A Monumental Battle for the Story of Texas
In 2016, I visited the Alamo, as part of my first real return to Texas in many years. I had mapped out a road trip with my brother Edmund Roberts. Though Edmund has long known of…
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Theme: Indigenous Issues
Mockuments
English + Español
On June 12, 2014, a ten-foot white fiberglass replica of the Statue of Liberty makes its entry into Libertad, a small town on Colombia’s Atlantic coast, after a journey through half the country moored…
Harvard’s Farmland Investments in Brazil
In the Spring of 2021, I came across a group of international researchers and activists who had been investigating Harvard’s farmland investments in Brazil and worldwide. As a member of the…
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Collective Isolation in the Sibundoy Valley, Putumayo-Colombia-2020
I was in the Sibundoy Valley, in the Colombian Amazon basin, visiting friends of the indigenous Kamëntza community in February 2020. I realized soon that the pandemic was…
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Intimate Frontiers: A Literary Geography of the Amazon
Here is how I would translate the experience of reading this book into an image: an old chest, half-opened, slightly scary but quite inviting. As you opened it up, maps, travelogues, legal…
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