Issue 7 Public Infrastructures/Infrastructural Publics »The Zone of Entrainment…pumped at high rates without concern about directly disturbing the smelt or other endangered fish in the delta. Figure 4: The proposed delta tunnels. In late March, the Bay-Delta Imported…
Issue 10 Chokepoints »Ecological Chokepoints…landscape, bringing the ocean to New Orleans’s doorstep. Figure 3: Historic delta lobe formation in the Lower Mississippi River Delta. The ecological chokepoints of the Lower Mississippi have an additional…
Issue 10 Chokepoints »The Times of ChokepointsAt the mouth of the Bengal delta sits the Sundarbans, the world’s largest remaining mangrove forest. The Sundarbans is a protean landscape, made up of a dense interlocking set of…
Issue 7 Public Infrastructures/Infrastructural Publics »Preface: Public Infrastructures / Infrastructural Publics…arrangements of publics, experts, and infrastructures. Consider Andrew Lakoff’s study of water management and the protection of an endangered species in California—a small fish called the delta smelt. At one…
Issue 4 Food Infrastructures »The Oil Palm Kernel and the Tinned Can…back some 5,000 to 6,000 years, with oil palm fossil pollen identified in Miocene layers in the Niger Delta and archeological evidence of an oil palm trade among third-millennium Egyptians…
Issue 3 Sentinel Devices »Hong Kong as a Sentinel Post…500 species have been observed on the territory. Shrimp ponds (gei wai) on the Pearl River Delta around the village of Mai Po have been transformed by the World Wildlife…
ResearchersJason Cons…shaping the delta and the India-Bangladesh border in the present. His first book, Sensitive Space: Anxious Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border, was published by the University of Washington Press in…