Grasping Soil

CONTENTS

Introduction

PART I: SYLLABUS

Soil as Substrate
Cynthia Browne, Johannes Lehmann

Soil as Archive
Amiel Bize, Seth Denizen, Jayson Maurice Porter

Soil as Health
Emily Brownell, Tamar Novick, Lulu Tessua

Soil as Belonging
Dotan Halevy, Basil Ibrahim, Paul Kurek, Steven Stoll

Syllabus bibliography

PART II: ESSAYS

Soil's Metabolisms

Under the electron microscope, Lehmann Lab, Cornell University, New York:
Behaviour instead of Identity: Functional Complexity of Organic Matter as an Organising Principle in Soil Ecosystems
Johannes Lehmann

British Mandate Palestine:
"The Fertility of the Soil is in Your Hand": On Manure and the Colonial Roots and Branches of the Organic Movement
Tamar Novick

Kwale District, Kenya:
Building Roads, Counting Worms: Soil as a Medium for Parasitic Relations
Emily Brownell

Residual Histories

The Ring of Fire, Americas:
Arsenic Cycles through Racism and Empire
Jayson Maurice Porter

Appalachia, USA:
Mountains Become Wasteland
Steven Stoll

Ndungu, Tanzania:
Knowing Soil as a Living Thing, Treating it as a Non-Living Body: Contradictory forms of Care
Lulu Tessua

Lusatia, Germany:
Punkt Null (Point Zero): An Ecological Substrate Begins Anew
Cynthia Browne

Substrates and Belonging

Berlin, the Cosmos:
Blood over Soil? Albert Speer's Heavy Load-Bearing Cylinder, Glacial Till, and Racial Terra Forming
Paul Kurek

The Gaza Strip, Palestine:
Cultivating an Ancient Soil: Sub-dune Histories and Ecologies
Dotan Halevy

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• Gestão da terra e recursos naturais
• Biodiversidade

soil; humanities