Naira de GraciaFury to Publication: Decolonizing Conservation ScienceToday my paper got published in the Journal Conservation Biology. It has been a year-long process and I wanted to hop on here and tell the…Jun 15, 2021Jun 15, 2021
Naira de GraciaFirst Snow | Prometheus DreamingIt snows all day while I am at work, and I spy the shifting skies from my station next to the bakery’s wood oven. The long-awaited first…Mar 2, 2021Mar 2, 2021
Naira de GraciaWhy do so many of us fantasize of having our own homestead?I have this dream of having my own land, a garden, a couple of cows, some chickens, and just living a quiet life homesteading and writing…Jan 24, 2021Jan 24, 2021
Naira de GraciaWhat is environmentalism without “wilderness?”There is some kind of betrayal I feel when deconstructing the term ‘wilderness’ and coming after transcendentalists for their role in…Jan 23, 2021Jan 23, 2021
Naira de GraciaHow is “Wilderness” a Colonial Construct? — Organeyez“Wilderness” didn’t always have the same meaning that we understand it as today. In Europe, 250 years ago, the connotations of wilderness…Jan 23, 2021Jan 23, 2021