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Bear and Human: Facets of a Multi-Layered Relationship from Past to Recent Times, with Emphasis on Northern Europe
The full three volumes of a comprehensive work on the relationship between humans and bears.
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Interview with Anna M. Gade, author of Muslim Environmentalisms: Religious and Social Foundations
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Anna M. Gade is interviewed on her new book, Muslim Environmentalisms: Religious and Social Foundations.
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"Reinstituting Nature: A Latourian Workshop"
In this commentary piece, the six authors attempt to “reboot” or reinstitute a concept close to the heart of the Moderns, namely the assumption that the traditional concept of nature, as developed through modern European history, would no longer be adequate to a future beset by environmental crises.
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“‘We are the Dispossessed’: Displacement, Knowledge Production and Bare Life in West Bengali Climate Fiction”
An analysis of the book Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh.
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"Praise Be to You, Earth-Beings"
Szerszynski’s article for the Special Commentary section of Environmental Humanities explores Pope Francis’s Laudato si’, particularly his call for a new “geo-spiritual formation.”
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Conservation Song: A History of Peasant-State Relations and the Environment in Malawi, 1860–2000
Conservation Song explores ways in which colonial relations shaped meanings and conflicts over environmental control and management in Malawi. By focusing on soil conservation, which required an integrated approach to the use and management of such natural resources as land, water, and forestry, it examines the origins and effects of policies and their legacies in the post-colonial era.
Arcadia
Cleansing the Sacred Habitat in the Time of Coronavirus: Buddhist Sang Rituals in Sikkim in Response to the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic
The Riwo Sangchö is a Buddhist purification ritual that has become popular in response to the Coronavirus in Sikkim, India.
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Constructing Postconflict Memoryscapes: From Narratives of Division to Coexistence
The process of defining Kosovo’s postconflict landscape amplifies narratives of division and marginalizes memories of cooperation.
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The Personal Attacks on Rachel Carson as a Woman Scientist | Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
This is Chapter 4 of the exhibition “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: A book that changed the world” by historian Mark Stoll.
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Making Rain under the Mallas
Nepalese manuscripts on rainmaking rituals offer data on droughts in historical climate reconstructions.