Speaking Resurgence to Despair / I’d Rather Stay With the Trouble

Abstract

DH: They are: 1) The Crochet Coral Reef project; 2) the Madagascar Malagasy-English children's natural history Ako Project books by Alison Jolly and her collaborators; 3) the Never Alone computer game project of the Inupiat in Alaska in alliance with E-line Media people; and finally 4) the coalition work among the Black Mesa Navajo and Hopi, the scientists and indigenous herding people committed to Churro sheep, the Black Mesa Weavers for Life and Land, and most of all the Diné activists of the Black Mesa Water Coalition. TNG: What you stress with each of these is that each is risky, each is about tangled lives, each is an example of»science art worldings in which scientists, artists, ordinary members of communities, and nonhuman beings become enfolded in each other's projects, in each other's lives.«11 The most complicated and the one I want to focus on is the fourth - the Navajo weaving which brings together the Navajo-Churro sheep restoration and the Black Mesa Water Coalition. DH:)