"Of course, the biological family is ubiquitous in human society. But what confers upon kinship its socio-cultural character is not what it retains from nature, but, rather, the essential way…
I am a teaching assistant at Michigan State University. The last week has been trying for all people connected with the school. But the administration wants us to go back…
John H. Vandermeer writes in The Ecology of Agroecosystems that there were three main appropriations of farm inputs that defined and drove the intensification of industrial agriculture: mechanization, soil fertility,…
A long time ago in a semester far, far away I started a blog post on democracy and food. Well, my website crashed. I had exceeded my storage limits apportioned…
The Purpose of Microhistory is to elucidate historical causation at the level of small groups where most of life takes place and to open the history up to peoples who…
I am trying to wrap my head around the relationship of food and democracy, and am currently trying to disentangle the political economy of food from the role of food…
Some Grand Rapidians gardening in 1917. Grand Rapids Progress, May 1917, 6(5): p. 16 form Grand Rapids Public Library Special Collections. Last week I left off thinking about that space…
Just some artwork by Jerry Garcia. So what. So, it has been a long time since I wrote anything. Things got a bit crazy last semester. No need to get…
So, this is the last blog, my reflection for the class. It has been a weird semester. I am sure most students around the world would agree. Ironically, what has…
"To be a black person working to document black histories is to occupy 3 different worlds, in 3 different roles: as a spokesperson for your erased past, an activist in…
