We are seeking submissions on a rolling basis for Heliotrope, a space for publishing short think-&-feel pieces. Heliotrope is a space for scholars and practitioners to explore and share your work — and to ask new questions.

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Hydrological Globalization

by Cymene Howe

What if we were to find ourselves entwined by water, bound together through a world ocean? For oceanographers, the seas of the planet are one body of water lying across the surface of the earth, never neatly captured in a name, like Pacific or Indian or Southern.

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Seeing Double, Biking Upstream

by MJ Thompson & Liz Miller

Every bike tour needs a starting place, and ours is the interceptor. Our group is made up of university students drawn to the promise of an immersive experience, to the dilemma of waste [1], or perhaps just the challenge of spending a week on a bike.

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Of Folksongs and Feral Children: Taylor Swift’s White Settler Womanhood

by Erin Morton

The romance of a white woman’s settler childhood seems innocuous enough when sung in a Taylor Swift lyric. After all, who could fault her for a memory of swinging in the trees over a creek at age seven, “too scared to jump in”? “Please picture me in the trees // with Pennsylvania under me,” sings Swift, as she laments lost loves and childhood friendships of rural U.S. America.

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Genomics Cloud

by Mél Hogan

There are six rulers of the global consumer technology industry: Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Netflix and Google. Together, these companies – known as the “Silicon Six” or, simply, “Big Tech” – have come to dominate our global social infrastructure, from operating systems, social media, web searches, and advertising, to the cloud infrastructures from which they operate.

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