"Burrows and Burrs: A Perceptual History"
Tom Lee on the dynamism and complexity of the relationship that exists between differing kinds of knowledge.
Tom Lee on the dynamism and complexity of the relationship that exists between differing kinds of knowledge.
Natalie Porter analyses a participatory health intervention in Việt Nam to explore how avian influenza threats challenge long-held understandings of animals’ place in the environment and society.
Michael Adams reviews initial research exploring non-Indigenous hunting participation and motivation in Australia, as a window into further understanding connections between humans, non-humans, and place.
Hagood looks at Rachel Carson’s earlier popular publications on the natural history of the oceans and their impact on Silent Spring (1962).
In this Review Essay, Karyn Pilgrim uses a vegetarian ecofeminist framework to examine the ethics of meat eating, arguing that a moral ambivalence prevails in the rhetoric of some popular nonfiction books that embrace omnivorous eating.
Susie Hatmaker investigates the largest flood of coal ash in United States history in 2008 as an event at once monumental and insignificant.
Jeremy Brice draws on ethnographic fieldwork among winemakers in South Australia to look at pasteurisation as a way to unsettle the assumption that only individual organisms can be killed, rendering other sites and spaces of killing visible.
Matthew MacLellan argues that Garrett Hardin’s primary object of critique in his influential “The Tragedy of the Commons” is not the commons or shared property at all—as is almost universally assumed by Hardin’s critics—but is rather Adam Smith’s theory of markets and its viability for protecting scarce resources.
Greear examines the contemporary trend toward de-industrialized and decentralized production and its implications for ecological sustainability. He suggests we can understand the potential positive ecological implications of such trends by reconceptualizing “incomplete information” in markets, which is often understood as a key way in which markets fail to solve or forestall environmental problems.
Affrica Taylor, Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Sandrina de Finney, and Mindy Blaise edit and introduce a special section on “Inheriting the Ecological Legacies of Settler Colonialism.” The three essays that follow ponder the question of ecological inheritance in the settler colonial contexts of Canada and Australia, cognizant of the fact that settler colonialism remains an incomplete project.