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Arcadia, Summer 2024, no. 11

Twenty-One Millet Co-wives against One Rice Co-wife: Millet and Rice Cultivation in the Dandakaranya Forest, 1956–1987

Pankhuree Dube

The Indian government’s support for hybrid rice led to widescale deforestation in central India, disrupting Indigenous foodways based around the production and consumption of millets.

Arcadia, Summer 2024, no. 10

The Bishnoi: Revisiting Religious Environmentalism and Traditional Forest and Wildlife Management in the Thar Desert

Amir Sohel and Farhat Naz

This article traces how Bishnoi religious beliefs have informed environmental activism as well as present-day forest conservation and wildlife-protection strategies in the Thar Desert, India.

Arcadia, Summer 2024, no. 9

From Crisis to Action: The 1972 Myrtea Oil Spill in the Singapore Strait

Miklas Pascal Sauermann

This article explors the 1972 Myrtea oil spill in the Singapore Strait, its environmental impact, and subsequent policy changes.

Arcadia, Summer 2024, no. 8

Climate Disaster, Ecoanxiety, and Frankenstein: Mount Tambora and Its Aftereffects

Taylin Nelson

Ecoanxiety in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein signals our ability to create art in reaction to environmental disaster in increasingly unstable planetary futures.

Arcadia, Spring 2024, no. 7

The Sierra Nevada Still in Peril

Diane Smith

Introduces a short-lived Forest Service framework for landscape-based land management and wildland fire management in California’s Sierra Nevada from the 1990s.

Arcadia, Spring 2024, no. 6

The Becoming of Single Use: The Institutionalization of Disposables during the Twentieth Century in Sweden

Nils Johansson

On the Swedish institutionalization of disposable beverage packaging in the twentieth century.

Arcadia, Spring 2024, no. 5

Limits of the Landscape: A Waste Incinerator for Zurich’s Countryside

Jan Schweizer

How does a waste incinerator take part in the production of a Swiss landscape?

Arcadia, Spring 2024, no. 4

Boiling Memories: Thermal Waters as Nexus of Trauma and Community Agency in Draginovo’s Mnemonic Waterscape

Ivo Strahilov

In 1971, the Bulgarian Socialist government destroyed the cemetery of a Pomak village and built a public bath on its place.

Arcadia, Spring 2024, no. 3

Ecopolitical Space in a Riverine Landscape of South Asia

Vipul Singh

The article shows how ecological and geographical features influence the configuration of political space within a region.

Arcadia, Spring 2024, no. 2

Dreams of Optimizing the Ocean: The 1970 Deepsea Ventures Mining Test and Artificial Upwelling

Yoram Carboex

In contrast to today’s environmental concerns, the first deep-sea-mining environmental impact assessment, undertaken in the early 1970s, focused on the potential positive side effects.

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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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