Re(in)surgent research

Re(in)surgent research is relational; it is grounded in relations with the forest itself. Re(in)surgent research constitutes a commitment to repairing those relations ruptured through ongoing colonization and war, recognizing how research on forests itself is instrumental in this regard. It is positioned within a larger commitment to work towards the decolonization of research concerning forests and their diverse life-worlds to open the possibilities for decolonized differential forest futures. 

Our current projects include Indigenous digital storytelling in collaboration with the other-than-human life-worlds of forests as a participatory research methodology for the investigation of deforestation and the related ecocidal crisis in the Amazon, and the development of a studio for the cultivation of re(in)surgent poetics that enables writers, artists, and academics to extend their practice together with forests themselves and in collaboration with Indigenous and other forest communities and thinkers, forest defenders, storytellers, seed sowers, activists, and scientists.