daina cheyenne harvey is an associate professor at the college of the holy cross in the sociology & anthropology department and the environmental studies department. his current research and teaching focuses on the post-pastoral & food geographies; the environmental precariat; and critical race studies. he is currently at work on a documentary on “lost” or “wild” apples (apples that are “uncultivated” (Brennan, 2020)--i.e. from “found” trees, pippings/seedlings) that have successfully grown for years without human intervention and how cider makers and orchardists in New England are using these apples as they prepare for climate change. he is also working on an exhibition tentatively titled "the ruderal"--which denote species that adapt (and even flourish) in disturbed areas; think vegetation that takes over after serial bombings or that creep up in alleys or cracks in concrete; mushrooms that grow in the aftermath of a forest fire; what becomes of factories and parking lots in the aftermath of deindustrialisation. this exhibition (and edited volume) focuses on non-human and human relations, especially as ecological crises become the new normal; and as Stoetzer (2022) notes regarding the process of the ruderal, the back-stories of racial exclusions, economic collapse, and interrupted futures and away from ruins as objects, in other words as a ruination, a process--and the socio-environmental implications of that process.
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