Explorers of the Canadian Arctic misrepresented the land as a snowscape while tundra plants were simultaneously collected for botanic collections.
This article shows how rural collective action in tropical Australia transformed plantations into small farms in the late nineteenth century.
In the 1790s, Spanish naturalists traveled the vast realms of the Spanish Americas to seek out useful and commodifiable resources.
This article investigates the origins of the exploitation of sperm whales off the Brazilian coast in the eighteenth century.
This article focuses on the contingent practices that constitute oyster aquaculture in contemporary Japan and the multiple forms of more-than-human entanglements that emerge as a result.
This essay examines the multiple factors intertwined in the development of transnational astronomy in Chile in the 1960s.
In Tanzania, those who consider rats technology envision nature as being transformed through social practices that rework environmental histories.
Humans have a long history of meddling in the oil palm’s sex life.
To live among the stars always meant solving the down-to-earth problem of sustainable waste management.
