Monica Patrice Barra

Monica Patrice Barra is cultural anthropologist and assistant professor at the University of South Carolina. Her ethnographic research focuses on the social and ecological politics of environmental restoration science and planning. Questions of racial and environmental justice and social repair animate her personal and professional work with coastal communities, natural scientists and engineers, and artists.

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Restoration and Reparations: Imagining Coastal Repair

Theorizing the Contemporary

Restoration and Reparations: Imagining Coastal Repair

Forty miles down the Mississippi River, south of New Orleans, a passionate game of flag football breaks out under a brooding summer sky. Gray clouds cut-through... More