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Arcadia, Summer 2025, no. 7

Turning Ash into Gold: The 1783 Mount Asama Eruption and the Tenmei Famine in Early Modern Japanese Satire

Andrea Csendom

The 1783 Mount Asama eruption and the Tenmei Famine were reimagined through humor in early modern Japanese satire, revealing a world where rice, not riches, defined survival.

Arcadia, Summer 2025, no. 6

Struggles over Water Rights and Legitimacy in Nairobi

Maja Jeppesen

In the face of neglect and exclusion, Nairobi slum dwellers have found ways to provide for themselves, diverting water from the grid and selling it to other residents.

Arcadia, Summer 2025, no. 5

Plastics in the Peaks: The Hidden Threat to Himalayan Wildlife

Maile McFarland

As Himalayan wildlife is endangered by improper waste disposal practices, activist groups like Waste Warriors are working to solve this crisis.

Arcadia, Spring 2025, no. 4

Other-than-Human Survivance Against the Trent-Severn Waterway

Benjamin Kapron

Emerging from an Indigenous Nishnaabeg ontology, “survivance” calls for an understanding of other-than-human persons as agentially surviving and resisting colonial violence.

Arcadia, Spring 2025, no. 3

Dunes, Development, and Delay: Climate Change Comes to Long Beach

Kira Clingen

An east-coast beachfront neighborhood faces a difficult decision about how to respond to storms and rising seas.

Arcadia, Spring 2025, no. 2

Links Between State Power and Tree Species: Black Locust in Central Europe

Róbert Balogh

The historical politicization of the invasive black locust in Hungary.

Arcadia, Spring 2025, no. 1

“Cozy Families” or “Hideous Brutes”?—Working with Southern Elephant Seals on the French Kerguelen Islands

Katherine Sinclair

In 1908, Raymond Rallier du Baty and his crew struggled to reconcile their sympathy for elephant seals with their violence against them.

Arcadia, Autumn 2024, no. 16

The Planting of the First National Forests in Brazil: Forest Policy and the Emergence of Tropical Forestry in the Nineteenth Century

Gabriel Paes da Silva Sales and Rejan R. Guedes-Bruni

In the nineteenth century, a water crisis in Rio de Janeiro resulted in the planting of forests, influencing the development of Brazil’s forestry policy and the emergence of tropical forestry.

Arcadia, Autumn 2024, no. 15

Winter Water and Mobility in Early Modern Amsterdam

Bob Pierik

During the Little Ice Age’s harsh winters, frozen waterways posed challenges and opportunities in the Dutch Republic.

Arcadia, Autumn 2024, no. 14

Confidence in a Confidence Man: A Banana-Disease “Solution” in Late Colonial Jamaica

Matthew Plishka

This article examines a “cure” for Panama disease in 1930s Jamaica, highlighting an attempt to profit off ecological vulnerability.

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