Perspectives Article
The Cattle Guard
Etienne Benson considers the role that material interventions into the vernacular landscape play in solidifying our understandings of bodily difference across species.
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Making Worlds with Crows: Philosophy in the Field
Thom van Dooren draws on his current research on people’s shifting relationships with crows around the world to outline some of the core questions and approaches of “field philosophy.”
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Interspecies Care in a Hybrid Institution
Recognizing elephants as moral actors in the institutional space of the elephant stable, Piers Locke reconceives traditionally humanist ethnography as interspecies ethnography.
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Of Mice and Men: Ecologies of Care in a Climate Chamber
Veit Braun explores the troubling and often contradictory nature of care, revealing the restrictions of simplifying the duality of caring or violent states.
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Earth First! A Citizen’s Guide to the U.S. Forest Service: Managing for Extinction
This Earth First! tabloid describes negative impacts of the U.S. Forest Service on national forests. Topics include reform proposals for the USFS, the role of deep ecology, the destruction of eco-systems across the U.S., abuse of Native American cultural heritage, and a call for the protection of national forests.
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Schlangenlinien: Eine Geschichte der Kreuzotter
Schlangenlinien examines the history of the European Viper and the shift from extermination policies to those of protection and rehabilitation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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“Hit them hard and hit them well.” Possums, Pollution, and the Past in Aotearoa/New Zealand
The killing of possums as “pests” is framed as a caring relationship towards Aotearoa/New Zealand’s natural environment.
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Projektion Natur: Grüne Gentechnik im Fokus der Wissenschaften
Projektion Natur is a collection of articles contextualising “green” genetic engineering within the debate about nature and society.
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A Century of Parks Canada, 1911–2011
Over the past century, the Parks Canada agency has been at the center of important debates about the place of nature in Canadian nationhood and relationships between Canada’s diverse ecosystems and its communities. This edited volume explores its history as a rich repository of experience, of lessons learned—critical for making informed decisions about how to sustain the environmental and social health of Canada’s national parks.
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NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment
Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE) is a Canadian-based confederation of researchers and educators who study nature and humans in Canada’s past.