In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Jemma Deer is interviewed on her new book, Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World.
Read the introduction to The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History.
Sir Crispin Tickell scans what industrial countries can and have to do in order to give a lead in global arrangements to alleviate economic and ecological problems.
Synthesizing ethnographic case studies from mainland Southeast Asia, the authors critically review the implementation of REDD+, a UN project to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. They argue that REDD+ maps onto local power structures and political economies in its implementation, rendering it blunt as a tool for change.
Full text of the second edition of American Politics and the Environment.
The project Everyday Futures explores the role museums can play in helping to make sense of Australia’s experiences during a time of rapid planetary change and global disruption.
Through a case study of the “invasive alien species” (IAS) narrative in South Africa, Susanna Lidström, Simon West, Tania Katzschner, M. Isabel Pérez-Ramos, and Hedley Twidle suggest that IAS oversimplifies the webs of ecological, biological, economic, and cultural relations to a simple “good” versus “bad” battle between easily discernible “natural” and “nonnatural” identities.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Ronald L. Trosper is interviewed on his recent book, Indigenous Economics: Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands .
Earth First! 26, no. 4 features essays on biodiversity and animal activism and reports on eco-defense in Iceland, protests against mining in Papua, Indonesia, and the resistance against Shell in Nigeria.
Economic historian Paolo Malanima reviews a work of ambitious scale by geographer Ian Gordon Simmons.
