“Opening a Technical Field: Ecological Restoration, Local Knowledge and Citizen Science”
A reflection on new approaches to ecological restoration in environmental history.
A reflection on new approaches to ecological restoration in environmental history.
An article on the methods of German landscape gardener Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell (1750–1823).
A reflection on the use of images in environmental history.
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.
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.
This article explores Gondwanaland’s modern history, its unexpected political and cultural purchase since the 1880s.
This manuscript adopts an interspecies perspective on the One Health laboratory and argues that scientific care for sampled bats may cement hierarchies, with consequences for samplers and animals.
This article investigates changing regimes of value in the salt flats on the southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast.
In this Springs article, history of technology professor Nina Wormbs explores how people justify acting unsustainably.
Frank Zelko dives into the history of teeth and shows that today’s teeth are the product of centuries of biocultural evolution.