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Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands
Full text of Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands, edited by Rachel Carson Center almunae Milica Prokić and Pavla Šimková,
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Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta: A Call for Reclamation
This book examines how the unruly Mississippi River and its muddy delta shaped the people, culture, and governance of the region.
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“Fathoming the Oceans Through History”
Former RCC Fellow Helen Rozwadowski presents her perspectives on the ocean and its history.
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“Researching the Ebola Reservoir with the Heuristic of the Fetish in Guinea”
Through exploring virology research and its dangers in post-Ebola Guinea, this article argues that the hypothesis of a bat reservoir has taken on a heuristic role that can be compared to the way that a fetish polarizes relations between the people who manipulate and fear this idea.
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“La ‘prochaine épidémie’: Domination et émergences”
This review of Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary, published by Christos Lynteris on the brink of the COVID-19 epidemic, problematises the tension between a dominant pandemic imaginary, perpetuated by outbreak preparedness policies and the media, and an emergent imaginary, historically and geographically.
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Air Conditioning
Hsuan Hsu’s Air Conditioning explores questions about culture, ethics, ecology, and social justice raised by the history and uneven distribution of climate controlling technologies.
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“(Inter)national and (Trans)regional Agents: The Coastal Sand Dunes of Mozambique”
This book chapter provides a transdisciplinary overview of the agents, agencies, and processes of change occurring in the Mozambican coast in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and their connection to international trends and global environmental concerns.
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“Actor-Networks, Conservation Treaties, and International Environmental History”
This book chapter argues that the actor-network approach is particularly suited for research in environmental history with its long-standing interest in more-than-human agency.
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“Environmental Historians, Policy, and Governance”
This book chapter explores how environmental historians might interact with, and have interacted with, policymaking and the broader suite of environmental governance that operates at many jurisdictional scales
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Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-than-Human Histories of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin
Situating Australia’s history within global environmental humanities conversations, this book argues that we need to understand wetlands as socioecological landscapes that transcend the nature-culture divide and to embrace non-Western ways of knowing and being.