Arcadia
Peat-Powered Berlin: The Role of Peat in the Urban Energy Transition in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Peat was a widely used fuel in mid-nineteenth-century Berlin that acted as a bridge in the energy transition between firewood and coal.
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The Colonial Roots of the Kangaroo Controversy
This article situates contemporary debates over kangaroo-population management within Australia’s violent history of settler-colonial occupation and attendant environmental transformations.
Multimedia | journal article
“Walking a Sicilian River”
Anthropologist Paolo Gruppuso and geographer Erika Garozzo ruminate on the life of Sicily’s largest but now disappearing river—the Simeto.
Multimedia | journal article
“The Nutmeg’s Curse”
Writer and anthropologist Amitav Ghosh takes us to the Banda Islands to unravel “The Nutmeg’s Curse.”
Exhibition chapter
Woman of the Dunes | Once Upon a Dune
A reflection on dunes through the perspective of history by Joana Gaspar de Freitas.
Exhibition chapter
Only the Dunes Could | Once Upon a Dune
A reflection on dunes and war by André Kirouac.
Exhibition chapter
The Fury of Fiona | Once Upon a Dune
A reflection on the shifting dunes of Prince Edward Island by Barbara Palmer Rousseau.
Exhibition chapter
Mediterranean Dunes: Environmental Authoritarianism | Once Upon a Dune
A reflection on the destructive management of dunes in Spain by Antonio Ortega Santos.
Exhibition chapter
Managing the Seed Legacy | Once Upon a Dune
A reflection on the biocontrol of the invasive plant Acacia longifolia in Portugal by Liliana Duarte.