Juanito del Biobío
@jensbenohr.bsky.social
Anthropologist • Swimmer 🌊 • National Geographic Explorer • 🐾 (he/him/riverling)
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Today on Edge Effects, Jens Benöhr, Constanza López, and Kara Lena Virik document how scientific plant names root botanical knowledge in colonial relationships. To decolonize ecology, we must embrace the pluriverse of knowing, naming, and living with the world. 🌳🔬
Plants By Any Other Name - Edge Effects
"Nothofagus," like other scientific plant names, root botanical knowledge in colonial relationships. "Native names" contain other truths.
edgeeffects.net
January 22, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Today on Edge Effects, Jens Benöhr, Constanza López, and Kara Lena Virik document how scientific plant names root botanical knowledge in colonial relationships. To decolonize ecology, we must embrace the pluriverse of knowing, naming, and living with the world. 🌳🔬
Reposted by Juanito del Biobío
Today on Edge Effects, @jensbenohr.bsky.social follows the wandering of nalca across continents in this thoughtful meditation on migration, belonging, and the porous borders between human and plant life. The world is a garden of migrants, he argues, of both plants and people. 🌿 🧳
Vegetal Diaspora and the Restless Life of Plants - Edge Effects
Conceptualizing plants as migrants with their own diasporas reveals their connection to imperialism and encourages an ethic of care.
edgeeffects.net
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Today on Edge Effects, @jensbenohr.bsky.social follows the wandering of nalca across continents in this thoughtful meditation on migration, belonging, and the porous borders between human and plant life. The world is a garden of migrants, he argues, of both plants and people. 🌿 🧳