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In conversation with Vron Ware and Jim Scown

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Vron Ware is a writer and photographer. 
Jim Scown is Lecturer in Environmental Humanities at the University of Exeter.
Lara Choksey is Lecturer in Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures in UCL English, and Faculty Associate in the UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre.

  • Speakers: Lara Choksey, Vron Ware, and Jim Scown
  • Producer: Lara Choksey and Kaissa Karhu
  • Editor: Kaissa Karhu

Vron Ware and Jim Scown join Lara Choksey for a conversation about the histories that connect soil to colonialism and imperialism, and why these connections matter for agricultural production now and in the future. Vron and Jim reflect on links between militarism and the English countryside, online far-right content and the decline of rural mental health services, and what nineteenth-century soil science might tell us about national identity. Discussing Vron’s book, Return of a Native (Repeater 2022), and their shared interest in the organic chemist Justus von Liebig, the conversation addresses the many scales operating in our sense of the local, from the parochial to the planetary.


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