The Book of Feral Flora by Amanda Ackerman & Skeena by Sarah de Leeuw

Review of Amanda Ackerman\u27s The Book of Feral Flora. Review of Sarah de Leeuw\u27s Skeena

Sybil Unrest by Larissa Lai and Rita Wong

Review of Sybil Unrest by Larissa Lai and Rita Wong

Invasive Species by Claire Caldwell

A review of Claire Caldwell\u27s debut poetry collection, Invasive Species

Fire Sale

a poem

Small Fires by Kelly Norah Drukker

Review of Kelly Norah Drukker\u27s Small Fires

Caribou Run by Richard Kelly Kemick

Review of Richard Kelly Kemick\u27s Caribou Run

Together for development : collaborative partnerships between North American academics and civil society organizations working in global development

“The North-American Observatorio” project focuses on global commitments under Sustainable Development Goal 17. This report builds on previous efforts under the Next Generation initiative (carried out by the Canadian Council for International Co-operation) to identify and compile knowledge on collaborative partnerships in the Canadian context, asking whether similar trends can be seen across North America and whether differences between institutional environments affect the frequency and effectiveness of collaborative partnerships. The Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC) is Canada’s national coalition of civil society organizations (CSOs) working globally to achieve sustainable human development

Conflicted colonialisms: multi-dimensional violence in the Western Sahel

In October 2020, French-language media overflowed with coverage of the release of Sophie Pétronin, the last French hostage held overseas. Pétronin, a 75-year-old humanitarian worker, had been kidnapped in northern Mali nearly four years earlier and returned to France as a Muslim convert who challenged received ideas about security and terror, generating a violent backlash across French social media. She made headlines again a year later for her unlawful clandestine return to Mali. This article argues that the complex figure of Sophie Mariam Pétronin brings into focus the masculinised necropolitics of the Sahelian conflict, including the assumed privilege of white actors, hostility towards female involvement, and the ‘relations of enmity’ that Europe maintains with the racialised others of its former colonies

Material Modernities: Aluminum in the Making of a Global Cultural Economy

Although the human relationship with aluminum is short, the metal has affected our lives and societies more profoundly than perhaps any other. A light metal that does not corrode, aluminum is a key ingredient in airplanes, automobiles, and artillery—three industries that transformed twentieth-century society. As such, aluminum propelled Western modernity toward new understandings and cultural orientations within an increasingly globalized world. Yet as it became a defining ingredient of modernity, aluminum also helped entrench an unequal and racialized international order through extractive systems built on older infrastructures of exploitation. The aluminum supply chain that enabled twentieth-century modernity maps across an earlier transatlantic network that produced the enslaved human labor that was equally formative of our modern era. Racialized landscapes and labor at sites of raw aluminum ore extraction are central to Western modernity, though they are generally erased from its histories. Fully understanding Western industrial modernity requires centering the African lands and bodies that have shaped it, and correcting its destructive tendencies requires prioritizing alternative African visions