Finley, Ron, "A Guerilla Gardener in South Central LA"
Ron Finley recounts his experiences planting vegetable gardens in unexpected places in South Central Los Angeles.
Ron Finley recounts his experiences planting vegetable gardens in unexpected places in South Central Los Angeles.
Managing the Unknown offers essays that show that deficient knowledge is a far more pervasive challenge in resource history than conventional readings suggest. Furthermore, environmental ignorance does not inevitably shrink with the march of scientific progress. This volume combines insights from different continents as well as the seas in between and thus sketches outlines of an emerging global resource history.
This article analyses Thoreau’s thoughts on health based on his writings, emphasising some features that fit well with contemporary debates in the philosophy of medicine.
This article examines the development of North American environmental history as a field on the edges of the historical profession to an increasing application of environmental history to the central events of mainstream North American history.
Inspired by courses they’ve developed at Stanford, Mike Osborne and Miles Traer created the Generation Anthropocene podcast, a volunteer-based audio show featuring thought leaders.
Jean Langford discusses what happens “when species fall apart” in the relationships of care at primate and parrot sanctuaries. Care involves an improvised orchestration of social life—through spatial arrangements and regulation of movement—to facilitate often nonnormative, intraspecies, and cross-species intimacies.
The essays in this collection explore how masculine roles, identities, and practices shape human relationships with the more-than-human world.
Erik Loomis discusses the production of working-class masculinity in the US Pacific Northwest, highlighting environmental history’s need to reinstate working people in its studies.
The author argues that the uncritical acceptance of the idea “invasions” of introduced organisms are the “second greatest threat” to species extinction exemplifies confirmation bias in scientific advocacy.
Tabios Hillebrecht examines layers of power involved in human-nature relations, and how they can undermine Rights of Nature.