Ecological Rewriting Situated Engagements With the Chernobyl Herbarium

• “this group of nine (re)writers annotate and remix” ⤴️
• “to produce what is a new book in its own right – albeit one that comments upon and engages with the original.” ⤴️
• “the collective led by Méndez Cota are inspired by locally influential Cristina Rivera Garza’s theorization of re-writing as dis-appropriation, rather than appropriation of another’s work.” ⤴️
• “the reuse of open access materials does not need to be understood as appropriation or reappropriation of ‘knowledge’. Instead, it can be conceived as a creative exercise in ‘unworking’ or ‘disappropriating’ academic authorship” ⤴️
• “the authors challenge property and propriety by creating singular, fragmentary accounts of” ⤴️
• “both a practical reflection on plant-thinking and a disruptive intervention into the conventions of academic writing.” ⤴️