Content Index

Axes on the Ground: Wolves and Women on the North American Frontier

How did gendered evolutions of European lupine folklore impact settler conceptions of boundaries between the human and nonhuman?

“Consumer Capitalism and the Environment”

Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Mark Stoll.

Profit: An Environmental History

Book excerpt from Profit by former Rachel Carson Center fellow Mark Stoll.

“Earth Beyond Six of Nine Planetary Boundaries”

A 2023 update on the planetary boundaries framework.

Constructing Postconflict Memoryscapes: From Narratives of Division to Coexistence

The process of defining Kosovo’s postconflict landscape amplifies narratives of division and marginalizes memories of cooperation.

“Dave Foreman: Wise Guy”

An essay by Bron Taylor on Dave Foreman first published in the edited volume Wildeor: The Wild Life and Living Legacy of Dave Foreman (Essex Editions, 2023).

“Frame Alignment Between Environmentalists and the Sámi in the Forest Dispute in Inari, Finland Until the 2000s—Competing Conservation Needs and Obstacles for Co-Living with the Non-Human”

This article investigates the relationship between Sámi actors and environmentalists in Inari, Finland.

Insolvent: How to Reorient Computing for Just Sustainability

Full PDF of the the book Insolvent by Christoph Becker.

Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Western Literature, Philosophy and Art: Towards Theory and Practice

Full open-access book on symbiotic posthumanist ecologies.

“Shakespeare and the Ocean, with Steve Mentz”

In this episode from the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast, former Rachel Carson Center fellow Steve Mentz is interviewed on Shakespeare and the ocean.

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