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Jessica Caporusso is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at York University. Her research interests meet at the intersection of political ecology, bioenergy, and discard studies. Her dissertation examines how “waste”—as an externality and as resource—is defined through neocolonial logics, by investigating the transformation of crop residues into biofuel feedstock in the small island developing state of Mauritius. Jessica’s work explores the multiple and contested meanings of waste and value while also tracking the development of bioenergy as a source of energetic, political, and economic power. She is an active contributor to the Plant Studies Collaboratory and the Energy Working Group at York.