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"The Affective Legacy of Silent Spring"

Lockwood, Alex

Alex Lockwood tries to measure the importance of Rachel Carson’s work in its affective influence on contemporary environmental writing across the humanities.

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Exhibition content

Wegener Diaries - Exhibition Overview-v1 | Wegener Diaries

In this online exhibition, historian Christian Kehrt describes how polar researcher Alfred Wegener (1880–1930) focused on gaining detailed knowledge about the origins of Greenland’s weather and climate conditions and the dynamics of its ice sheet. His expedition diaries, which are at the core of this online exhibition, are a crucial document for anyone interested in the history polar expedition. His dense and well-preserved diaries allow for a detailed look into everyday life, continuities, and changes in polar exploration in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Perspectives

International Environmental History: Nature as a Cultural Challenge

By Christof Mauch and Helmuth Trischler

In this issue of RCC Perspectives, adapted from a 2008 proposal submitted to the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Christof Mauch and Helmuth Trischler explain why the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society was founded. They conclude by outlining the six research clusters of the RCC and highlighting its activities, which include colloquia, summer schools, international conferences, and exhibitions.

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Multimedia | film profile

Plant This Movie

This film examines a vibrant urban farming movement that is catching on across the globe.

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Perspectives

Making Tracks: Human and Environmental Histories

Edited by Christof Mauch, Helmuth Trischler, Lawrence Culver, Shen Hou, and Katie Ritson

Perhaps it is a feature of environmental history in particular that our origins and our past stories shape our interests and our fields of enquiry in myriad ways. Many of the “tracks” in this volume are not well-trodden, and they lead us through a landscape that is mutable and as yet uncharted.

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