This essay examines Maria Thereza Alves’s Seeds of Change as a decolonial and ecological practice through which the earth emerges as a living archive of colonial history, migration, and resistance. Drawing on bell hooks and Donna Haraway, it argues that the margin can be understood as an ecological and political space where human and nonhuman histories intersect. Through ballast flora, displaced soils, and participatory gardens, Alves reconfigures landscape as a site of memory, relation, and borderless histories.
Cammarata, V. (2026). «The earth talks back». Margini terrestri e storie senza confini a partire da Seeds of Change di Maria Thereza Alves.. In L. Marchese (a cura di), MARGINI DELL’ANTROPOCENE. Spazi teorici, visuali e letterari (pp. 121-131). Firenze : Franco Cesati Editore.
«The earth talks back». Margini terrestri e storie senza confini a partire da Seeds of Change di Maria Thereza Alves.
Cammarata, Valeria
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2026-01-01
Abstract
This essay examines Maria Thereza Alves’s Seeds of Change as a decolonial and ecological practice through which the earth emerges as a living archive of colonial history, migration, and resistance. Drawing on bell hooks and Donna Haraway, it argues that the margin can be understood as an ecological and political space where human and nonhuman histories intersect. Through ballast flora, displaced soils, and participatory gardens, Alves reconfigures landscape as a site of memory, relation, and borderless histories.
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