In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Alice Crary and Lori Gruen are interviewed on their recent book, Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory.
Excerpt from Eco-Theology: Essays in Honor of Sigurd Bergmann. Professor Sigurd Bergmann is a former fellow at the Rachel Carson Center.
In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China’s growing environmental crisis and its implications for the country’s future development.
Excerpt from Thoreau’s Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism, a new interpretation of Thoreau’s Walden.
Kate Rigby examines a variety of past disasters, from the Black Death of the Middle Ages to the mega-hurricanes of the twenty-first century, revealing the dynamic interaction of diverse human and nonhuman factors in their causation, unfolding, and aftermath. Focusing on the link between the ways disasters are framed by the stories told about them and how people tend to respond to them in practice, Rigby also shows how works of narrative fiction invite ethical reflection on human relations with one another, with our often unruly earthly environs, and with other species in the face of eco-catastrophe.
A chapter of the virtual exhibition “Beyond Doom and Gloom: An Exploration through Letters,” this letter discusses reasons for consolation in the age of climate change. The exhibition is curated by environmental educator Elin Kelsey.
The Brauns started farming organically in 1984. This documentary film explores the day-to-day operation of their farm in Bavaria. Among other things, it shows how vital earthworms are for soil fertility.
In this article, Rosi Braidotti explores the relation between posthumanism and the environmental humanities.
Why do we continue to talk about the debate over global warming as if it were a scientific controversy?
This paper discusses changes in land and vegetation cover and natural resources of the Cape Verde Islands since their colonisation by the Portuguese around 1460.
