Research

12 hours. It took 12 hours for us to reach Tahuanía from the port in Pucallpa. We went together, but barely spoke. The water was so close to the edge of the rápido and I wanted to ask “is this safe?” so many times. “They’re guided by a night navigator.” (Reflection, 7 June 2024, Tahuanía).…

I am often struck by how little human geographers wish to engage with religion. At risk of making unfair assumptions, it seems that they would rather avoid the topic altogether. Over time, and especially while writing one of my manuscripts, I found myself theorizing more on this question of ‘why?’ For a field that so…

Having been trained as an environmental geographer, I was awarded few opportunities to study religion in the ways a scholar of religion typically would. Ethnography was quite new to me. Even today, I’m still trying to understand how my work can effectively bridge the gap between these disciplines. In the summer of 2024, I was…