Sarli E. Mercado & Lori DiPrete Brown The 4W Women in Translation circle (4W WIT) is an engaged research effort that explores the meaning and practice of collective translation, It is inspired by experiences of collaboration related to literature and the arts, gender and wellbeing, and also community, urban sustainability and the environment, in particular, …
Will Baynard This past semester, after three years of coursework and preliminary research, I became a doctoral candidate in the UW–Madison Anthropology department. In my doctoral research, I explore concepts of sovereignty and governance expressed by members of the Tohono O’odham, an indigenous group with communities on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. My proposed …
Jean Vilbert Jean Vilbert is a master’s candidate (Latin American Studies) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and a lecturer in the UW Department of Political Science. He holds a MIPA and a Master’s in Law and served as a judge in Brazil, where he teaches Constitutional Law. Works Cited Brazil, Chamber of Deputies. Constitution of …
Micah McKay In an essay entitled “Nunca fue tan hermosa la basura,” Spanish philosopher José Luis Pardo makes a simple modification to the famous opening line of Karl Marx’s Capital—“The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as ‘an immense accumulation of commodities’” (41)—in a way that underlines …
Jorge Santander Existe en los estudios medievales una tendencia orientada hacia el estudio de los objetos y de las cosas (thing theory) y la materialidad. Dichos estudios consideran que los objetos y las cosas no son exclusivamente símbolos o significantes, sino que tienen la capacidad de actuar por sí mismos. Sostienen que los objetos pueden …
Nicki Day-Lucore For traveling scholars, the last two years have presented a paradox, as capacities for global contacts and connections have continued developing, even as COVID-19 greatly constrained physical travel. This contrast presents the opportunity to reflect on travel, in all its forms and flaws, as a research tool. Though perhaps more closely associated with …
Renata Pontes In this paper I analyze embodied experiences of Afro-Spiritual knowledge in Sirena Selena vestida de pena (Santos-Febres, 2000) and La mucama de Omicunlé (Indiana, 2015). Affirming the body and its potential, these literary works participate in “Black Atlantic” cultures and political economies—in transoceanic networks prompted by practices that claim African American traditions. Applying …
Ruth E. Goldstein In Peru’s biodiverse and mineral-rich Amazonian region of Madre de Dios there exists a rush for natural resources: gold, gas, and exotic plants and animals. Triangulated with the borders of Brazil and Bolivia, this southeastern zone of Peru has long been a site for human and environmental extraction. It bears the ironic …
Rachelle Wilson The meaning and function of work within many capitalist countries around the world has transformed radically in the 21st century. According to ecofeminist Yayo Herrero, during precapitalist times work used to encompass all the life-sustaining activities that protected the multispecies collective. Such activities centered around a gamut of labors of care: care for …
Eva Schlitz What do virtual reality and traditional shaman healing ceremonies have in common? At first glance, the connections are hard to see. My biomedical background had already sparked an interest in the developing field of virtual reality healthcare. That sensory exercises could be used to overload the nervous system and diminish chronic pain signals …