Multimedia
“Uncanny Waters”
This article argues for the term “uncanny water” as a conceptual tool for reading contemporary oceanic fictions.
Show search results for
- (-) Remove Multimedia filter Multimedia
Multimedia | journal article
“The World as a Wardian Case”
In this article, historian Kate Brown considers the connections between plants, biospheres, and the politics of breathing. “What can the history of controlled environments tell us,” she asks, “about how we understand the planet today?”
Multimedia | journal article
“Deadly Affairs: An Art Exhibition about Toxicity”
In this article, historian Kate Brown considers the connections between plants, biospheres, and the politics of breathing. “What can the history of controlled environments tell us,” she asks, “about how we understand the planet today?”
Multimedia
“The Very Grounds Underlying Twentieth-Century Authoritarian Regimes: Building Soil Fertility in Italian Libya and the Brazilian Cerrado”
This article analyzes the role of soil in the making of authoritarian regimes and illustrates twentieth-century practices and discourses related to fertility across the globe.
Multimedia | journal article
“A Political Ecology of Desire: Between Extinction, Anxiety, and Flourishing”
This article brings together feminist technoscience and more-than-human theory on care with Lacanian psychoanalytic theories of anxiety and desire.
Multimedia | journal article
“Encountering Ghost Species”
On Lord Howe Island, writer Cameron Muir has a run-in with a nearly extinct species: the woodhen. In the 1970s, scientists counted just 15 birds. Now the number is around 300, yet he calls this an encounter with a ghost species and contemplates how the fate of the lone bird he meets overlaps with the fate of humans.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
“How Computer and Board Games Mediate Climate Change”
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Péter Makai.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
“Apex Predators: Encounters with Sharks since 1900”
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Miles Powell.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
“A Political Ecology of Desire and Illicit Trade”
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Jared Margulies.
Multimedia | journal article
“Can Brussels and Beijing Get It Right? Twenty-First Century Ecological Geopolitics”
China and the United States are in a fierce competition, but what about Europe? Spotlighting “twenty-first century ecological politics,” environmental studies and public policy scholar Sophia Kalantzakos wonders: “Can Brussels and Beijing get it right?”