{"id":2943,"date":"2025-03-09T09:48:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T09:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/?p=2943"},"modified":"2025-12-14T09:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T09:57:08","slug":"online-book-talk-caison-erosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/events\/booktalk\/online-book-talk-caison-erosion\/","title":{"rendered":"Online book talk: Caison, Erosion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Greenhouse book talk: Gina Caison\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1070464565?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"819\" height=\"532\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gina Caison, Associate Professor of Southern Literature at Georgia State University (USA), presented <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/erosion\">Erosion: American Environments and the Anxiety of Disappearance<\/a><\/em> (Duke University Press, 2024) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 17 March 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In&nbsp;<em>Erosion<\/em>, Gina Caison traces how American authors and photographers have grappled with soil erosion as a material reality that shapes narratives of identity, belonging, and environment. Examining canonical American texts and photography, including John Steinbeck&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>The Grapes of Wrath<\/em>, Octavia Butler\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Parable<\/em>&nbsp;series, John Audubon\u2019s Louisiana writings, and Dorothea Lange\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Migrant Mother<\/em>, Caison shows how concerns over erosion reveal anxieties of disappearance that are based in the legacies of settler colonialism. Soil loss not only occupies a complex metaphorical place in the narrative of American identity; it becomes central to preserving the white settler colonial state through Indigenous dispossession and erasure. At the same time, Caison examines how Indigenous texts and art such as Lynn Riggs&#8217;s play&nbsp;<em>Green Grow the Lilacs<\/em>, Karenne Wood\u2019s poetry, and Monique Verdin&#8217;s photography challenge colonial narratives of the continent by outlining the material stakes of soil loss for their own communities. From California to Oklahoma to North Carolina\u2019s Outer Banks, Caison ultimately demonstrates that concerns over erosion reverberate into issues of climate change, land ownership, Indigenous sovereignty, race, and cultural and national identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gina Caison, Associate Professor of Southern Literature at Georgia State University (USA), presented Erosion: American Environments and the Anxiety of Disappearance (Duke University Press, 2024) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[17,18],"class_list":["post-2943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-booktalk","tag-books","tag-environment"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Caison_cover.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2943"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3289,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions\/3289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}