Arcadia

Arcadia, Spring 2024, no. 1

One Century of Reindeer on South Georgia: From Introduction to Eradication

Ingo K. Heidbrink

Beginning in 2013, reindeer on South Georgia—originally brought to the island by whalers in 1911—were eradicated in order to safeguard local biodiversity.

Arcadia, Autumn 2023, no. 24

“Is This a Society of Humans or of Dogs?”: The Issue of Roaming Dogs in Nineteenth-Century Athens

Iosif Botetzagias

In Athens, 1886, an unprecedented debate took place concerning the poisoning of roaming dogs.

Arcadia, Autumn 2023, no. 23

“Too Much Loose Sand”: Narrating Coastal Erosion in Southeast Ireland

Claire Connolly, Ailbhe McDaid, and James L. Smith

An exploration of Colm Tóibín’s literary responses to the coastal erosion of Ireland’s County Wexford.

Arcadia, Autumn 2023, no. 22

Historic Lake Level Variability and Current Disasters on the Shores of Lake Tanganyika

Philip Gooding

A historically grounded interpretation of Lake Tanganyika’s rising lake waters shows that global warming presents just one of many challenges facing the region.

Arcadia, Autumn 2023, no. 21

Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad: Animals Return to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

Robert Jacobs

How we project our own fantasies onto animals in Chernobyl depends on if they are what animals we have in mind.

Arcadia, Autumn 2023, no. 20

A More-than-Human Viewpoint on the History of a “Peruvian” Disease

José Ignacio Mogrovejo

A disease that is now a national symbol of Peru’s medical achievements is the result of a tiny sandfly

Arcadia, Autumn 2023, no. 19

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

Caroline Abbott

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

Arcadia, Autumn 2023, no. 18

Constructing Postconflict Memoryscapes: From Narratives of Division to Coexistence

Teresa Lappe-Osthege and Jovana Diković

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

Arcadia, Summer 2023, no. 17

Hydroelectric Power and the Ashio Copper Mine

James Morris

This article explores the history and effects of the (hydro)electrification of the Ashio Copper Mine.

Arcadia, Summer 2023, no. 16

Different Ways of Thinking Globally: The Unlikely Return of the Noosphere in Russian Environmental Discourses

Victoria Myznikova

What role does Vernadsky’s concept of the noosphere plays in contemporary Russian environmental legislation and green economy discourses?

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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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