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Risk and Power
Cheryl Lousley critiques Beck’s abstract vision of global risk and cosmopolitanism for overlooking power dynamics essential to environmental justice.
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How Well Does Risk Society Speak Beyond the Global North?
Agnes Kneitz questions the global applicability of Beck’s risk theory, emphasizing culturally rooted perceptions and the limits of a Western framework.
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The Multiple Faces of Riskiness
Diana Mincyte analyzes how post-socialist risk discourses in Eastern Europe deflected attention from systemic upheaval, legitimizing capitalism while obscuring structural causes.
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Dear Little Rock: The Ironic Plot in Civil Rights and Environmental Historiography
Nicole Seymour reflects on leaving Little Rock, exploring the city’s civil-rights legacy alongside present challenges, and draws lessons on struggle and hope.
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Dear Optimistic Future Self
Cameron Muir’s letter explores the struggle to maintain hope amid despair, emphasizing the need to confront harsh realities rather than seek comfort in narratives.
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Oil, Spermaceti, Ambergris, and Teeth: Products of the Nineteenth- Century Pacific Sperm-Whaling Industry
Nancy Shoemaker considers the four main products harvested in the nineteenth-century sperm whale trade.
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Whaling, Tabua, and Cokanauto
Vicki Luker details the important role played by tabua—or whales’ teeth—in Fijian history.
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Whaling at the Margins: Drift Whales, Ainu Laborers, and the Japanese State on the Nineteenth- Century Okhotsk Coast
Noell Wilson details Japanese attempts to integrate modern-day Hokkaido into the Tokugawa political sphere via drift-whale policy.
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Nineteenth-Century Japanese Whaling and Early Territorial Expansion in the Pacific
Jakobina Arch contrasts the modern Japanese whaling industry with expansionist imperial Meiji regime policies.
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Multiplicities of Japanese Whaling: A Case Study of Baird’s-Beaked- Whaling and its Foodways in Chiba Prefecture, Eastern Japan
Akamine Jun explores foodways of whale meat in Japan, specifically detailing Baird’s-beaked- whaling in eastern Japan.