Arcadia

Arcadia, Spring 2025, no. 4

Other-than-Human Survivance Against the Trent-Severn Waterway

Benjamin Kapron

Emerging from an Indigenous Nishnaabeg ontology, “survivance” calls for an understanding of other-than-human persons as agentially surviving and resisting colonial violence.

Arcadia, Spring 2025, no. 3

Dunes, Development, and Delay: Climate Change Comes to Long Beach

Kira Clingen

An east-coast beachfront neighborhood faces a difficult decision about how to respond to storms and rising seas.

Arcadia, Spring 2025, no. 2

Links between State Power and Tree Species: Black Locust in Central Europe

Róbert Balogh

The historical politicization of the invasive black locust in Hungary.

Arcadia, Spring 2025, no. 1

“Cozy Families” or “Hideous Brutes”?—Working with Southern Elephant Seals on the French Kerguelen Islands

Katherine Sinclair

In 1908, Raymond Rallier du Baty and his crew struggled to reconcile their sympathy for elephant seals with their violence against them.

Arcadia, Autumn 2024, no. 16

The Planting of the First National Forests in Brazil: Forest Policy and the Emergence of Tropical Forestry in the Nineteenth Century

Gabriel Paes da Silva Sales and Rejan R. Guedes-Bruni

In the nineteenth century, a water crisis in Rio de Janeiro resulted in the planting of forests, influencing the development of Brazil’s forestry policy and the emergence of tropical forestry.

Arcadia, Autumn 2024, no. 15

Winter Water and Mobility in Early Modern Amsterdam

Bob Pierik

During the Little Ice Age’s harsh winters, frozen waterways posed challenges and opportunities in the Dutch Republic.

Arcadia, Autumn 2024, no. 14

Confidence in a Confidence Man: A Banana-Disease “Solution” in Late Colonial Jamaica

Matthew Plishka

This article examines a “cure” for Panama disease in 1930s Jamaica, highlighting an attempt to profit off ecological vulnerability.

Arcadia, Autumn 2024, no. 13

Peat-Powered Berlin: The Role of Peat in the Urban Energy Transition in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Ole Sparenberg

Peat was a widely used fuel in mid-nineteenth-century Berlin that acted as a bridge in the energy transition between firewood and coal.

Arcadia, Autumn 2024, no. 12

The Emergence of the Hero-Hunter in the Greek Anthropocene

George L. Vlachos

On masculinity, hunting, and the evolving Hero-Hunter concept in the 1960s Greek Anthropocene.

Arcadia, Summer 2024, no. 11

Twenty-One Millet Co-wives against One Rice Co-wife: Millet and Rice Cultivation in the Dandakaranya Forest, 1956–1987

Pankhuree Dube

The Indian government’s support for hybrid rice led to widescale deforestation in central India, disrupting Indigenous foodways based around the production and consumption of millets.

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