Arcadia

Arcadia, Spring 2023, no. 3

The Equestrian Suburb of Latine Los Angeles

Fernando Amador

This article explores how Latine residents fashioned the identity and environment of the suburban community of Avocado Heights through equestrianism.

Arcadia, Spring 2023, no. 2

Sight and Sound: Beyond the Huia Extinction Story

Julianne L. Warren and Michael Roche

Beyond the 1907 Huia-extinction signposts, many voices, never silent, call for hearing as well as justice toward mending relations.

Arcadia, Spring 2023, no. 1

Housing for a Changing Climate: The Commonwealth Environmental Building Station in 1950s Australia

Rachel Goldlust

Houses made from earth have historically shaped environmental thinking in Australia.

Arcadia, Autumn 2022, no. 18

“his & nature’s expropriation”: Wetland Enclosure, Salvage Poetics, and Social Reproduction in Wendy Mulford’s East Anglia Sequence

Fred Carter

Wendy Mulford’s poetry reflects on drainage, environmental loss, and social reproduction in the fens, reframing environmental history through a Marxist-feminist lens.

Arcadia, Autumn 2022, no. 17

Poles of Exploration and Exploitation: Olaudah Equiano in the Arctic

Henry Jacob

This essay proposes that Olaudah Equiano’s account of a 1773 Arctic voyage doubles as a critique of exploration and exploitation.

Arcadia, Autumn 2022, no. 16

Philippe-Sirice Bridel, the Natural Landscape, and the Swiss National Sentiment

Nicolas de Félice

Philippe-Sirice Bridel’s youthful diary synthesizes the political and aesthetic issues related to nature, showing the environmental sensibility of the time.

Arcadia, Autumn 2022, no. 15

From Wilderness to Breeding Farms: The Domestication of the Chinchilla lanigera

Ángela Vergara

When Mathias Chapman opened his first chinchilla breeding farm in Southern California, he also saved the fur trade industry.

Arcadia, Autumn 2022, no. 14

The Mighty Streams: Coping with Rivers in the Ancient World

Krešimir Vuković

This article presents examples of ancient conceptions of rivers as more-than-human agents and their struggle with humans.

Arcadia, Autumn 2022, no. 13

Climate Change and Pastoral Nomads: Feedback Loops in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Munkhbileg Batmunkh

This article focuses on the complicated interactions between climate change and the lives of people in and near Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Arcadia, Summer 2022, no. 12

What Does It Mean to Study Environments in Ukraine Now?

Darya Tsymbalyuk

An essay on Russian imperialism and the entanglement of the geologic and the military.

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About Arcadia

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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