WHERE MOUNTAINS REST, WATERS
EMBRACE
ADRIANA ARROYO AND LEE KAI CHUNGPUBLICATION IN ERRANT JOURNAL ISSUE 9 ‘COMPANIONS’
A new article by Adriana Arroyo co-authored with Lee Kai Chung has been included in the most recent issue of Errant Journal ‘Companions’ which is available both in print and online. The contribution titled ‘Where Mountains Rest, Waters Embrace’ moves away from a human-centric perspective, and instead draws on local cosmologies to create a space for “Affective Alliances” across two distant geographies that have experienced colonial violence for centuries: the Changbai Mountains in Manchuria, and the San Juan River, at the border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
In this issue "companionship is understood not as agreement, but as a shared responsibility across unequal histories. It means not being full without the other. While forms of imperial and colonial violence might differ in places and through times, the issue recognizes how colonial mechanisms are sustained, how they present themselves as if they were past while shapeshifting and continuing in new forms and places in the present. By bringing these contexts in relation, this issue aims to show how certain borders, biases, clichés, and power structures travel, mutate, and shape both human and non-human lives and landscapes. Ultimately, companionship is about prioritizing life and about insisting that no oppression is singular."
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