In this Springs article, historian Tom Griffiths considers Australia’s devastating 2019 and 2020 bushfires and the cultural and worldwide impact they had.
Periodicals
“Australia Burning”
“Organisms, Life Relations, and Evolution: Inter-Dependencies after Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid”
This article reconsiders the relevance of Peter Kropotkin’s notion of mutual aid in evolution, which holds that cooperation is a more decisive factor than competition both among human and nonhuman animals.
“The Shifting Baseline Syndrome as a Connective Concept for More Informed and Just Responses to Global Environmental Change.”
In this article, the authors re-envision the ‘shifting baseline syndrome” in an ecological context.
“Wellbeing for Whom? Neoliberalism against the Environment in Climate Fiction”
Full article by Teja Šosterič.
“Medicalising Electricity in the Dutch Republic, 1745–1789”
This article sheds light on the processes and tactics used by eighteenth-century electricians in making medical electricity a legitimate remedy in the Dutch Republic.
“Natural Histories for the Anthropocene: Koselleck’s Theories and the Possibility of a History of Lifetimes”
Jordheim, Helge. “Natural Histories for the Anthropocene: Koselleck’s Theories and the Possibility of a History of Lifetimes.” History & Theory 61, no. 3 (September 2022): 391–425.
“Apocalypse When? Two Views from the End Times”
An essay on end times and the Anthropocene.
“A World Parliament of Rivers”
Rita Brara and María Valeria Berros argue for the importance of a legal recognition of rivers. “What we want for rivers now is an institution that can be entrusted with their environmental protection on a global scale.”
“‘We are the Dispossessed’: Displacement, Knowledge Production and Bare Life in West Bengali Climate Fiction”
An analysis of the book Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh.
“Coal, War, and Peace in Twentieth-Century Europe”
Franz-Josef Brüggemeier outlines the history one of the most crucial energy source of twentieth-century Europe in this article. “Coal returned to center stage again and again. In both world wars, coal provided the material basis for the atrocities committed and was of decisive importance in the subsequent search for lasting peace.”