329) Kristina Lyons: Soil as cultural, relational, historical
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Kaméa Chayne
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🗓️ 19 October 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
What does it mean to "see" soil beyond their chemistry and biology—understanding also their cultural, relational, and historical embodiment? How have Colombian small and Indigenous farmers resisted—and thrived—even amidst decades of armed conflicts, scientific colonization, and epistemological and ontological violences?
In this episode, we welcome Dr. Kristina Lyons, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, whose current research is situated at the interfaces of socio-ecological conflicts, transitional justice, community-based forms of reconciliation, militarized psychologies, and science and legal studies in Colombia.
Her book, Vital Decomposition, weaves together an intimate ethnography of two kinds of practitioners: state soil scientists and small farmers who attempt to cultivate alternatives to commercial coca crops and the military-led, growth-oriented development paradigms intended to substitute them.
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| 1:36.9 | And now on to today's episode, where we're speaking with Dr. Christina Lyons. |
| 1:42.7 | We're oftentimes focused on like war, on more brute kinds of violence, and there are other |
| 1:47.4 | many violences, right, that are forms of colonial violences that keep happening and that |
| 1:52.0 | continue to create these forms of as you mentioned of alienation or rupture that really |
| 1:57.3 | rip people away from their home and their lands, right, even if they're still |
| 2:02.3 | occupying these places. |
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