Taylor WalkerOn food & geopoliticsWhen you google image search ‘couscous’, you’ll see two kinds of images. You’ll see pictures like this one, which display a small, coarse…Apr 23, 2017Apr 23, 2017
Taylor WalkerOn deep ecologyPoststructuralism is a theoretical tradition which seeks to dismantle classical epistemologies. When we approach something through the…Apr 15, 2017Apr 15, 2017
Taylor WalkerOn borders, land & indigeneityIn the twenty-first century, our identity is tied to the state, not to the land. I am an American not because I support the American…Apr 15, 2017Apr 15, 2017
Taylor WalkerOn humanity and its circumscriptionImagine that there is a circle in which humanity is circumscribed.Apr 3, 2017Apr 3, 2017
Taylor WalkerOn growing plants in Virginia (and Chiapas)Imagine, for a moment, the garden in your neighborhood in downtown Virginia. It is ringed in black wire, to close living things out, and to…Mar 28, 2017Mar 28, 2017
Taylor WalkerOn the coloniality of beingOver these past few weeks I have shown that we live in a world entrenched in coloniality, dripping with it. Today, I want to talk about two…Mar 14, 2017Mar 14, 2017
Taylor WalkerNepantla & ways of knowingJuana Inés de Asbaje was a Catholic scholar and philosopher in the Spanish colonial territory of New Spain. She was born in 1651. She was…Mar 7, 2017Mar 7, 2017
Taylor WalkerGender & colonialityThere is an Argentinian academic named Maria Lugones who developed an idea that she calls the coloniality of gender. She argues that other…Feb 27, 2017Feb 27, 2017
Taylor WalkerGeopolitics & PalestineThere is a very famous academic whose name and works are referenced frequently in lecture halls and journal articles and even in…Feb 21, 2017Feb 21, 2017
Taylor WalkerWho I amI’m an ethnobotanist and a geographer. I study plants, people, and the spaces we share.Feb 12, 2017Feb 12, 2017