An account of how the 2024 World Congress of Environmental History developed from idea to reality, and of what this trajectory says about environmental historical scholarship today.
A reflection on the historical approach to synthesis as a part of the toolbox of environmental history, with a focus on Lewis Mumford.
An interview of Kregg Hetherington by Sophie Chao.
A discussion on the terms multispecies, non-human, and more-than-human.
Sophie Chao delves into an unexplored dimension of the agribusiness nexus—the affective attachments of corporate actors to oil palm seeds. Drawing from fieldwork in an oil palm concession in Riau, Sumatra, she highlights the conflicting nature of caring for palm oil seeds.
Sophie Chao on “Plantation” in the living lexicon of the journal Environmental Humanities.
“This article calls for transdisciplinary, experimental, and decolonial imaginations of climate change and Pacific futures in an age of great planetary undoing.”
“This article explores how tropical plantation lifeworlds are made and unmade through more-than-human forms of extraction, extinction, and emergence.”
“This article uses the disposable bottle as a lens through which to study how social actors in Scandinavia have engaged with and challenged European integration at the tension between environmental and economic interests.”
