The genesis and spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 have transformed urban social life across the world. In this essay, I show how COVID-19 epitomizes but does not exclusively define global reach of China's cities, which is weaving new interconnections between humans and non-humans, including viruses and endangered wildlife.

Uncovering kelp’s hidden past as an ingredient in explosives may have the answer to preserving its future survival under climate change.

Along a hiking trail in Wisconsin, questions of military toxicity and colonial dispossession linger in efforts to restore the prairie.

Why did the US Army test bombs in a campus garden? Uncovering the militarized and colonial legacies of the land-grant university.

The Australian Navy pulls on the “inane gestures and aesthetics of social media” to normalize and expand military recruitment.

Improvised landmines in the Colombian hinterlands “provoke uncertainty and unknowability” – even after they’ve been removed.

In the UK, this movement has authorized itself around the claim that ‘the people’ want to leave the European Union. This poses a problem for oppositional movements, as making arguments for a cosmopolitan politics, a supra-national account of citizenship, and the movement of people across borders is now equated with rejecting the view of ‘the people’.

¿Quiénes constituyen la gran familia puertorriqueña racializada? ¿Qué papel político jugaron las mujeres negras en las protestas del Verano 2019? ¿Cómo el feminismo negro ha (re)emergido en Puerto Rico, desde performances musicales – de bomba, plena, rumba y reggaetón – y plataformas como el programa radial NEGRAS? ¿Cuál es la importancia de las intersecciones de raza y género en el análisis de lo que ocurrió en el Verano 2019? Estas son algunas de las preguntas que intento responder en el siguiente apartado de esta breve intervención.

What precisely do we mean in Puerto Rico when we talk about democracy? What does democracy mean in an island that has only ever known colonial rule? And to a people that have never exercised a true democracy?

For decades, the west end of Calle Fortaleza has been a site for protest where social groups and movements, along with trade unions, have often converged to articulate their demands. The #Ricky Renuncia movement also re-signified the ways people protested and the spaces where those events took place. During the Summer 2019 uprising, the street was renamed by protesters as “Calle de la Resistencia” (Resistance Street) after thousands of people met there every night for more than two weeks demanding Rosselló’s resignation despite the violent efforts of police to disperse the protests. The street continued to display its new name long after he stepped down.