Well, we've arrived at the end of our series, and at the end of our 3rd Season. We literally could not have done it without you. Thank you so much for supporting us. You can still expect a few more seaweed episodes to close out the bunch, and some other off-season goodies. Keep your eyes peeled for a new Gathertown party to celebrate the completion of Goatwalker & S3, to be announced.

In case you missed it, we might spin up a little arts & writing newsletter, so if that's something you'd like to contribute to or help organize/publish, please let us know.

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Episode Summary

What is a border? Is it simply an edge: a sharp transition between one state and another? Or does it stretch beyond a single dimension, warping land and people through a self-perpetuating ‘otherness’?

In this final chapter of Goatwalker, we uncover the ties that bind ecosystems, identities, and communities of all sorts – migrant or otherwise. We’ll walk a path to restorative justice: a way to foster new livelihoods through conservation programs and the many uses of an oft-overlooked keystone species of the desert southwest.

Rigid borders are a foundational source of inequity. For as long as they persist, we face a growing need to care for the earth and for each other: to discover our own capacity for Sanctuary.

From Future Ecologies, this is Goatwalker, Part Four: An Open Wound

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This episode features Carlos Tarin, Stacey Sowards, Sarah Upton, Gary Paul Nabhan, Francesca Claverie, and John Fife. Narration was by Ana Zavala.

Music by Satorian, People with Bodies, Hidden Sky, and Sunfish Moon Light. Goatwalking Theme by Ryder Thomas White and Sunfish Moon Light.

Learn more about the work of the Borderlands Restoration Network (and BECY program),  No Más Muertes, and No One Is Illegal

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Citations

Anzaldúa, G. (1987).Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Aunt Lute Books

Corbett, J. (1992). Goatwalking. Penguin Books

Corbett, J. (2005) Sanctuary for All Life: Wildland Pastoralism and the Peaceable Kingdom. Howling Dog Press (Cascabel Books 2nd Ed.)

Nabhan, G. (2018) Mesquite: An Arboreal Love Affair. Chelsea Green Publishing.

Nabhan, G. (2018)Food from the Radical Center: Healing Our Land and Communities. Island Press

Nabhan, G., and Burgess, M. ed. (2019) Mesquite Manifesto (second edition)

Tarin, C., Upton, S., and Sowards, S. (2020) Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity, Chapter 3: Borderland Ecocultural Identities. Ed. Milstein, T. and Castro-Sotomayor, J.

Walia, H. (2021) Border and Rule. Haymarket Books.

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