In this book, Stacy Alaimo explores the influence of the newfound human intimacy with the deep sea might have on our broader relationship to the nonhuman world.
Books & Profiles
The Abyss Stares Back: Encounters with Deep-Sea Life
Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms: Forays with Fungi across Hemispheres
Excerpt from Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms: Forays with Fungi across Hemispheres by Alison Pouliot.
Wild Mushrooming: A Guide for Foragers
Excerpt from Wild Mushrooming: A Guide for Foragers by Alison Pouliot and Tom May.
The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France
A book examining the power of the mistral wind and the ways it has challenged central tenets of nineteenth-century European society.
Mountain Battery: The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Age
In this book, Marc Landry shows how dam-building in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries transformed the Alps into Europe’s battery.
Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love
In this book, Lida Maxwell shows how Silent Springs stands as a monument to a unique, loving relationship between Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, and how such love underpins a new environmental politics.
Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid
A monograph on desert dystopias and the environmental origins of apartheid.
Urban Movements and Climate Change: Loss, Damage and Radical Adaptation
This edited volume takes the reader on an intellectual journey at the frontlines across global South and global North where climate breakdown meets social innovations.
Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction
An excerpt from Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction by former Carson Fellow Kate Rigby.
Frontier Thinking and Human–Nature Relations: We Were Never Western
Combining historical, social and regulative analysis, this book builds a critique of “frontier thinking” as it continues to form our assumptions about social and environmental organisation.