In this article, historian Kate Brown considers the connections between plants, biospheres, and the politics of breathing. “What can the history of controlled environments tell us,” she asks, “about how we understand the planet today?”
Content Index
This profile features the preface and afterword from Environment, Power, and Justice: Southern African Histories.
This article argues for the term “uncanny water” as a conceptual tool for reading contemporary oceanic fictions.
Full text of the book Fire and Snow: Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones.
Full text of the book Green Voices: Defending Nature and the Environment in American Civic Discourse.
Full text of the second edition of American Politics and the Environment.
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Ron Doel.
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Alf Hornborg.
The residents near Wolsong Nuclear Power Plants at Gyeongju, South Korea, protest to claim their rights to live with dignity.
This article sheds light on the diversity of meanings and connotations that tend to be lost or hidden in translations between different conceptualizations of nature in East and South-East Asia.