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Inhuman Nature
This collection of essays maps the heterogeneous and asymmetrical ecologies within which we are enmeshed, a material world that makes the human possible but also offers difficulties and resistance.
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Exhibition chapter
Structures of Inequality | Toxic Relationships
Chapter 3 of the virtual exhibition Toxic Relationships: Uncovering the Worlds of Hazardous Waste.
Arcadia
Disconnectivity in the Age of Globalization: Coastal Ecology, Telegraphy, and Empire in the Sunda Strait, 1863–1883
This article examines the environmental implications of Dutch nineteenth-century attempts to establish a telegraph connection across the Sunda Strait.
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Interview with Alison F. Richard, author of Sloth Lemur's Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Alison F. Richard is interviewed on her recent book, Sloth Lemur’s Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present.
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“The Amazon as a Microcosm of the Anthropocene: Harald Sioli and the Ecological Globalization of the Tropical Rainforest”
In this video, RCC Landhaus Fellow André Felipe Cândido de Silva presents on “The Amazon as a Microcosm of the Anthropocene: Harald Sioli and the Ecological Globalization of the Tropical Rainforest.”
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Interview with Thom van Dooren, author of The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, former RCC visiting scholar Thom van Dooren interviewed on his recent book, The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds.
Perspectives Article
Compressed Cosmopolitanization
In her personal essay “Compressed Cosmopolitanization,” Stefania Gallini’s recounts her feelings of dissonance of joining a reading group focused on risk and Ulrich Beck’s work in safe Munich, while coming from the megalopolis of Bogotá, where risk is a daily reality.
Perspectives Article
Risk and Power
Cheryl Lousley critiques Beck’s abstract vision of global risk and cosmopolitanism for overlooking power dynamics essential to environmental justice.
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Earth First! 31, no. 2
The second volume of the 30th anniversary edition of Earth First! features the topics of industrial agriculture, history and resistance to MTE in Appalachia, direct action for Orangutans in Borneo, and native perspectives on ecology.
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Earth First! Journal 21, no. 8
In Earth First! Journal 21, no. 8 Urraca reports from the G8 protests in Genoa, Italy, Dr. Zoidberg discusses the hidden statistics of environmental refugees, Lone Wolf Circles reflects on biocentrism, and a special journal insert presents the defense of the Southern Plains.