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.
Jenny Price argues the efficacy of alt-institution public art projects for environmental humanities practitioners and uses examples from her own practice and beyond.
Emmanuelle Roth and Gregg Mitman write about how capitalism fragments nature to create value. Such fragments can precipitate biodiversity loss.
Novelist Catherine Bush walks the streets of Venice, seeking art that engages with Rachel Carson at the Biennale Arte 2024.
When is it defensible to keep birds in confinement, and what do we owe those who escape?
Anthropologist Paolo Gruppuso and geographer Erika Garozzo ruminate on the life of Sicily’s largest but now disappearing river—the Simeto.
Processing the horrid February 2025 “Killing [of] a Baboon” by a group of schoolchildren in Delmas, South Africa, Sandra Swart looks back at history and examines the role of superstition and the occult in the ongoing violence against these primates.
Anthropologist and STS scholar Mascha Gugganig and cultural geographer Judith Bopp discuss “Organic Farming in Thailand” and prevailing narratives about agriculture.
Writer and anthropologist Amitav Ghosh takes us to the Banda Islands to unravel “The Nutmeg’s Curse.”
Human geographer Mike Hulme looks at sociotechnical developments that have changed the climate and, at the same time, the way we experience the weather.
