In this episode, Laura talks with Dr Georgia Ennis about plastic-free living, sustainable fashion, and the close connection between plastic-free fashion and language ecologies in the Ecuadorian Amazon. They share insights on how to conduct research as allies of Indigenous peoples worldwide, embrace slower approaches to fashion, and bring scholarly research outside of academia. Tune in to learn about culture reclamation among speakers of Amazonian Kichwa and practice-based strategies on how to realistically live with less plastic in a plastic world!

Relevant links

AMUPAKIN’s website: https://amupakinachimamas.com/

AMUPAKIN’s instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amupakin/

AMUPAKIN’s TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@amupakin.achimamas

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Georgia’s website: https://www.georgiaennis.com/ 

Georgia’s instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plasticfreephd/

Georgia-s book: Rainforest Radio: Language Reclamation and Community Media in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2025)

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References & further readings

Chef Sean Sherman (The Sioux Chef): https://seansherman.com/ 

Susan Strasser, Waste and want: A social history of trash (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2000)

Kyle Whyte, “Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and Environmental Injustice,” Environment and Society 9, no. 1 (2018): 125–44.

See also Kyle Whyte’s website: https://seas.umich.edu/research/faculty/kyle-whyte 

Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)