Redacted

Principal Investigator
Carla Barger, PhD, MFA
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of South Dakota

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Start Date
January 2024

Expected Completion Date
Ongoing

Abstract
Redacted is an interdisciplinary public humanities project that elucidates the relationship between governmental policy, big agriculture, the climate crisis, and rising suicide rates among U.S. farmers. The project marries science and poetry by compiling, analyzing, and then visually presenting research and documents from these areas of interest, then using the data as ciphers and prompts to create poems. The work explores the chasm between erasure and embodiment / exploitation and humanity, and illustrates what data alone cannot—the visceral cost of environmental and human degradation.  

Resources
https://farmstress.org/