Thinking about the Environment: Our Debt to the Classical and Medieval Past
The contributions to this volume explore and uncover contemporary scholarship’s debt to the classical and medieval past.
The contributions to this volume explore and uncover contemporary scholarship’s debt to the classical and medieval past.
McAfee examines the changing roles of scientists and politicians in the decision-making processes that affect the environment.
This article examines the conflicts behind the scenes, within the AAS, between the AAS and the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority (SMA), and within the SMA. It argues that the scientists’ conflict with the SMA over plans for the summit area of Mount Kosciusko (now Kosciuszko) not only established ecology as a scientific basis for conservation thinking: It foreshadowed the current idea that management of a healthy country involves recognition of the links between aesthetic and scientific thinking.
In this 1995 annual report, the Fund for Wild Nature focuses on current anti-environmental politics and the skirting of environmental laws. The purpose of the fund, its funding guidelines, areas of support, and grant projects are laid out. Their intent is to foster connections among diverse groups with the underlying philosophy of Deep Ecology.
Using examples from environmental governance and conservation, Esther Turnhout engages critically with the ideal of policy-relevant environmental knowledge.
Anja Nygren reviews the 2017 book Green Wars: Colonization and Conservation in the Maya Forest by Megan Ybarra.
The author seeks to bring together environmental anthropology and history to frame the place of forests in humans’ lives, from a political ecology point of view. He does this by reflecting on his personal experiences in Northeast India, Kenya, and Sweden.
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.
Profile for Feral Atlas, an interactive project curated by Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou.
Using the case study of the Bhopal gas disaster, S. Ravi Rajan articulates a framework of questions for the next generation of research and advocacy.