"Dead Museum Animals: Natural Order or Cultural Chaos?"
Libby Robin discusses animals in museums, and how taxidermy has changed from art in the service of science to the backbone of art itself, both in museums and beyond.
Libby Robin discusses animals in museums, and how taxidermy has changed from art in the service of science to the backbone of art itself, both in museums and beyond.
Libby Robin discusses the implication of Sir Colin MacKenzie’s initiative to collect Australian marsupials.
Contributing authors examine what happens when we cease to assume that only humans exert agency, by considering animals and vegetables as agents rather than mere objects.
Manish Chandi reviews the book Conservation from the Margins, edited by Umesh Srinivasan and Nandini Velho.
Vicki Luker details the important role played by tabua—or whales’ teeth—in Fijian history.
Bathsheba Demuth looks at the value of whales for indigenous peoples around the Bering Strait.
Billie Lythberg and Wayne Ngata explore what it means to be whale people in the modern whaling period.
Joshua L. Reid concludes that the history of Pacific whaling has undergone a scholarly renaissance.
Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment is the first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial studies.
Beyond the 1907 Huia-extinction signposts, many voices, never silent, call for hearing as well as justice toward mending relations.