This article names and examines carbon vitalism, a strain of climate denial centered on the moral recuperation of carbon dioxide—and thus fossil fuels.
Periodicals
“Carbon Vitalism: Life and the Body in Climate Denial”
“Environmental Humanities: Entering a New Time”
In this short piece, the new editors in chief of Environmental Humanities reflect on the state of the field as well as of the journal.
“Negotiating Botanical Collections: Dr Johann Preiss in Germany and Western Australia”
Haebich, Anna. “Negotiating Botanical Collections: Dr Johann Preiss in Germany and Western Australia.” In “The European Exchange,” edited by Ashley Hay and Natasha Cica. The Griffith Review 69 (2020): 101–108.
“Gender and the Commons: Water Management in Trans-Himalayan Spiti Valley, India”
In this article, Ranjini Murali, Ajay Bijoor, and Charudutt Mishra highlight the role of women in the governance of the commons and point to the nuanced and variable roles found within this gender group.
“Celebrating Jodha: And Revisiting the Commons”
In this article, Harini Nagendra, Pranab Mukhopadhyay, and Rucha Ghate celebrate Narpat S. Jodha and revisit his work on the commons in India.
“Organic Farming in India: Catalysts that Can Help in Transition”
In this commentary, M. Manjula and P. Indira Devi suggest market-based instruments as complementary policy mechanisms for catalyzing the transition to organic farming in India.
“Imagining Sustainability Beyond COVID-19 in India”
In this commentary, Bejoy Thomas, Soumyajit Bhar, and Shoibal Chakravarty caution against optimistic narratives of environmental revival.
“Mathematical Ecology, Evolution and the Social Sciences”
In this commentary, Simon A. Levin argues for the partnership between ecologists and economists.
“The Dark Pastoral: Material Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene”
Full article by Heather I. Sullivan.
“Narrative Ethics, Media and the Morality of the Ecological Modern: The Case of Sweden”
Full article by former RCC fellow Dominic Hinde.