“The Poetics of Dunes”
Joana Freitas reveals the reasons, troubles, and charm of writing about sand and how poetry can be more effective than prose to describe dunes.
Joana Freitas reveals the reasons, troubles, and charm of writing about sand and how poetry can be more effective than prose to describe dunes.
Sevgi Mutlu Sirakova explores the microbial cultures of tarhana and the culinary heritage and human traditions they come with, from the Middle East to the Balkans.
This Austin Earth First! publication titled “End Corporate Dominance!” features topics like the menace of the Endangered Species Act, the global gathering of indigenous people fighting the oil industry, Mexican Zapatismo, Austin’s transportation and land use infrastructure, Freeport McMoran mining in West Papua, Indonesia, and the children’s march to save Sierra Blanca.
Dave Foreman’s Books of the Big Outside is a catalog of books, poetry, music, and material pertaining to what he calls the “Big Outside,” compiled for “wilderness defenders.”
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Aneurin Merrill-Glover.
Alison Pouliot writes about the pejorative language that has been used to describe fungi and how it has shaped our understanding of them.
In view of the escalating environmental crisis, the democratic states of the Global North must ecologically transform their social and constitutional orders.
Jenny Price argues the efficacy of alt-institution public art projects for environmental humanities practitioners and uses examples from her own practice and beyond.
Emmanuelle Roth and Gregg Mitman write about how capitalism fragments nature to create value. Such fragments can precipitate biodiversity loss.
This volume of RCC Perspectives contains an English and a German version of a speech made by RCC Director Christof Mauch in 2009. In his speech, Mauch outlines the purpose of the Rachel Carson Center and argues for the importance of studying environmental history.