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Occurrence records and taxonomic voucher specimens for study of wild bee communities in early seral forests generated by wildfire, post-fire salvage logging, and intensive forest management in southwest Oregon
Get PDFEarly seral forests regenerating after stand-replacing disturbance events can provide important habitat for populations of wild bees, an important group of pollinating insects. However, variability in the abundance and diversity of wild bee communities across different types of early seral forests is poorly understood, and can inform pollinator conservation efforts and sustainable forest management practices. In this study, we compared wild bee assemblages from early seral forests regenerating from three widespread stand-replacing disturbances across a gradient in stand ages in the Klamath Ecoregion of southwest Oregon using blue vane traps. Here, we present occurrence data for each bee specimen observed in the study, including voucher specimens deposited to the Oregon State Arthropod Collectio
Artificial Pearl Making: Employment for Women
No full textThis item appeared in the January 1871 issue of Godey’s Lady’s Book and Magazine (Vol. 82, No. 487, pp. 65-67), published in Philadelphia. It provides a relatively detailed description of the production of faux pearls as practiced in France, highlighting the role women played in their creation
As the Bodies Pile Up, or What is Political Literature Today?
Get PDFPoetics are the ancestral reparation, an ancient redress for all the destruction our technologies of power have created. The politics of literature today must experiment with the position of enunciation, affirming a position-in-the-world while radically avoiding the risk of reducing that creative position to a label, to a superficial gesture, to a stable “identity.” Political Literature today remakes the position of literature in the world (the desk, the ink, the paper), in order to build with the new spoils of catastrophe that keep growing all around us. The great challenge of political literature today is to create the wildest poetics with the rubbles of the dying worlds as a medium
An Aesthetics of Resistance: Voluspa Jarpa’s Necroarchivos
Get PDFVoluspa Jarpa’s installation Judd Shaft (2016–present) exposes declassified documents from the CIA to create what I term “necroarchivos.” Defined as contemporary artworks that highlight information previously lost, hidden, or manipulated, the necroarchivos resist “necropolitics,” or what Achille Mbembe defines as a politics of life and death; to present fragmented narratives, question official rhetoric, and (re)create histories, while advocating for collective memories. Under this conceptual framework, the artwork not only reveals violence but condemns aggressions against bodies and challenges their expendability. Against the current proliferation of authoritarianism and dictatorial regimes, art plays a critical role in alerting viewers of the tragic consequences of repressive governments. The artwork becomes a departure point to challenging the political and social sphere, create consciousness, and incite civic engagement. By conducting direct object study, interviewing the artist, and incorporating an interdisciplinary methodology, I map Jarpa’s aesthetics of resistance and her dialogue with archival art and a constellation of artworks to present the (in)accessibility of information and contest myriad disciplinary fields including history, politics, and art itself. I argue Jarpa’s necroarchivos comment on the (in)visibility of diverse power structures and their secrecy, “la imposibilidad de la lectura,” to register a counter history and contest the violence of the state apparatus
Keep the Silence from Speaking Poetry by Hubert Matiúwàa and Martín Tonalmeyotl as Ritual Responses to Drug Violence
Get PDFThis article argues that recent poetry collections by two poets from the Mexican state of Guerrero, the Mè’phàà poet Hubert Matiúwàa’s (1986) and the Nahua poet Martín Tonalmeyotl (1983) respond to the violence of the ongoing drug war in México by mobilizing Indigenous ritual textualities. In doing so, both Matiúwàa’s Xtámbaa/Piel de Tierra (2016), literally “earthen skin,” and Tonalmeyotl’s Tlalkatsajtsilistle/ Ritual de los olvidados (2016) leverage Indigenous epistemological practices as a way to alter reality. This analysis not only aligns their respective projects with longstanding Indigenous language practices in Mesoamerica and elsewhere, but also situates them within broader contemporary Indigenous movements, in which Indigenous authors use their ostensibly literary texts to intervene directly in the world of the reader
Improvising Kanak Sprak: Feridun Zaimoğlu’s Freestyle Forms and the Politics of Belonging
Get PDFPublic discourse often excludes the erroneous speech of migratory subjects, thus foreclosing social and political rapprochement. This paper argues that the position outside of pregiven, linguistic norms provides migratory speech with an improvisatory quality that can serve as a catalyst for community formation. Simulating freestyle forms in writing, Feridun Zaimoğlu’s Kanak Sprak seeks to find a new language for the critique of xenophobia and to establish belonging based on precarious conditions. In a close reading of Fikret’s monologue “Pity is that true vitamin,” I show how improvisation disrupts established discourses and transforms the meaning of conventional hate speech tropes to forge transethnic alliances. The paper then turns to the subsequent volume Koppstoff and problematizes the commodification of Kanak speech in neoliberal pop culture. Çağıl’s monologue “If you’re smart, you take our side” hints at a different understanding of improvisation that reframes the relation between mainstream society and its others. Drawing on critical improvisation studies, the paper contributes to the understanding of linguistic interventions into social orders that determine who can say what, in which speech form, and according to which norms of belonging