Volume 11
2025

Benazzo, Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo (Directors). The Wisdom of Trauma (Film). Science and Nonduality, 2021. 1hr., 27 min. https://vimeo.com/762456491

Benazzo, Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo (Directors). The Wisdom of Trauma (Film). Science and Nonduality, 2021. 1hr., 27 min. https://vimeo.com/762456491 Keywords: trauma-informed, addiction, compassionate inquiry, unconventional, generational trauma   The documentary Wisdom of Trauma, directed and produced by Zaya Benazzo and Maurizio Benazzo, is immersed in the work and philosophy of Dr. Gabor Mate: an author, […]

Anthony Russell Jerry, Blackness in Mexico: Afro-Mexican Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2023.  

Anthony Russell Jerry, Blackness in Mexico: Afro-Mexican Recognition and the Production of Citizenship in the Costa Chica. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2023.  Since the Revolution, Mexican elites have privileged a racial ideology that promotes mestizaje–the mixture of indigenous and European peoples.  Yet in more recent years, both international and domestic groups have called for […]

Bell, Kirsten. 2022. Silent But Deadly: The Underlying Cultural Patterns of Everyday Behaviour. Caw Press: London. Pages, pp208. ISBN: 978-1-3999-3632-3

Bell, Kirsten. 2022. Silent But Deadly: The Underlying Cultural Patterns of Everyday Behaviour. Caw Press: London. Pages, pp208. ISBN: 978-1-3999-3632-3   Kirsten Bell’s ‘Silent but Deadly’ offers a fresh perspective on the often-overlooked details of everyday life. It transforms the familiar into something fascinating and reveals the subtle patters that govern our behaviour. With a […]

COLIN HOAG, 2022, The Fluvial Imagination: On Lesotho’s Water-Export Economy, Oakland: University of California Press, 224 pp., ISBN 978-0-52038-634-1.

COLIN HOAG, 2022, The Fluvial Imagination: On Lesotho’s Water-Export Economy, Oakland: University of California Press, 224 pp., ISBN 978-0-52038-634-1.   In The Fluvial Imagination, Colin Hoag, a former U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Lesotho, examines rangeland and water conservation efforts associated with the Lesotho Highland Water Project, a crucial infrastructure initiative designed to cater to […]

Mathews, Andrew S. 2022. Trees Are Shape Shifters: How Cultivation, Climate Change, and Disaster Create Landscapes. Yale Agrarian Studies Series. New Haven: Yale University Press, 320 pp., ISBN 978-0-300-26037-3

Mathews, Andrew S. 2022. Trees Are Shape Shifters: How Cultivation, Climate Change, and Disaster Create Landscapes. Yale Agrarian Studies Series. New Haven: Yale University Press, 320 pp., ISBN 978-0-300-26037-3 Keywords: Italy, landscape politics, climate change, historical ecology, biomass energy, disasters, care In the Monte Pisano, a mountain range in Tuscany, Italy, people have been living […]