CONTENTS
Give and take Issue 319 March/April 2020
1 WELCOME
FRONTLINE
4 NEWS
ECOLOGIST
10 SEEING THE WORLD FOR THE TREES Catherine Early digs into global tree-planting schemes 14 THE RIGHT TO LIFE The Arhuaco people have much in common with vegans, but they eat meat, say Ana Ilba Torres Torres and Gunkeywia Torres Chaparro 16 RETHINKING PARENTHOOD Zion Lights interviews the founder of the BirthStrike movement
KEYNOTES
18 THE SACRED ACT OF REBELLION Skeena Rathor writes on the transformation of active grief
Cover image: In Dreams We Wake by Molly Costello www.mollycostello.com
UNDERCURRENTS: DECOLONISATION
24 CHANGING THE COURSE OF HISTORY Thembi Mutch unpicks the meaning of ‘decolonisation’ 26 THE WILDERNESS MYTH At the heart of restoration there needs to be reciprocity,
argues Kara Moses 30 MUSEUM OF CONTROVERSY Thembi Mutch looks at the problems with putting culture on display
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