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Notes and reports from travels, field studies, and conferences

“How Does Your Tongue Even Lift to Hustle Me Along!”: Care and Surveillance in the Lithuanian Borderland

27 April 2026

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By Eunice Blavascunas: “I do not find the mushrooms. The mushrooms find me!” And with this declaration 82-year-old Zinaida justifies breaking the rules.1 She enters the forest commons–turned–military-exclusion zone to…
Interpreters of Dreams in the Ecuadorian Amazon

3 March 2026

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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,…

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