Multimedia | film profile
Voices of Transition
This film explores how various communities around the world are transitioning to a more sustainable and local way of life.
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Perspectives
The Imagination of Limits: Exploring Scarcity and Abundance
The contributions in this volume of RCC Perspectives address ways in which scarcity (and abundance) have been represented aesthetically and exploited politically in very different contexts.
Perspectives Article
British Views on the Indian and Ottoman Famines: Politics, Culture, and Morality
British perceptions of the 1874 famines in India and the Ottoman Empire were shaped by discourses that defined these regions as spaces of absence, scarcity, wilderness, or empty land in desperate need of colonial investment and opportunity.
Perspectives Article
Anthropocene Blues: Abundance, Energy, Limits
Since fossil fuel consumption has been integral to the project of modernity, energy history offers one way of trying to understand the Anthropocene and link the histories of capital and climate.
Multimedia | film profile
The Moo Man
The Moo Man was filmed over four years on the marshes of Sussex, and tells the story of a maverick organic dairy farmer and his small herd of unruly cows.
Multimedia | journal article
"The Vulnerability of Nations: Food Security in the Aftermath of World War II"
The essay focuses on the scientific approaches emerging from WW II that attempted to identify key risks to food security and to highlight how wartime experiences informed notions of food security within international organizations for many decades to come.
Multimedia | journal article
"Knechtsand: A Site of Memory in Flux"
This article reflects on the Knechtsand, a sandbank in the estuary of the Weser, that served as a bombing range for the British and American air forces stationed in England in 1952. It examines the locals’ protests historically and uncovers strands of tradition that are hugely significant for our understanding of the Wadden Sea and the expanding conservation regime.
Multimedia | journal article
"Botanical Transculturation: Japanese and British Knowledge and Understanding of Aucuba japonica and Larix leptolepis 1700-1920"
This article aims to demonstrate the complexity of the interchange of Japanese and European knowledge of natural history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Multimedia | book excerpt
Der gezähmte Prometheus: Feuer und Sicherheit zwischen Früher Neuzeit und Moderne
Der gezähmte Prometheus traces large fire catastrophes and the rise of the insurance business from its beginnings in fifteenth century Europe to its boom in nineteenth century globalized metropoles across the world.
Exhibition chapter
Wilderness—England’s English | Wilderness Babel
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by geographer Bill Adams, looks at the history of modern British interpretations of “wilderness.”