“Avian Escapees and Budgie Snugglers”
When is it defensible to keep birds in confinement, and what do we owe those who escape?
When is it defensible to keep birds in confinement, and what do we owe those who escape?
Anthropologist Paolo Gruppuso and geographer Erika Garozzo ruminate on the life of Sicily’s largest but now disappearing river—the Simeto.
Processing the horrid February 2025 “Killing [of] a Baboon” by a group of schoolchildren in Delmas, South Africa, Sandra Swart looks back at history and examines the role of superstition and the occult in the ongoing violence against these primates.
Anthropologist and STS scholar Mascha Gugganig and cultural geographer Judith Bopp discuss “Organic Farming in Thailand” and prevailing narratives about agriculture.
Writer and anthropologist Amitav Ghosh takes us to the Banda Islands to unravel “The Nutmeg’s Curse.”
Human geographer Mike Hulme looks at sociotechnical developments that have changed the climate and, at the same time, the way we experience the weather.
This article calls for a re-envisioning of the blue economy through the eyes of coastal communities and their socio-ecological relations.
Kata Beilin’s short story narrates of a scholar’s Amazonian journey, which awakens her from ambition’s illusion to the deeper truth of the interbeing in the forest.
Amrita Dasgupta shows how the littoral sex workers of the Mongla brothel struggle to make a livelihood in the face of climate change.
The work of two biologists in remote forests shows that species recovery depends on both data and human–animal bonds forged in the field, as Monica Vasile writes.