Arcadia

Arcadia, Summer 2022, no. 9

Making Rain under the Mallas

Iain Sinclair

Nepalese manuscripts on rainmaking rituals offer data on droughts in historical climate reconstructions.

Arcadia, Spring 2022, no. 8

Threats to the Hadzabe and Why We Should Care

Seth Jones

A look at the sociopolitical and environmental threats facing the Hadzabe hunter-gatherers in the Eyasi Basin, Tanzania.

Arcadia, Spring 2022, no. 7

Multispecies Walden Woods: Reevaluating Thoreau’s Religion

Alda Balthrop-Lewis

What happens when we look at Walden Woods of 1845 through a multispecies lens?

Arcadia, Spring 2022, no. 6

Early Struggles to Maintain Captive Dolphins at the New York Public Aquarium

Samantha Muka

Methods for capturing and maintaining dolphins resulted not only in knowledge about captivity requirements but also in mass deaths and suffering.

Arcadia, Spring 2022, no. 5

Cryptids and Disasters: Serpents and a Werewolf in the Western Indian Ocean Region

Jonathan R. Walz and Rory A. Walshe

In Tanzania and Mauritius, physical disasters are filtered through cultural lenses, including sightings of cryptids: serpents and a werewolf.

Arcadia, Spring 2022, no. 4

Good Foods and Bad Foods: The 1862 Measles Epidemic and Diet in Edo

James Morris

This article explores changing dietary practices during the 1862 measles epidemic in Edo, Japan.

Arcadia, Spring 2022, no. 3

Of Ghost Nets and the Haunting at Nissum Bredning

Sebastian Lundsteen

This article follows “the Danish Society for a Living Sea” and their engagement with ghost nets and “local haunting dynamics.”

Arcadia, Spring 2022, no. 2

A Blue-Green Oasis in the Heart of the Kazakh Steppe: The Korgalzhyn Nature Reserve

David Moon

The Korgalzhyn nature reserve is a blue-green oasis of protected nature in the heart of the semi-arid Kazakh steppe.

Arcadia, Spring 2022, no. 1

In Praise of Weeds: Sympoiesis at St. James’s Piccadilly

Kate Rigby

“Aftermath: Weeds and Wilding” is a collaborative eco-religious project seeking seeds of resilience and regeneration in the midst of disaster.

Arcadia, Autumn 2021, no. 34

Touching Power: White Womanhood, Colonial Spectacle, and the “Forces of Nature” at the Boulder Power Inaugural

Sarah Kanouse

Gender colonization, progress, and nature on display as the first electricity from Hoover Dam arrived in Los Angeles in 1936.

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Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History is an open-access, peer-reviewed publication platform for short, illustrated, and engaging environmental histories. Embedded in a particular time and place, each story focuses on a site, event, person, organization, or species as it relates to nature and human society. By publishing digitally on the Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia promotes accessibility and visibility of original research in global environmental history and cognate disciplines.

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