The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini, ed. Stephen Sartarelli (University of Chicago Press, 2014), 22.
“The first recorded reference to okra was made by the Egyptians in 1216 AD, although the plant explorer Vavilov indicated that there was strong evidence that the crop flourished even before that date in the tropical climate of Ethiopia, while others have identified its origin as India.” William James Lamont, Jr., “Okra—A Versatile Vegetable Crop,” HortTechnology 9, no. 2 (April–June 1999).
James C. Scott, Against the Grain: A Deep History of Earliest States (Yale University Press, 2017).
Pelin Tan, “The Care of Seed,” MOLD Magazine, no. 5 (Winter 2021).
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Donna Haraway proposes the term “Chthulucene” to replace “Anthropocene” in order “to renew the biodiverse power of terra is the sympoietic work and play of the Chthulucene.” The latter is an epoch “made up of ongoing multi-species stories and practices of becoming-with in the times that remain at stake, in precarious times, in which the world is not finished and the sky has not fallen—yet.” Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Duke University Press, 2016), 55.
Teosintes are a group of wild grasses that are believed to be the progenitor of corn. Yoshino’s seed archive includes sunflower seeds from the Arikara Tribe (North Dakota), squash seeds from the Miami Tribe (North-Central Indiana), and mother corn seeds (Dakota flint corn). Bard Farm collaborates with Ken Greene (founder of Hudson Valley Seed Library, the United States’s first public seed catalog) and Vivien Sansour in supporting the exchange of seeds as well as disseminating ancestral knowledge.
Pelin Tan and Zeynep S.Akıncı, “Waterdams as Dispossession: Ecology, Security, Colonization,” in Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary, ed. James Graham (Lars Muller Publishers, 2016).
In Kurmanji: “water, fire, earth, wind, sun).”
Kızılca Yurur, “How Gezhemgen, the Oak Manna, Has Been Forgotten in Dersim (Tunceli) in the Upper Euphrates Basin: Extractive Capitalism and Local Knowledge,” Journal of Political Ecology 28, no. 1 (2021).
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Scott, Against the Grain, 11, 128.
Jumana Manna, “Where Nature Ends and Settlements Begin,” e-flux journal, no. 113 (November 2020) →.