Geonarratives PH

Author: Joseph Palis

  • This bird has flown

    This bird has flown

    How do scientists survey the number of birds in a given area? In a highly cited paper by Ben Vallejo, Alexander Aloy and Perry Ong (2009) on bird mapping, they employed several approaches and methodologies in mapping urban birds in Metro Manila. One approach involved a lot of fast-paced walking:…

  • The river runs

    The river runs

    I am haunted by waters. Norman MacLean, A River Runs Through It, 1976 Can rivers tell stories? In 2010, Jane Bennett published Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things where she advocates for a posthumanist imagination. Non-humans have active agency within an assemblage. Perhaps that line of thinking can be…