Tragedy and the Hidden Labor of Universities
February 18, 2023
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…
Appropriation of Farm Inputs: The Total Domination of Mechanical Oligolopies?
January 23, 2023
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,…
Consider the Olive Burger [And Green Chile Stew]
September 15, 2022
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…
A Methodological Detour: Microhistory or Simply History?
August 27, 2022
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…
Food and Democracy
February 28, 2022
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…
Arguing for the Place of Food in Local Politics: Participatory Democracy and Food in Progressive Era Grand Rapids, Michigan…or a Historiographical Detour
February 20, 2022
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…
Back at it…finally. But So What? An Exploration of Warranted Relevance
February 13, 2022
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…
This is the End…for now
April 25, 2021
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…
Decolonizing the Mind through Restorative Excavation
April 12, 2021
"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…
Imagining Ourselves out of the Failure of Our Future
April 6, 2021
Back in the nineties, when cyberspace was first coined, there was a utopian fervor about this new frontier where the individual could free itself from the trappings of corporate and…
