Childbirth on Europe’s Ultra-Periphery: Maternity Care, French Universalism and Equivocal Identities on the Maroni River, French Guiana

The Earth Is Sweet. On Cottica Ndyuka (De)compositions

“…In this way, the pemba consumed by the "eartheaters" appears as the outcome of an undesirable soil-human relationship in which the earth is seen as "dead matter" (Wynter 2003: 267;Yusoff 2018: 211). Geophagy would thus describe a practice of women in racialized bodies and "Bushinengue culture" in the legally precarious territories composed by the colonial enclaves of the Plantationocene (Jolivet and Vernon 2007;Vernon 2018;Grotti 2017;Léglise, Léobal, and Migge 2020).…”