Interview for SME on researching more-than-human politics (in Slovak)
How do weeds help Native Americans in their struggle against soybean monocultures, and why did people erect a monument to the beetle that destroyed cotton plantations? In an interview with the Slovak daily SME, Bob Kuřík discussed anthropological research into alliances and antagonisms in contemporary and historical environmental conflicts surrounding plantations, bark beetles, and bears.
"It's fascinating how such a tiny beetle can provoke a reaction from the country's top leaders. One explanation is that the bark beetle doesn't devour nature or forests, but primarily the economic vision of plantations, the reduction of forests to lumber."