Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Choco, Colombia
Shifting Livelihoods describes the lives of people who employ various methods to extract gold in the rainforests of the Choco: Rural Afro-Colombian artisanal miners work hillsides with hand tools or dredge mud from river bottoms. Migrant miners level the landscape with excavators, then trap gold with mercury. Canadian mining companies prospect for open-pit mega-mines. Drug traffickers launder cocaine profits by smuggling gold into Colombia and claiming it came from fictitious small-scale mines. Through an ethnography of gold that examines the movement of people, commodities, and capital, the book shows how resource extraction reshapes a place.
Letters from the Future
Letters from the Future: How New Brunswickers Confronted Climate Change and Redefined Progress is a book of speculative non-fiction that offers a unique New Brunswick perspective on addressing climate change.
Academic Articles
- March 5, 2025 In Praise of Makeshift Finishing
- March 5, 2025 University Bureaucracies as the Death of Play: The 1968 Strax Affair and the Arts of Discombobulation
- May 5, 2021 The Buzz Phase of Resource Extraction: Liquefied Natural Gas in Kitimat, British Columbia
Short Articles
- March 5, 2025 Dismantling the Post-War Liberal World Order
- June 25, 2024 In Praise of Laziness
- December 22, 2021 Write in public, or on publishing before you’re ready
- November 18, 2019 Peak Conference? Let’s Hope So
- May 18, 2019 In Praise of Small Places
- September 17, 2018 It’s Anthropologies, not Anthropology
- April 20, 2017 Self Help for Writers
Posts
- December 28, 2025 Slow Down
- December 26, 2025 On rules, Tendon, and the Classroon
- July 10, 2025 Fichero Update and Working Towards 0.1.0-dev
- March 5, 2025 Twitter/X.com and Social Media
- January 3, 2025 Scheduling a syllabus
- January 2, 2025 iPad Mini + Tailscale + Screens + Better Display = Relibale screen sharing to MacBook
- June 7, 2024 Multi-Column Text Editor on Mac?
- June 6, 2023 The Challenge of Ultra-Processed Food
- April 29, 2023 In Praise of Trains
- December 13, 2020 Letter to Prospective Students
- December 11, 2020 Why I Suck at Email and Social Media