"Nationalized Nature on Picture Postcards: Subtexts of Tourism from an Environmental Perspective"
Tourists are in a liminal position, on the verge of reality, and they need to communicate the success of this borderline experience back home.
Tourists are in a liminal position, on the verge of reality, and they need to communicate the success of this borderline experience back home.
In this article, Jozef Keulartz, Henny van der Windt, and Jacques Swart examine the role of concepts of nature as communicative devices in public debates and political decision-making.
On November 11, 1886, Heinrich Hertz, the pioneer of high-frequency and radio technology, for the first time observed the propagation of an electromagnetic wave with this setup.
In October 1861 Philipp Reis presented his “telephone” to the members of the physics association in Frankfurt.
This film, narrated by Tilda Swinton, documents environmental projects and actions by ordinary people around the world.
This essay discusses methodological difficulties of the established concept of social memory for the analysis of energo-political discourse. It examines the case study of the German-Russian energy cooperation on the natural gas market which began with the discovery of the Urengoi gas field in 1966.
The Environmental Humanities Lab at the University of Gothenburg (GUEHL) is a cross-disciplinary platform for scholars and scientists interested in humanities perspectives on human-environment interaction.
Seeing the Woods is the official blog of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.
ASLE seeks to inspire and promote intellectual work in the environmental humanities and arts, especially ecocriticism.
Jean M. Langford explores different modes of interspecies communications at an urban parrot sanctuary, suggesting that humans can alter their interactions to ease parrots’ distress.