Feral Atlas lives up to its name. It is an atlas, designed to collect, map, and thematize different ways of looking at the world. Instead of mapping geopolitical boundaries and population statistics, Feral Atlas maps the interconnections of multispecies actors, humans, institutions, landscapes, and capitalist forces. In both subject and form, Feral Atlas is indeed feral: it focuses on beings and objects outside of human control. Visitors to its Open Access website (published by Stanford University Press) are invited to trace new paths and wander in its migrating figures, illustrations, maps, audiovisual recordings, teaching tools, and field reports. As an experimental form of public scholarship, Feral Atlas features scholarly, artistic, and activist collaborations that are digestible by researchers and general audiences alike. Such collaborations heavily feature examples of agriculture, suggesting new opportunities to examine feral foodways beyond optimization and control.
“Field Reports” comprise the backbone of Feral Atlas. The...
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