How Did Cows Construct the American Cowboy?
Timothy LeCain brings together niche construction theory and neo-materialism in an analysis of late nineteenth-century open-range cattle ranching in Montana.
Timothy LeCain brings together niche construction theory and neo-materialism in an analysis of late nineteenth-century open-range cattle ranching in Montana.
In this special issue on Multispecies Studies, Cary Wolfe and Maria Whiteman discuss the changing notions of landscape and nature at work in the video installation Mountain Pine Beetle and explores some of the forces that eventuated in the devastated landscapes of the Rocky Mountain West brought on by the infestation of the mountain pine beetle beginning in the early 2000s—an infestation caused, in no small part, by what some scientists have called a perfect storm of circumstances created by global warming.
Native American Church members need steady access to peyote, but demand for the plant has been outstripping supply.
To help imagine longer temporal perspectives, a giant clock ticking every ten seconds was built in Texas in 1999. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands”—written and curated by historian Nina Möllers.