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“The Poetics of Dunes”
Joana Freitas reveals the reasons, troubles, and charm of writing about sand and how poetry can be more effective than prose to describe dunes.
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“The Place of the Moon”
Explore the Moon, the world, and the self in a lyrical essay with author Christopher Cokinos.
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“‘Everybody Talks About the Weather’”
The surprising career of the advertising slogan “everybody talks about the weather” is a story about political transformation.
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“Stew of the Earth”
The Azorean archipelago is a lesson not only in geography and geology but also in cooking stew.
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“Cultures of Tarhana: A Tale of Humans and Microbes”
Sevgi Mutlu Sirakova explores the microbial cultures of tarhana and the culinary heritage and human traditions they come with, from the Middle East to the Balkans.
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“Adventures in Mockstitutions”
Jenny Price argues the efficacy of alt-institution public art projects for environmental humanities practitioners and uses examples from her own practice and beyond.
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“The Value of Fragments: Making a Hotspot in Mount Nimba, Liberia”
Emmanuelle Roth and Gregg Mitman write about how capitalism fragments nature to create value. Such fragments can precipitate biodiversity loss.
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“In a Northern Sandbox: A World Congress in Finland”
An account of how the 2024 World Congress of Environmental History developed from idea to reality, and of what this trajectory says about environmental historical scholarship today.
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“Environmental History’s Usable Past: On Reviving the Scholarship of Synthesis”
A reflection on the historical approach to synthesis as a part of the toolbox of environmental history, with a focus on Lewis Mumford.
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“Storying Monocrop Infrastructure: A Conversation on Governance, Scale, and Failure”
An interview of Kregg Hetherington by Sophie Chao.