois, the turbine bears witness to centuries of ecological and social change. 🪁🕰
Wind Turbine Elegy
An elegiac poem from the perspective of a wind turbine at Zumwalt Acres, a regenerative farm in rural Illinois.
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October 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Today on Edge Effects, Anya Kaplan-Harnett imagines the future from the perspective of a wind turbine. From its high vantage point over rural Illinois, the turbine bears witness to centuries of ecological and social change. 🪁🕰
Today on Edge Effects, Anissa Bejaoui peers into the smudged lens through which many of us see the multispecies world. The insect carcasses of windshield graveyards have a lot to tell us about the politics of care, the ethics of knowledge production, and the praxis of conservation. 🪰🧡
Squished Bugs and the Sticky Questions of Fieldwork - Edge Effects
Squished bugs tell us about the ethics and praxis of producing knowledge and imagining alternative multispecies relations.
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October 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Today on Edge Effects, Anissa Bejaoui peers into the smudged lens through which many of us see the multispecies world. The insect carcasses of windshield graveyards have a lot to tell us about the politics of care, the ethics of knowledge production, and the praxis of conservation. 🪰🧡