In this article, historian Kate Brown considers the connections between plants, biospheres, and the politics of breathing. “What can the history of controlled environments tell us,” she asks, “about how we understand the planet today?”
Periodicals
“Deadly Affairs: An Art Exhibition about Toxicity”
“The World as a Wardian Case”
In this article, historian Kate Brown considers the connections between plants, biospheres, and the politics of breathing. “What can the history of controlled environments tell us,” she asks, “about how we understand the planet today?”
“Uncanny Waters”
This article argues for the term “uncanny water” as a conceptual tool for reading contemporary oceanic fictions.
“Exploring the Diversity of Conceptualizations of Nature in East and South-East Asia”
This article sheds light on the diversity of meanings and connotations that tend to be lost or hidden in translations between different conceptualizations of nature in East and South-East Asia.
“Mediating Climate, Mediating Scale”
This article examines how a scalar divide has been negotiated visually, focusing in particular on Ed Hawkins’ 2016 viral climate spiral.
“Low-Carbon Research: Building a Greener and More Inclusive Academy”
This essay examines how the fossil fuel energy regimes that support contemporary academic norms in turn shape and constrain knowledge production.
“Anthropocentrism as the Scapegoat of the Environmental Crisis: A Review”
This article challenges the common view on anthropocentrism.
“The ‘Normative Forces’ of Difference: Ecology, Economy and Society during Cattle Plagues in the Eighteenth Century”
Dominik Hünniger writes about the cattle plagues in the eighteenth century.
“Citizen Sensing with Soil, and the Intimate Alterity of Narrative Distance”
Full article by Renée Hoogland.
“Entangled Stories of Life: Narrative Agencies and ‘Ethics of Worlding’ in the Quantum Realm”
Full article by Serpil Oppermann.