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Wild Earth 3, no. 4
Wild Earth 3, no. 4 puts the spotlight on endangered invertebrates, exotic pests in US forests, the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act, and keywords of conservation and environmental discourses.
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Snakey Waters, or: How Marine Biology Structured Global Environmental Sciences
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century the ocean was “discovered” as a three-dimensional space filled with living organisms. Investigation of this new frontier caused the world to be reevaluated in a multitude of ways.
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Syphilis in South America: A Closer Look at Pre-Contact Bolivia
This article presents findings from an interdisciplinary study of the Loma Salvatierra archaeological site, which contribute to the discussion about the origins of venereal syphilis by further clarifying a likely origin and route of transmission of syphilis from the Old World to the New.
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History of the Plague
These articles look at the historical sources that may help to trace the spread of the Plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, considering how it spread from East Asia to other parts of the world.
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E. O. Wilson’s Biodiversity, Commodity Culture, and Sentimental Globalism
This essay discusses Biodiversity, the 1988 landmark collection of papers edited by American biologist E. O. Wilson, which established biodiversity as a popular scientific concept.
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Economic Diversity as a Performative Ontological Project
This article argues that in exploring the hypothesis that diversity creates resilience, we need to go beyond the simple notion that economic diversity is an unquestioned good.
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The Work of Wildness: Diversity and Difference in a Southwest Alaskan Salmon Fishery
What is the relationship of diversity to difference? This essay approaches the question through an examination of a wild salmon fishery in southwest Alaska and the industry dynamics through which salmon are reconfigured into changing commodities.
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Pitfalls and Opportunities in the Use of the Biodiversity Concept as a Political Tool for Forest Conservation in Brazil
This article looks at how the biodiversity concept has been used in relation to forest conservation in Brazil.
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Contentious Diversities and Dangerous Species: Biocultural Diversity in the Context of Human-Animal Conflicts
This article engages with such questions by focusing on the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary of Kerala in southern India, arguing that a reconceptualization of both “culture” and “nature” will be necessary in order to prevent the concept of biocultural diversity from appearing as just another form of “green neocolonization” or “eco-imperialism.”
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The Politics of Making Biocultural Diversity
This essay highlights the temporal and conceptual novelty of biocultural diversity, considering how we can understand biocultural diversity in relation to power, history, and the role of governance. The essay shows how these questions arise by looking at their emergence in Southwest China’s Yunnan Province.