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Anarchist forms of organising and bayanihan (solidarity) in the face of a Philippine state of calamities
No full textKarin Louise Hermes is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences at Leibniz University, Germany. Her PhD dissertation, “Growing Intercommunalist ‘pockets of resistance’ with Aloha ‘ Aina in Hawai ‘ I” (Department of American Studies, Humboldt University, 2022) addresses how Indigenous resurgence grounded in land-based practices such as aloha ‘āina is central to dismantling settler colonial structures in Hawai‘i. 
The Cultural Politics of Sex, Race, Tourism, and Revolution in Cold War Cuban Anarchism, 1950-1961
No full textDr. Kirwin Shaffer is professor of Latin American Studies at The Pennsylvania State University—Berks College in Reading, Pennsylvania and a Penn State Alumni Association Teaching Fellow. He teaches courses on Latin American and Caribbean history, Latin American studies, the politics of terrorism, tyranny and freedom, global history, globalization, and global cinema. He writes on Caribbean history and the history of transnational anarchism and cultural politics in Latin America. Besides numerous journal articles and book chapters, he has published five books: A Transnational History of the Modern Caribbean: Popular Resistance across Borders (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), Anarchists of the Caribbean: Countercultural Politics and Transnational Networks in the Age of US Expansion (Cambridge University Press, 2020/2022), Anarchist Cuba: Countercultural Politics in the Early Twentieth Century (PM Press, 2019), In Defiance of Boundaries: Anarchism in Latin American History (University Press of Florida, 2015/2017) and co-edited with Geoffroy de Laforcade Black Flag Boricuas: Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico, 1897-1921 (University of Illinois Press, 2013/2020). His current projects include a book chapter-length biography of Cuban anarchist Marcelo Salinas and two book projects: The World through Anarchist Eyes: Latin American Anarchism and Global History and Feeding Rebellion, Cooking Up a Revolution: The Cultural Politics of Food, Drink, and Anarchist Culinary Workers in Latin America, 1900-1960
David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, London: Allen Lane, 2021
No full textUnderstory Biodiversity Plantings within Canopy Gaps in the King Creek Watershed of Haida Gwaii
No full textThis project involved understory plantings at five sites in canopy gaps created in a riparian spacing prescription in the upper Yakoun watershed of Haida Gwaii. Five species were selected as high potential for understory restoration (Highbush cranberry (Viburnum edule), Western yew (Taxus brevifolia), Pacific crabapple (Malus fusca), Devil\u27s club (Oplopanax horridus), Stink currant (Ribes bracteosum) based on three criteria (Haida cultural value, ability to reach free growing height (>1.5m), and berries used and dispersed by wildlife). If these species can become successfully established they may contribute to landscape level diversity through seed dispersal processes. A monitoring program was designed to measure the success of the understory plantings and to develop an understanding of natural revegetation of the shrub layer in canopy gaps. Canopy openness was measured with smartphone spherical photography at the centre of each gap to track changes in light availability in the gaps through time. This project aims to explore the opportunity created by canopy gaps to mitigate adverse impacts of introduced Sitka black tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus sitkensis) on understory richness, by expanding existing silviculture methods to include important understory species
Trialing Methods of Invasive Plant Suppression and Native Plant Establishment in Esquimalt Gorge Park, Victoria, BC: Gorge Waterway Nature House Pollinator Meadow Phase 2
No full textPollinator populations face threats from urbanization, making restoration essential for their survival in urban areas. This project aims increase pollinator presence by trialing different methods of invasive species suppression and native plant establishment in a series of test plots in Esquimalt Gorge Park, Victoria, B.C. This acts as Phase 2 of an existing pollinator meadow planted by the Gorge Waterway Action Society (GWAS) in 2020.Species coverage data was analyzed for Phase 1 of the Pollinator Meadow, along with moisture and light preferences. All test plots were analyzed for their hours and costs per square metre as well as their ratio of native to non-native species coverage to date. Phase 1 is currently the most cost-effective method used, likely due to the increased plot area which allowed resources to have a larger-scale impact. Sticky cinquefoil (Drymocallis glandulosa), woolly sunflower (Eriophyllum lanatum), entire-leaved gumweed (Grindelia stricta), hairy honeysuckle (Lonicera hispidula), Lewis’s mock-orange (Philadelphus lewisii), Pacific ninebark (Physocarpus capitatus), red-flowering currant (Ribes sanguineum), Nootka rose (Rosa nutkana), Henderson’s checker-mallow (Sidalcea hendersonii), and Douglas’ aster (Symphyotrichum subspicatum) increased in percent cover from 2021 to 2022. Yarrow (Achillea millefolium), self-heal (Prunella vulgaris), Western Canada goldenrod (Solidago lepida), and common snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus) also performed well. Entire-leaved gumweed (Grindelia stricta) was the highest performing species.Invasive species management techniques including mechanical methods, chemical methods, prescribed fire, and native seeding were analyzed for their applicability to the project site. Mechanical methods continue to be the most accessible and plausible management technique for the site, although it is recommended that they be scaled up and timed precisely to be more effective.Future data collection by GWAS summer students will continue to inform GWAS’s understanding of the most cost-effective and successful techniques used, as well as the species best suited to the site. A list of recommendations for future site management has been provided to GWAS
Lloyd Strickland and Harry Lewis, (Eds.), "Leibniz on Binary: The Invention of Computer Arithmetic"
No full textThis is a book review, which I promised to write for the PIR last month
