Alex Nading

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Plantation Palimpsests in Urban Nicaragua

Theorizing the Contemporary

Plantation Palimpsests in Urban Nicaragua

In 2017, we organized a community photo-mapping exercise in Ciudad Sandino, a working-class city located to the west of Managua, Nicaragua’s capital. Small team... More

Opening Access to AAA’s Publishing Future

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Opening Access to AAA’s Publishing Future

The American Anthropological Association (AAA) publishing contract with Wiley comes to term in 2022. In light of this pressing deadline, several journal editors... More

Epicrisis and My Shriveled Plant Moment

Theorizing the Contemporary

Epicrisis and My Shriveled Plant Moment

A friend I’ll call Mary labeled it her “shriveled plant moment.” In 2003, Mary was the director of a development organization that operated in a group of indige... More

Dams and Dialysis

Theorizing the Contemporary

Dams and Dialysis

If you had a slender enough boat, you could navigate the sugarcane plantations of western Nicaragua by water. Some of these plantations hug the shores of the Pa... More

Heat

Theorizing the Contemporary

Heat

We used to call it “global warming.” Behind the Anthropocene, we are told, is a gathering heat. Perhaps it emanates from the birth of internal combustion. Perha... More