Two decades ago, a group of Indonesian agricultural workers began occupying the agribusiness plantation near their homes. In the years since, members of this remarkable movement have reclaimed collective control of their land and cultivated diverse agricultural forests on it, repairing the damage do
By Mareike Winchell, author of After Servitude: Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in BoliviaIn 2010, I was just beginning an ethnographic study of Quechua water activists in Cochabamba. At the cusp of starting my doctoral fieldwork, I had a conversation with an activist friend in Bolivi
We’re thrilled to be publishing this timely new series that focuses on contemporary calls to decolonize and indigenize museums, tear down monuments, and repatriate ancestors. Read our Q&A below with the series editors to find out more about the Transforming Cultural Heritage series.Can you d
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are some of our recent award winners from September 2021. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer Jr.15th Annual Hehdey