Eebird

About me

My name is Elena.

I am a graduate student studying agroecology and social movements of the commons. I have three years of organic vegetable production experience and a background in rural organizing and oral history.

Things I like

Turkey Vulture

Sharing meals
Sharing ideas
Herbalism
Snow
Olive Oil
Butter
Crows
Turkey Vultures
The smell of petrichor after rain

Things I do not like

Fascism
Consolidation of Power
Pesticides
Being too warm when I sleep
Dry hands
Industrial Animal Agriculture

Guiding ideas

I use the framework of The Commons and the Solidarity Economy to guide my research in Agroecology. Elinor Ostrom was a pioneer of the modern conception of the Commons and her book "The Governing the Commons"^[1] has been influential to community economists and environmental scholars. My studies are informed by anti-colonial and Plantationocene^[2] theories. I hope to be a steward of the land by finding ways to farm that are rooted in an anti-settler agrarianism.

^ Ostrom, Elinor (2015). Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9781316423936. ISBN 978-1-316-42393-6.
^ "The Plantationocene and Plantation Legacies Today". Edge Effects. 2019-01-22. Retrieved 2022-03-08.

[1] Ostrom, Elinor (2015). Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9781316423936. ISBN 978-1-316-42393-6.

[2] "The Plantationocene and Plantation Legacies Today". Edge Effects. 2019-01-22. Retrieved 2022-03-08.

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