Elizabeth Callaway analyzes scientific literature on climate change, specifically from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to consider how scientific representations structure, articulate, and inform our experience of time.
Periodicals
"A Space for Justice: Messianic Time in the Graphs of Climate Change"
Review of Enterprising Nature: Economics, Markets and Finance in Global Biodiversity Politics, by Jessica Dempsey
Ryan Hackett reviews Jessica Dempsey’s book Enterprising Nature: Economics, Markets and Finance in Global Biodiversity Politics.
"'It’s Just a Matter of Time': Lessons from Agency and Community Responses to Polar Bear-inflicted Human Injury"
Aimee L. Schmidt and Douglas A. Clark examine the response of local people and agencies to a polar bear-inflicted human injury in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, showing how human-bear conflict is often widely publicized and controversial, and how it shapes public expectations around bear management.
"Environmental Non-Government Organisations in China since the 1970s"
Fei Sheng traces the development of environmental non-government organizations (ENGOs) in China, and describes the challenges they face in the political and cultural spheres.
"'Images adequate to our predicament': Ecology, Environment and Ecopoetics"
Susanna Lidström and Greg Garrard trace the development of “ecopoetry” from the Romantic and deep ecological traditions of the 1980s to the complex environmental concerns of the 2010s.
"The Orchid in the Land of Garbage: an Ecocritique of Terrence Malick's Film Badlands (1973)"
Blasi shows how Terrence Malick’s film Badlands (1973) retrospectively illuminates the forces in the 1950s that contributed to present problematic human-nature relations, with attention to Malick’s images of waste and death.
"From Biopower to Ontopower? Violent Responses to Wildlife Crime and the New Geographies of Conservation"
In this special section on Green Wars, Bram Büscher examines the case of rhino poaching in South Africa, arguing that we are seeing the uneven emergence of new geographies of conservation focused on preempting threats (ontopower).
"Attachment"
Stephen Muecke’s essay for the Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities focuses on the attachment of humans and the role this attachment has in the construction of “being.”
"Pope Francis: Priest and Prophet in the Anthropocene"
Deane-Drummond’s article for the Special Commentary section focuses on Pope Francis’s statements about Catholicism, the environment, and social issues. She analyses how his choice of terminology and the concepts he engages set him apart from others speaking out on climate and inequality, and recognizes his contribution to environmental humanities literature.
"Economic Magical Thinking and the Divine Ecology of Love"
Northcott’s article for the Special Commentary section discusses the content of Pope Francis’s Laudato si’, highlighting the economic implications of the Pope’s statements and the theological basis for them in the Christian tradition and elsewhere.