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RCC Perspectives

The online journal publishes provocative, less formal pieces related to the Rachel Carson Center's environment and society research themes.
Issue 2017/6

Can Nature Have Rights? Legal and Political Insights

Edited by Anna Leah Tabios Hillebrecht and María Valeria Berros

The authors of this volume explore the potential value and challenges of the Rights of Nature concept by examining legal theory, politics, and recent case studies.

Issue 2017/5

The Good Muck: Toward an Excremental History of China

By Donald Worster

This monograph explores the history of the use of human excrement as agricultural fertilizer in China.

Issue 2017/4

Men and Nature: Hegemonic Masculinities and Environmental Change

Edited by Sherilyn MacGregor and Nicole Seymour

The essays in this collection explore how masculine roles, identities, and practices shape human relationships with the more-than-human world.

Issue 2017/3

The Ecology of Home

By Xia Mingfang

This essay examines environmental thought in China and the West to propose an “ecological history” that offers new ways to think about the human/nature relationship.

Issue 2017/2

Visions of Australia: Environments in History

Edited by Christof Mauch, Ruth Morgan, and Emily O'Gorman

The contributions in this volume explore the way that Australasian environments have been envisioned, worked, and changed in the past, and how ideas about places inform the present and future of the continent.

Issue 2017/1

Troubling Species: Care and Belonging in a Relational World

Edited by The Multispecies Editing Collective

The categories and the types of care we assign are very often tenuous and troubled in nature. The articles in this volume explore some of the intricacy, ambiguity, and even irony in our perceptions and approaches to “multispecies” relations.

About RCC Perspectives

RCC Perspectives is an open-access publication that exists to record and reflect the activities of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. The journal was rebranded in 2016 as RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society. It provides a forum for examining the interrelationship between environmental and social changes and is designed to inspire new perspectives on humanity and the wider world. RCC Perspectives aims to bridge the gap between scholarly and non-scholarly audiences and encourage international dialogue.

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The Perspectives Team

Published from 2010 to 2020, the series editors of RCC Perspectives were RCC Directors Christof Mauch and Helmuth Trischler. The former editing team consisted of Harriet Windley and Kristy Henderson. Katie Ritson served as co-series editor and managing editor for many years alongside former editors Brenda Black, Stephanie Hood, Hannah Roberson, and Samantha Rothbart.

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The Environment & Society Portal is a project of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, an institute founded in 2009 as a joint initiative of LMU Munich and the Deutsches Museum. Read more about the Portal in English and in German.
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