This article explores Gondwanaland’s modern history, its unexpected political and cultural purchase since the 1880s.
Periodicals
“Towards a Modern History of Gondwanaland”
“La ‘prochaine épidémie’: Domination et émergences”
This review of Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary, published by Christos Lynteris on the brink of the COVID-19 epidemic, problematises the tension between a dominant pandemic imaginary, perpetuated by outbreak preparedness policies and the media, and an emergent imaginary, historically and geographically.
“Researching the Ebola Reservoir with the Heuristic of the Fetish in Guinea”
Through exploring virology research and its dangers in post-Ebola Guinea, this article argues that the hypothesis of a bat reservoir has taken on a heuristic role that can be compared to the way that a fetish polarizes relations between the people who manipulate and fear this idea.
“Inequalities in the Land: Colonial Legacies and the Quest for Land Equity in Zimbabwe”
A reflection on the use of images in environmental history.
“Walking, Drawing, Designing: Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell’s Drawing Stick and Eighteenth-Century Landscape Gardens”
An article on the methods of German landscape gardener Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell (1750–1823).
“Opening a Technical Field: Ecological Restoration, Local Knowledge and Citizen Science”
A reflection on new approaches to ecological restoration in environmental history.
“Ecotone Scholarship and Structural Change”
A reflection on cross-disciplinary scholarship in environmental history.
“An Environmental History Perspective on the UN Agenda 2030 (‘Sustainable Development Goals’)”
A reflection on the Sustainabile Development Goals (SDGs) in environmental history.
“Mixed Methods, Dry Valleys, New Insights”
A reflection on the use of mixed methods in environmental history.
“What’s in a Name? More-Than-Human Approaches and Environmental History”
A reflection on more-than-human perspectives in environmental history.