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Te Aitanga a Hauiti and Paikea: Whale People in the Modern Whaling Era
Billie Lythberg and Wayne Ngata explore what it means to be whale people in the modern whaling period.
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Whale Peoples and Pacific Worlds
Joshua L. Reid concludes that the history of Pacific whaling has undergone a scholarly renaissance.
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Historicizing Risk
In “Historicizing Risk,” historian Lawrence Culver explores Ulrich Beck’s theories on the nature of risk on a temporal scale, and asks how awareness and perceptions of risk changed from the “first” modernity to now, and how that relates to the global issue of climate change.
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On the Role of Natural Hazards and Catastrophes
Historian Uwe Lübken examines how the perception of natural hazards and catastrophes shifts from being historically seen as “Acts of God” to now being viewed as side effects of modernization and a social responsibility.
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Compressed Cosmopolitanization
In her personal essay “Compressed Cosmopolitanization,” Stefania Gallini’s recounts her feelings of dissonance of joining a reading group focused on risk and Ulrich Beck’s work in safe Munich, while coming from the megalopolis of Bogotá, where risk is a daily reality.
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Market Solutions?
Gordon Winder’s “Market Solutions?” explores neoliberal market solutions to risk within the context of Ulrich Beck’s Risk Society and his personal conversation with the latter.
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A Memory from the North Sea Coast
Katie Ritson reflects on the changing North Sea coast, linking its geological history and literature to the bigger picture of time and hope.
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The Discipline of Interdiscipline
In this essay, Adrian Ivakhiv evaluates the merits and demerits of interdisciplinary approaches in academia, especially in the field of environmental studies.
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Less Is More
In his essay, John M. Meyer explores how transdisciplinary approaches impact academic collaboration.
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Minding the Gap: Working Across Disciplines in Environmental Studies
This volume of RCC Perspectives considers what it means to work across disciplines in environmental studies and how such projects can best be realized.