- Introduction Emily Brownell
- Ithaca, New York Behaviour instead of Identity: Functional Complexity of Organic Matter as an Organising Principle in Soil Ecosystems Johannes Lehmann
- British Mandate Palestine ‘The Fertility of the Soil is in Your Hand’: On Manure and the Colonial Roots and Branches of the Organic Movement Tamar Novick
- Kwale District, Kenya Building Roads, Counting Worms: Soil as a Medium for Parasitic Relations Emily Brownell
- USA and Mexico Rings of Fire: Arsenic Cycles Through Racism and Empire Jayson Maurice Porter
- Appalachia, USA Mountains Become Wasteland Steven Stoll
- Ndungu, Tanzania Knowing Soil as a Living Thing, Treating it as a Non-Living Body: Contradictory Forms of Care Lulu Tessua
- Lusatia, Germany Punkt Null (Point Zero): An Ecological Substrate Begins Anew Cynthia Browne
- Berlin, the Cosmos Blood over Soil. Albert Speer’s Heavy Load-Bearing Cylinder, Glacial Till, and Racial Terra-Forming Paul Kurek
- The Gaza Strip, Palestine Cultivating an Ancient Soil: Sub-dune Histories and Ecologies Dotan Halevy
