earth mending, a history and praxis 

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Living at the brink of death is still a form of living. And the life that flourishes there deserves not only elaboration and study, but also a deep attention to strategic application and use within the climate crisis.

 

Rooted in case studies from disability history, wildfire and Pyrophytel plant life, plastic-eating worms, and repair culture, this course surveys what it means to live with and through the mending practices that inform types of living that lay close to apparent death.

 

Earth Mending asks what recuperative practices—such as carework, mending, stewardship, and reparation—have to offer (to our individual lives, to the persistence of communities, to the soil, air, and water) during times of ecological and humanistic crisis.

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ENV 235 will be offered at Princeton University during Fall 2025,