Books & Profiles
Oil Palm: A Global History
Ant Spider Bee: Chronicling digital transformations in environmental humanities
Inspired by Francis Bacon’s ant, spider, and bee as models of collecting, processing, and transforming knowledge, Kimberly Coulter, Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, and Finn Arne Jørgensen founded the blog Ant Spider Bee to reflect on ways technology was transforming the epistemologies, methods, and dissemination of environmental humanities research. A kind of time capsule with essays and embedded media by thirty authors, this e-book presents snapshots of transformations in knowledge practices during a period of rapid change.
Reclaiming Romanticism: Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonisation
Excerpt from Kate Rigby’s 2020 book Reclaiming Romanticism.
Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism
Excerpt from Mark R. Stoll’s Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism.
A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness
Chapters from Timothy J. Killeen’s book A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness.
Animals and Society in Brazil, from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
Excerpt from Animals and Society in Brazil, from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries.
Transforming Socio-Natures in Turkey: Landscapes, State and Environmental Movements
This book is an exploration of the environmental makings and contested historical trajectories of environmental change in Turkey.
The Environment and the European Public Sphere: Perceptions, Actors, Policies
Drawing on recent research results from various disciplines, including history, sociology, law and political sciences, this volume addresses the methodological challenge of a European perspective on a transnational subject.
The Allure of Fungi
The Beloved Face of the Country: The First Movement for Nature Protection in Italy, 1880–1934
Excerpt from The Beloved Face of the Country: The First Movement for Nature Protection in Italy, 1880–1934.