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Silent Spring
Silent Spring describes the harmful effects of pesticides on the environment, and is widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement.
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Carson's Silent Spring: A Reader's Guide
Carson’s Silent Spring: A Reader’s Guide provides an in-depth analysis and contextualization of Silent Spring. It also surveys the lasting impact the text has had on the environmentalist movement in the last fifty years.
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"The Affective Legacy of Silent Spring"
Alex Lockwood tries to measure the importance of Rachel Carson’s work in its affective influence on contemporary environmental writing across the humanities.
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The Silent Spring Soundscape: Lessons in Listening to the Land (Story Map)
Interactive story map on Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring and the relevance of sound.
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"'Without Evidence, There Is No Answer': Uncertainty and Scientific Ethos in the Silent Spring[s] of Rachel Carson"
Walker focuses on uncertainty as a boundary device that shapes scientific ethos in crucial ways and negotiates a relationship between technical science and public deliberation.
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Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
A biography of American scientist and popular ecology writer, Rachel Carson.
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Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love
In this book, Lida Maxwell shows how Silent Springs stands as a monument to a unique, loving relationship between Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, and how such love underpins a new environmental politics.
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Wrenched
Wrenched captures the passing of the monkey wrench from the pioneers of eco-activism to the new generation who carries Edward Abbey’s legacy into the 21st century. The fight continues to bring awareness to the need for protection of the last bastion of the American wilderness - the spirit of the West.
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"Wonders with the Sea: Rachel Carson’s Ecological Aesthetic and the Mid-Century Reader"
Hagood looks at Rachel Carson’s earlier popular publications on the natural history of the oceans and their impact on Silent Spring (1962).
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"Listening to Birds in the Anthropocene: The Anxious Semiotics of Sound in a Human-Dominated World"
Andrew Whitehouse considers the semiotics of listening to birds in the Anthropocene by drawing on Kohn’s recent arguments on the semiotics of more-than-human relations and Ingold’s understanding of the world as a meshwork, and comparing the work of Bernie Krause with responses to the the Listening to Birds project.