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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/cattle-corn-and-critters-cross
 -border-mobilities-and-the-multispecies-borderland/
SUMMARY:Cattle\, Corn\, and Critters: Eating and Being Eaten in the Borderl
 and
DESCRIPTION:The borderland between Myanmar and Thailand\, whilst chiefly kn
 own for its porosity and ethnic armed conflict\, has become part of Southe
 ast Asia’s wider plantation frontier (e.g. &amp\; Kenny-Lazar and Ishika
 wa\, 2019). Corn plantations stretch along its undulating hills\, as protr
 acted conflict\, cheap land\, displacement\, and migrant labor have create
 d favorable conditions for agribusinesses. Rather than looking at macro-sc
 ale frontier (geo)politics\, resource extraction/exploitation as often asc
 ribed to the Plantationocene\, this talk aims to shed light on how everyda
 y life bordering practices become processes of biological negotiation. Tak
 ing a multispecies angle to how corn cultivation\, cattle feed\, ethnic co
 nflict\, and invasive pests such as the corn armyworm are entangled in thi
 s borderland\, it invites us to look at borderlands through metabolic rela
 tions and material transformation.
CATEGORIES:Visiting Scholar Talks
LOCATION:Common Room (#136)\, 2 Divinity Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, United S
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