Abstract
This photo essay is rooted in the overlapping edges of urban environmentalisms, the politics of care, and everyday microgeographies of cultivation and inhabitation. The essay offers situated and partial views into yards in Minneapolis, Minnesota, made during several years of research with residents in their yards. Here, yards constitute often overlooked connective tissue for residential landscapes—both territorially, and also relationally. I pair images I made with text—not as objective or neutral illustration, but as part of a search for modes of address adequate to circulations of affect, power, difference, and care. There are many possibilities, as well as pressing reasons, to imagine yards relationally. My research investigates how yards do social and political work as affective realms of embodied engagements, skill, and practice within collective capacities for handling difference, emotion, care, and experimentation.
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