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The Struggle for Air: Mining, Dust, and Death on the South African Rand
Underground mining on South Africa’s Rand transformed the air.
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Boar-der Fencing: Human-Animal Conflicts in the Danish Borderlands
Fencing for biosecurity reasons is a contentious topic among pig farmers, environmental organizations, politicians, and borderland communities.
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The Backyard Chook: Australia’s Enduring Nest Egg
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, demand for backyard chickens soared. This article traces how, since settlement, Australians have turned to backyard chooks in times of crisis in pursuit of food security.
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Hydroelectric Power and the Ashio Copper Mine
This article explores the history and effects of the (hydro)electrification of the Ashio Copper Mine.
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Stevia as a Genetic Resource: Intellectual Property and Guaraní Strategies for Access-and-Benefit Sharing in Paraguay and Brazil
The Guaraní accused global corporations such as Coca Cola and Cargill of using their traditional knowledge associated with the stevia plant and filed for an access-and-benefit sharing agreement.
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Constructing Postconflict Memoryscapes: From Narratives of Division to Coexistence
The process of defining Kosovo’s postconflict landscape amplifies narratives of division and marginalizes memories of cooperation.
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Axes on the Ground: Wolves and Women on the North American Frontier
How did gendered evolutions of European lupine folklore impact settler conceptions of boundaries between the human and nonhuman?
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“Is This a Society of Humans or of Dogs?”: The Issue of Roaming Dogs in Nineteenth-Century Athens
In Athens, 1886, an unprecedented debate took place concerning the poisoning of roaming dogs.
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Climate Disaster, Ecoanxiety, and Frankenstein: Mount Tambora and Its Aftereffects
Ecoanxiety in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein signals our ability to create art in reaction to environmental disaster in increasingly unstable planetary futures.
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Confidence in a Confidence Man: A Banana-Disease “Solution” in Late Colonial Jamaica
This article examines a “cure” for Panama disease in 1930s Jamaica, highlighting an attempt to profit off ecological vulnerability.