Stories

My World Your World

In an extract from her latest book, Beastly: A New History of Animals and Us, Keggie Carew unearths a remarkable tale of kinship between animals and humans in the Białowieża Forest.

We did not leave, we are here. We will return. It is our soil.

Erkan Affan journeys to their family’s home in the aftermath of the Earthquake in Turkey and Syria and unpacks how it impacted marginalised Indigenous communities, including their own.

The Gut Soil Connection

From live cultures to permaculture, soil health and human gut health are intrinsically and ancestrally linked.

Shaped by Nature

“Environments… we shape them as they shape us…” - Tim Ingold, The Perception of the Environment.

The Necklace and the Pea

Food extinction: how memories of appetites past connect us.

First Shade

When the shedding of winter uncovers the ephemeral delights of spring.

In Our Bones

Drawing from her book Umbigo do Mundo (Navel of the World), Indigenous anthropologist and researcher Francy Fontes Baniwa presents some of the myths of her people

From the Earthworm to the Economy

Nihal Ellegala created the spice agroforestry project Eko Land Produce on his ancestral land in Sri Lanka to connect and protect local farmers, families and their forests.

A Worldview Route To Kinship

In their book Restoring the Kinship Worldview, Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez present 28 precepts for rebalancing life on Earth.

Remedios: Where new land might grow

The exhibition Remedios: Where new land might grow brings together contributions from over forty artists with Amazonian, Pacific, Indigenous American, Afro-diasporic, and European perspectives