Arcadia

Arcadia, Spring 2026, no. 6

Whale Sharks: A Window Into the Ocean and Ourselves

Laura-Marie Dehne

Whale sharks gather each year at Ningaloo Reef, their seasonal appearances drawing intensive human attention, reminding us that the story of the ocean is also our own story.

Arcadia, Spring 2026, no. 5

Miyaoi Yasuo’s Perspective on Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan: Intersecting Humans and Animals, Shared Emotions and Ethics

Tomoya Masuda

Miyaoi Yasuo’s 1858 collection of tales, Kidan zasshi, challenges assumed human–animal boundaries, portraying shared ethics, reincarnation, and emotional connections by blending folklore and insights drawn from Edo-period experience.

Arcadia, Spring 2026, no. 4

A Paradise in Spring: An Ecological Account of Birds, Fishes, and Hunters in the Bāburnāma

Smarika Nawani

Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad Bābur’s autobiography anticipates an ecological and multispecies way of understanding the environment, highlighting confluence rather than divergence between humans and nonhumans.

Arcadia, Spring 2026, no. 3

Beaches to Blazes: Remembering the 1887 Cape Cod Wildfires Ahead of a Potentially Fiery Future

Samuel C. Gilvarg and Andrew L. Vander Yacht

Although known today more for beaches than blazes, Cape Cod experienced severe wildfires in 1887 that—when remembered—draw attention to the region’s inherent flammability and need for fire-adaptive management.

Arcadia, Spring 2026, no. 2

Insisting on Boars: How Villagers of Karaburun Employ their Knowledge of Multispecies Entanglements in Local Power Struggles

Efe Cengiz

Villagers witness and push to maintain ecological relations in the face of development that has decimated olive groves and scattered fences and turbines.

Arcadia, Spring 2026, no. 1

Between Salt and Water: The Environmental Crisis at Sambhar Lake, Rajasthan, India

Deborah Sutton

Across a century and a half, colonial, private and government salt farming at Sambhar has transformed the ecology of the lake and caused a slow cataclysm of pollution, affecting wildlife and livelihoods.

Arcadia, Autumn 2025, no. 14

State Natural Areas and the Evolution of Land Conservation in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin

Nathan Kiel

Land conservation initiatives underwent rapid change in early twentieth-century Wisconsin, culminating in the protection of hundreds of local natural areas scattered across the state.

Arcadia, Autumn 2025, no. 13

Of Rust and Mold—The Insect Pin as a Token of Transimperial Cooperation

Alina Marktanner

Tropical humidity necessitated a quest for rust-proof insect pins, determining which specimens could be preserved, which tools could be used, and ultimately what knowledge could be produced in the Dutch East Indies.

Arcadia, Autumn 2025, no. 12

More Than Territory: The Cultural and Ecological Importance of Indigenous People’s Ties to the Andean-Amazonian Conservation Area Cordillera Escalera

Ximena Sevilla

The Andean-Amazonian conservation area Cordillera Escalera reveals the history of a forest whose ecological integrity is due to the native population’s efforts to preserve it.

Arcadia, Autumn 2025, no. 11

Making Methane Visible: From Local Leaks to EU Regulation

Ariane Desroches-Touchain

To what extent did the unveiling of gas leaks “scale up” a Romanian technical problem into an EU environmental issue?

Explorations in Environmental History