Masters Thesis (click to access)
Research
POC Fungi Community | Centro Cultural de la Raza | The Mycelium Underground | Flora y Tierra
Huitlacoche
I have been working in collaboration with POC Fungi Community to develop research and decolonial education around Huitlacoche, a fungus that grows with and through corn.
My anthropological research around the fungus focuses on the political economic, material-semiotic, multispecies assemblages through which the fungus comes to transform and be transformed by others.
My anthropological research around the fungus focuses on the political economic, material-semiotic, multispecies assemblages through which the fungus comes to transform and be transformed by others.
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Branding Big Sur
My Master’s research focused on semiotic constructions of nature, ownership, and expertise in the unceded Esselen lands of Big Sur, California.
With this work I am broadly interested in how hegemonic narratives and ideologies about natural spaces get circulated, reinforced, and contested through processes of branding.
With this work I am broadly interested in how hegemonic narratives and ideologies about natural spaces get circulated, reinforced, and contested through processes of branding.
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in the usnea-covered redwood forests of Big Sur in early June
Usnea (the song) was born in this forest
Multispecies Songs:
Myco-attunements, music, and placemaking
I have been theorizing the methodological framework of Myco-attunements; multisensory attunements that we can cultivate and learn through building relationships with fungi.
Listen to/learn about an ongoing collaborative multispecies songs project here!
Listen to/learn about an ongoing collaborative multispecies songs project here!
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