Arcadia
The Overrated Effect of Cholera and Typhoid Fever on Sanitary Reform: The Case of Linz
Cholera and typhoid fever did play a role in sanitary reform in Linz/Donau, but cannot be interpreted as the trigger of these reforms.
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Perspectives Article
The Cattle Guard
Etienne Benson considers the role that material interventions into the vernacular landscape play in solidifying our understandings of bodily difference across species.
Exhibition chapter
Contrasting Transitions | Energy Transitions
In this chapter of the virtual exhibition “Energy Transitions,” historian Nuno Luís Madureira writes about different kinds of energy-regime shifts and their preconditions.
Exhibition chapter
Imagining Transitions | Energy Transitions
In this chapter of the virtual exhibition “Energy Transitions,” historian Nuno Luís Madureira discusses the drivers of future transitions in the light of past ones.
Arcadia
Saudi Dreams: Icebergs in Iowa
The First International Conference on Iceberg Utilization, held at Iowa State University in October 1977, contributed to the formation of nascent hydrologics in the late 1970s.
Perspectives Article
Excuse Us, While We Fix the Sky: WEIRD Supermen and Climate Engineering
Jim Fleming gives an overview of the male-dominated state of climate engineering proposals and criticizes the current masculinist nature of climate intervention.
Multimedia | journal article
“The Armchair Traveler’s Guide to Digital Environmental Humanities”
Finn Arne Jørgensen brings Wolfgang Schivelbusch’s analysis of the relationship between technology, media, and the perception of landscape into the digital age as a way of examining the spatiality of digital media and the natural world.
Multimedia | journal article
"Labour"
Jennifer Hamilton’s article for the “Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities” section rethinks “labor” as a useful concept for the Environmental Humanities, by troubling the spectacle of the skyline of Sydney’s Central Business District: a sublime image of late Capitalist growth.
Exhibition chapter
Beyond the Exhibition | Ecopolis München
What is Particular about Munich’s Environment?