Perspectives Article
The Beast of the Forest
This article discusses la bête du Gévaudan, a wolf or wolves that terrorized parts of the French populace between 1764 and 1767.
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Perspectives Article
History and Audacity: Talking to Conservation Science
This article argues in favour of “audacity”: employing the practice of history fully to tell a complex story involving conservation science.
Exhibition chapter
Literature | Risk and Militarization
With examples ranging form poetry to novels, literary scholar Hsu Hsuan presents a selection of literature on militarized landscapes. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risk in the Landscapes of US Militarization.”
Arcadia
The 1969 Flood and Coastal Erosion on Cape Pitsunda
In 1969, the Georgian resort of Pitsunda and its beach were severely damaged by a storm. This was largely due to an ongoing process of coastal erosion caused by anthropogenic influences.
Arcadia
What Would Indigenous Taxonomy Look Like? The Case of Blandowski's Australia
In 1862, Wilhelm von Blandowski produced The Encyclopedia of Australia as a large visual atlas of 142 plates dedicated to a comprehensive representation of the continent Australia.
Multimedia | journal article
"Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres (1991) and Archival Reimaginations of Eco-Cosmopolitanism"
This article blurs the boundaries of literature, agriculture, public history, grassroots political activism, and public policymaking in order to problematize the current eco-cosmopolitan trajectory of ecocritical theory.
Multimedia | journal article
"Ecological Community, the Sense of the World, and Senseless Extinction"
Mick Smith examines how a posthumanist notion of ecological community might attempt to address questions concerning extinction.