In this book, author and cultural historian Hsu. L. Hsuan investigates olfactory experience to offer new ways of relating, challenging the extractive logics of racial and colonial capitalism.
Books & Profiles
Olfactory Worldmaking
“Visual Tailings” (manuscript draft)
Prepublished draft of a Emmanuelle Roth’s and Gregg Mitman’s article “Visual Tailings.”
Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for the Environmental Humanities
Full open-access volume Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for the Environmental Humanities (2026), edited by Emily Brownell.
Rural Transitions in Mongolia and Central Asia: Pastoralism, Wellbeing and Economic Relations
Full open-access volume Rural Transitions in Mongolia and Central Asia: Pastoralism, Wellbeing and Economic Relations (2026), edited by Ariell Ahearn, Gantulga Munkherdene, and Takahiro Ozaki.
Coordenadas para una democracia ambiental en Argentina
Full open-access volume Cordenadas para una democracia ambiental en Argentina (2025) by the Escazú Observatory.
Our Bodies, Our Planet: A Parasite’s History of Us
Excerpt from Our Bodies, Our Planet: A Parasite’s History of Us by Marcus Hall.
Moving Deserts: Interrogating Development and Resilience in the Pastoral Drylands of Northern Kenya
Full open-access volume Moving Deserts: Interrogating Development and Resilience in the Pastoral Drylands of Northern Kenya (2025) by Greta Semplici.
Garbocracy: Towards a Great Human Collapse
Species Cleansing: The Cultural Practice of Rat Control
Excerpt from Species Cleansing: The Cultural Practice of Rat Control by Gabriela Jarzębowska.
Six Women Who Shaped What Americans Eat: Food Choice in an Age of Abundance
Excerpt from Six Women Who Shaped What Americans Eat: Food Choice in an Age of Abundance by Michelle Mart.