Multimedia | interviews and talks
“A 40-Year Plan for Energy”
Energy innovator Amory Lovins shows how to get the United States off oil and coal by 2050 cheaply and easily, by integrating sectors as well as innovations.
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Multimedia | interviews and talks
“Fathoming the Oceans Through History”
Former RCC Fellow Helen Rozwadowski presents her perspectives on the ocean and its history.
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Ecopolitical Space in a Riverine Landscape of South Asia
The article shows how ecological and geographical features influence the configuration of political space within a region.
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The Sierra Nevada Still in Peril
Introduces a short-lived Forest Service framework for landscape-based land management and wildland fire management in California’s Sierra Nevada from the 1990s.
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Climate Disaster, Ecoanxiety, and Frankenstein: Mount Tambora and Its Aftereffects
Ecoanxiety in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein signals our ability to create art in reaction to environmental disaster in increasingly unstable planetary futures.
Multimedia | journal article
“La ‘prochaine épidémie’: Domination et émergences”
This review of Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary, published by Christos Lynteris on the brink of the COVID-19 epidemic, problematises the tension between a dominant pandemic imaginary, perpetuated by outbreak preparedness policies and the media, and an emergent imaginary, historically and geographically.
Multimedia | journal article
“Researching the Ebola Reservoir with the Heuristic of the Fetish in Guinea”
Through exploring virology research and its dangers in post-Ebola Guinea, this article argues that the hypothesis of a bat reservoir has taken on a heuristic role that can be compared to the way that a fetish polarizes relations between the people who manipulate and fear this idea.
Multimedia | film profile
New Directions in Environmental Humanities
A conversation with Christof Mauch on the future of the environmental humanities.
Multimedia | journal article
“Belonging”
In this article for the special section “Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities,” Emily O’Gorman unpacks “belonging” through her research on environmental histories of rice growing in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, located in south-central New South Wales, Australia.
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The Bishnoi: Revisiting Religious Environmentalism and Traditional Forest and Wildlife Management in the Thar Desert
This article traces how Bishnoi religious beliefs have informed environmental activism as well as present-day forest conservation and wildlife-protection strategies in the Thar Desert, India.