We are delighted to announce that the fourth NAARCA writing commission has been awarded to Emmy Laura Pérez Fjalland.

Emmy Laura Pérez Fjalland (PhD) is a Danish-Colombian writer, scholar and lecturer in cultural geography. She works with landscapes and landscaping practices, and is deeply engaged with how humans are—and have been—interacting with the natural and social environments they live in, with, and along. Since 2020 she has been writing the weekly letter Jordbo together with the Danish media Føljeton, and has been writing for Danish and international journals, magazines, newspapers, and digital media.

You can learn more about Emmy and her work in Episode 8 of Testing Grounds – Repairing the City.