Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Interpreters of Dreams in the Ecuadorian Amazon
By: Karla García During field research in Ecuador, the author encountered several practices that could be conceptualized as socio-ecological initiatives. One of them was dream interpretation at an environmental NGO, which did not represent a purely ancestral and established practice but rather a hybrid mechanism seeking to entangle different ontologies and hopes towards the land.…
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One-Planetary-Health: Reflections on Urban Novel Ecosystems in Bogotá and Copenhagen
Nordhavnstippen, a space for birds and ruderal nature, 2024. © Natalia Rodriguez-Castañeda. All rights reserved. by Natalia Rodriguez-Castañeda What do Los Cerros, Bogotá’s degraded peri-urban forested mountains, and Nordhavnstippen, Copenhagen’s abandoned post-industrial site with emerging ruderal vegetation, have in common? The two sites highlight the opportunities and challenges of embracing novel, ruderal, and spontaneous forms
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Fostering the Health of Humans and the Planet in a World of Many Worlds
By Carlos E. Sánchez Pimienta: Over the past two decades, there has been growing recognition among health professionals of the profound connection between human health and ecosystems. Historically, health was viewed as a condition of human bodies and minds, but recent crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic and extreme-weather events have prompted health professionals to…
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Food for an Abundant Future
By Pollyanna Rhee: “The future of farming. The future of food.” The website for Kernza® displays little modesty about its ambitions. It’s not a surprise that the producer of a good meant for the consumer market would be hyperbolic in their promises, but others have found the claim enticing. “Could Superwheat Kernza Save Our Soil?”…
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The Planetary as Embodied
By Misria Shaik Ali: Planetary health encompasses the interrelated health of human beings and natural systems. Planetary conceptualities, including that of planetary health, are presumed to require interventions at the scale of global systems as “the global” is frequently taken to proportionately represent the concomitant vastness of “the planetary.” In contrast, traces of planetary harm…
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Loss, Grief, and the Politics of Planetary Health
By Dylan M. Harris: Grief is inherently political. Death has a way of laying bare the unequal conditions of life, the very basis of politics. The vacuum of loss creates solidarity among those left to make sense of what has happened and what remains.1 Grief is necessarily relational, pulling together multiple lives and experiences, even…
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Who Is the Planetary Health Diet For?
By André Krebber and Nina Mackert: Food production is a central cause for global environmental degradation and change in ecosystems. In 2019 the EAT-Lancet Commission proposed a “Planetary Health Diet” that defined quantitative limits on food production to tackle this problem and advance both a healthy and ecologically sustainable food system. In this exploration, we…
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Careful Contemplations
By Tyanif Rico Rodríguez: An examination of contemplative care.
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Provocations of the Planetary: Ed Roberson’s Poetry of Scalar Disjunction
By Thomas Storey: The African American poet Ed Roberson’s (b. 1939) work engages with this incommensurability, this simultaneous continuity and discontinuity, by facing up to ways in which we are alienated from our planetary being. His poetry therefore offers a response to alterity, opacity, and the sublime realization of one’s place within a magnitude that…