Lithuania
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“How Does Your Tongue Even Lift to Hustle Me Along!”: Care and Surveillance in the Lithuanian Borderland
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 meet the mushrooms that want to locate her. Lithuania, like its neighbors Latvia and Poland, created special defense zones at their borders with Belarus beginning…
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Making Tracks: Diana Mincyte
In the “Making Tracks” series, RCC fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center. For more information, please click here. By Diana Mincyte My earliest encounters with “non-human” nature were those of gardening. Like many others in the socialist world, my parents had…