This panel seeks to challenge the dominant nature-culture nodes in which ecological and anthropological knowledge are produced. The presenters foreground unique practices of critical listening and visual analysis to question and counter the idea that places are ontologically singular and historically unique, reworking conceptualizations of belonging, displacement, visibility, fragmentation and degradation, criminalization and the carceral, and the constitutive relations between land and water.
 Keywords: gardens, waterscapes, displacement, reflexive turn, shared ground, belonging, criminalization, multisensory, abolition geographies.

Talks & Panelists:

• I’m not there, Indivar Jonnalagadda (he/him), University of Pennsylvania

• What the Garden Belongs To, Jake Nussbaum (he/him), University of Pennsylvania

• My Blood is Salty: Navigating Legitimacy in the Little Rann of Kutch, Sita Mamidipudi (she/her), UCLA

• Placing the Subterranean: Groundwater Possibilities in Rural India, Tanya Matthan (she/her), UCLA

• Prison gardens and monumentality: navigating the interfaces of California’s carceral and abolition geographies, Elizabeth Lara (she/her), Deakin University

• mirrorworld, Megan J Gette (she/her), University of Texas Austin

Discussant: Dr. Kristina Lyons, University of Pennsylvania
Moderated by Jake Nussbaum