Syllabi in Environment and Society
Short profiles of university and course syllabi, and collaborative syllabi projects on Environment and Society.
Short profiles of university and course syllabi, and collaborative syllabi projects on Environment and Society.
What can we learn from human responses to epidemics and pandemics in history? What insights can ecological and environmental humanities perspectives provide? This new and growing collection of annotated links to open-access media (analyses, primary sources, and digital resources) helps put pandemics in context.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, former RCC visiting scholar Thom van Dooren interviewed on his recent book, The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds.
This film criticizes America’s dependency on oil, explains how oil companies were able to establish their power, and provides information on viable and affordable alternatives to petroleum fuel.
In the special section titled “Living Lexicon for the Environmental Section,” Hugo Reinert writes about the history of sacrifice and parses it as violence.
Through interdisciplinary work in the circumpolar north, About the Hearth refocuses on issues of material culture and social organization in indigenous and local communities. In the process, it makes some compelling ethnographic and theoretical arguments.
A collection of essays that explore the “paper landscapes” of the colonial literature and archives in search of the real environmental history of Indonesia.
Clips by students attending the Universidad Internacional (Internationale Sommeruniversität/International University), a collaborative project that involves a range of universities and other organisations in Germany and Chile.
Barbara Freese takes us on a rich historical journey that begins hundreds of millions of years ago and spans the globe. Coal is a captivating narrative about an ordinary substance with an extraordinary impact on human civilization.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Allision Cobb is interviewed on her book, Plastic: An Autobiography.