Making Tracks: Human and Environmental Histories | Environment & Society Portal

About this issue

Perhaps it is a feature of environmental history in particular that our origins and our past stories shape our interests and our fields of enquiry in myriad ways. This volume of RCC Perspectives brings together short explorative essays from international fellows and alumni of the Rachel Carson Center. Many of the “tracks” in this volume are not well-trodden, and they lead us through a landscape that is mutable and as yet uncharted. Following them will help us understand our human environments both in the past and in the future.

How to cite: Mauch, Christof, Helmuth Trischler, Lawrence Culver, Shen Hou, and Katie Ritson (eds.), “Making Tracks: Human and Environmental Histories”, RCC Perspectives 2013, no 5. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/5642.

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Content

Introduction: Making Tracks in Environmental History by Christof Mauch and Katie Ritson

A Sense of Place

All that is Solid: Castlereagh 1999 by Grace Karskens
Far Away, So Close by Claudia Leal
History on the Dry Side by Donald Worster
Weathering the Storm by Sherry Johnson
The Long Winter by Sarah Cameron
The Brick Veneer Frontier by Frank Zelko
Finding Dartmoor by Matthew Kelly

Journeys around the Globe

A Deep Affection for Nature’s Beauty by Shen Hou
A Place for Animals by Thomas Lekan
The Charisma of the Wild Mushroom by Shiho Satsuka
Unexpected Detours by J. R. McNeill
From the English Garden to LA by Lawrence Culver

Voicing the Politics in Nature

Chernobyl by Melanie Arndt
Poaching: Criminalized Endogenous Innovation? by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga
Swimming with the Groundfish by Carmel Finley
Fighting the Deadly Fog by Amy M. Hay

Finding Environmental History

Woodland Rambles by Kieko Matteson
Salvation Road by Gijs Mom
The Neo-Materialist Flip by Timothy LeCain
A History of Flowing Water by Eva Jakobsson
From Social to Environmental History. And Back? by Marc Elie
Place, Time, and Me by Franz-Josef Brüggemeier
From East to West by Lajos Rácz

Crossing Disciplinary Frontiers

Lucky Forks by Edmund Russell
Against Discipline by Anthony Carrigan
The I in Interdisciplinary Studies by Cheryl Lousley
Cultural Encounters in the Name of Biology by Eunice Blavascunas
Environmental Anthropologist-cum-Environmental Historian: Listening to the Mermaids by Stefan Dorondel

About RCC Perspectives

RCC Perspectives is an open-access publication that exists to record and reflect the activities of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. The journal was rebranded in 2016 as RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society. It provides a forum for examining the interrelationship between environmental and social changes and is designed to inspire new perspectives on humanity and the wider world. RCC Perspectives aims to bridge the gap between scholarly and non-scholarly audiences and encourage international dialogue.

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The Perspectives Team

Published from 2010 to 2020, the series editors of RCC Perspectives were RCC Directors Christof Mauch and Helmuth Trischler. The former editing team consisted of Harriet Windley and Kristy Henderson. Katie Ritson served as co-series editor and managing editor for many years alongside former editors Brenda Black, Stephanie Hood, Hannah Roberson, and Samantha Rothbart.