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AlbaharShahab VtP Annotation: Charting non-human cartographies in post-disaster zones

This research is a provocative effort at decentering the agency of humans in a world dominated by man and technology. It brings to the fore non-human agents and their reclamation of geographical territory that has been rendered severely toxic to the point where all forms of life ceased to exist. The larger question I believe the essay raises is the constructed fiction of "boundary," more broadly the imaginary political divisions that delineate the nation-state and sets it apart from neighboring states. Wildlife migrations and ecological succession challenge the exclusionary nature of the nation-state ideology and remind us that continual movement across space and time is intrinsic to humankind.  

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