Alex Lockwood tries to measure the importance of Rachel Carson’s work in its affective influence on contemporary environmental writing across the humanities.
Periodicals
"The Affective Legacy of Silent Spring"
“Risky Zoographies: The Limits of Place in Avian Flu Management”
Natalie Porter analyses a participatory health intervention in Việt Nam to explore how avian influenza threats challenge long-held understandings of animals’ place in the environment and society.
“Global Ideas in Local Places: The Humanities in Environmental Management”
Libby Robin explores four key drivers of conservation initiatives: place, landscape, biodiversity, and livelihood.
"Burrows and Burrs: A Perceptual History"
Tom Lee on the dynamism and complexity of the relationship that exists between differing kinds of knowledge.
"Living With Parasites in Palo Verde National Park"
Eben Kirksey on how diverging values and obligations shape relationships in multi-species worlds.
"The Oedipal Logic of Ecological Awareness"
The philosopher Timothy Morton is using the Oedipal logic to explain the human shift from a creature inferior to nature to a geophysical force on a planetary scale and to think about possible solutions for an accordingly upcoming bitter end.
“Thinking Through the Environment, Unsettling the Humanities”
The Editorial Team offers an introduction to the journal Environmental Humanities.
Roundtable Review of Wired Wilderness by Etienne Benson
Sara Dant, Michael Lewis, and Robert M. Wilson discuss Etienne Benson’s Wired Wilderness: Technologies of Tracking and the Making of Modern Wildlife.
Roundtable Review of Making a Green Machine by Finn Arne Jørgensen
Peter Thorsheim, Heike Weber, Tim Cooper, and Carl A. Zimring discuss Finn Arne Jørgensen’s book on the Scandinavian beverage container deposit-refund system.
Review of An Environmental History of Latin America by Shawn William Miller
A glowing review of a synthesis of some of the key themes in the study of environmental history as it relates to Latin America.