Review of Conservation from the Margins by Umesh Srinivasan and Nandini Velho (eds)
Manish Chandi reviews the book Conservation from the Margins, edited by Umesh Srinivasan and Nandini Velho.
Manish Chandi reviews the book Conservation from the Margins, edited by Umesh Srinivasan and Nandini Velho.
Miriam Tola explores the entwinement of fascist biopolitics and the chemical industry at the site of the former chemical-textile plant Ex-SNIA Viscosa from the 1920s to the 1950s, and how this affected human and nonhuman bodies.
Tracing ticks in two different artworks and Leslie Feinberg’s activist writing, Wibke Straube takes their lead in this article from philosopher Donna Haraway and her suggestion to think about engagement with the environment through an “ethics of response-ability.”
In the afterword of a special section on toxic embodiment, Stacy Alaimo distills the collection’s argument for attending to the ways environments, human bodies, and nonhuman bodies are transformed by anthropogenic substances.
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This volume provides new histories of Pacific whaling from untold perspectives.
Lissa Wadewitz juxtaposes the American animal welfare movement with American whaling crews.
Nancy Shoemaker considers the four main products harvested in the nineteenth-century sperm whale trade.
Kate Stevens and Angela Wanhalla explore the role of Māori women in nineteenth-century shore-whaling.