This article examines how a scalar divide has been negotiated visually, focusing in particular on Ed Hawkins’ 2016 viral climate spiral.
Periodicals
“Mediating Climate, Mediating Scale”
“Low-Carbon Research: Building a Greener and More Inclusive Academy”
This essay examines how the fossil fuel energy regimes that support contemporary academic norms in turn shape and constrain knowledge production.
“Anthropocentrism as the Scapegoat of the Environmental Crisis: A Review”
This article challenges the common view on anthropocentrism.
“The ‘Normative Forces’ of Difference: Ecology, Economy and Society during Cattle Plagues in the Eighteenth Century”
Dominik Hünniger writes about the cattle plagues in the eighteenth century.
“Citizen Sensing with Soil, and the Intimate Alterity of Narrative Distance”
Full article by Renée Hoogland.
“Entangled Stories of Life: Narrative Agencies and ‘Ethics of Worlding’ in the Quantum Realm”
Full article by Serpil Oppermann.
“Historicising Entanglements: Science, Technology and Socio-Ecological Change in the Postcolonial Anthropocene”
This special issue focuses on connected histories of science, technology and socio-ecological change in what the editors call the “postcolonial Anthropocene.”
“Hunters, Rangers, Cougars, and Jaguars: Juman and Nonhuman Territories at the Argentine-Brazilian Border, 1960s–1990s”
Article from a special issue on animal history.
“‘Bringing Humanity Full Circle Back into the Sea’: Homo aquaticus, Evolution, and the Ocean”
“This article historicizes the casual and common understanding that humans are connected to the sea by investigating the precursors to the Homo aquaticus idea, the attempts to realize this prediction through technology, and the legacies emerging from it.”
“The Less Selfish Gene: Forest Altruism, Neoliberalism, and the Tree of Life”
“Why have millions of readers and viewers become magnetized by the hitherto arcane field of plant communication? The article argues that the contemporary appeal of plant communication is rooted in a quest for alternative modes of being to neoliberalism, modes more accommodating of the coexistence of cooperation and competition in human and more-than-human communities.”