Excerpts from the book Yangzi Waters: Transforming the Water Regime of the Jianghan Plain in Late Imperial China by former RCC fellow Yan Gao.
What connects the sci-fi book Dune with coastal dunes and geoengineering?
Article from a special issue on animal history.
Article from a special issue on animal history.
ClimateCultures was launched in 2017 and is a growing network for creative responses to the Anthropocene.
Excerpt from Thoreau’s Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism, a new interpretation of Thoreau’s Walden.
“Why have millions of readers and viewers become magnetized by the hitherto arcane field of plant communication? The article argues that the contemporary appeal of plant communication is rooted in a quest for alternative modes of being to neoliberalism, modes more accommodating of the coexistence of cooperation and competition in human and more-than-human communities.”
“This article historicizes the casual and common understanding that humans are connected to the sea by investigating the precursors to the Homo aquaticus idea, the attempts to realize this prediction through technology, and the legacies emerging from it.”
Excerpt from Woodland Imagery in Northern Art, c. 1500–1800 by Leopoldine van Hogendorp Prosperetti.
Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes by Heide Estes is a part of the series “Environmental Humanities in Pre-Modern Cultures,” published by Amsterdam University Press.
