In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Christina Gerhardt is interviewed on her recent book, Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean.
Cindy Sturm looks at differences in climate-related policymaking Münster and Dresden.
This animated short film taps into the deep pain of the pandemic, experienced by millions of people all over the world.
Anya Zilberstein, Carson Fellow from February 2012 until July 2012, talks about her project on prison gardens, especially the work of Count Rumford (Benjamin Thompson), who designed Munich’s English Garden in the late eighteenth century.
Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene argues that the current climate crisis calls for new ways of thinking and producing knowledge, suggesting that our collective inclination has been to go on in an experimental and exploratory mode, in which we refuse to foreclose on options or jump too quickly to “solutions.”
The 2014 edition, marking the Institute’s fortieth anniversary, examines both barriers to responsible political and economic governance as well as gridlock-shattering new ideas.
A tertian fever epidemic occurred in Barcelona from 1783 to 1786 and affected approximately one million people.
This article investigates how plants are supported by systems of ethno-political, military, and neoliberal power in urban Pakistan.
Meyer explores the need for a comprehensive politics of climate change.
In this special issue on Disempowering Democracies, Gretchen M. Walters and Melis Ece analyze the project development negotiations in a World Bank-led REDD+ capacity building regional project, involving six Central African countries between 2008 and 2011. It explores how the project created a “negotiation table” constituted of national and regional institutions recognized by the donors and governments, and how this political space, influenced by global, regional and national political agendas, led to “instances” of recognition and misrecognition among negotiating parties.
