Arcadia
Drimys winteri: Circulation of Environmental Ignorance in European Written Sources (1578–1776)
The article explores the circulation of environmental ignorance on Drimys winteri in European written sources in 1578–1776.
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Multimedia | podcast
Episode 1: “In the Burn Zone”
In this first episode of Archival Ecologies, Jayme Collins discusses the fallout of a devastating wildfire in a village in Lytton, British Columbia, in 2021 and interviews member of the community on the big questions that inspire and inflect the event.
Multimedia | podcast
Episode 3: “The Place of Objects”
The third episode of Archival Ecologies centers around Nlaka’pamux knowledge keeper John Haugen, who describes the meaning and the making of baskets in his community and the recovery of them after the wildfire.
Multimedia | podcast
Episode 4: “Weaving Community Knowledge: Nlaka’pamux Basketmaking”
The fourth episode of continues the Nlaka’pamux’ story of basket making through a discussion of the craft with basket makers Judy Hanna and Peter Sam, and their hopes for the continuation of basketry traditions in their community.
Arcadia
Twenty-One Millet Co-wives against One Rice Co-wife: Millet and Rice Cultivation in the Dandakaranya Forest, 1956–1987
The Indian government’s support for hybrid rice led to widescale deforestation in central India, disrupting Indigenous foodways based around the production and consumption of millets.
Multimedia | book excerpt
Culinary Claims: Indigenous Restaurant Politics in Canada
In this book, author and cultural historian L. Sasha Gora blends food studies with environmental history to explore how Indigenous restaurants reshape relationships between cuisine, land, and cultural identity in Canada.
Perspectives
Minding the Gap: Working Across Disciplines in Environmental Studies
This volume of RCC Perspectives considers what it means to work across disciplines in environmental studies and how such projects can best be realized.
Perspectives Article
Reconciling Theory and Practice: Transdisciplinary Insights from an Indigenous Case Study
In this essay, Angela Kreutz explores a transdisciplinary approach through a case study.
Multimedia | film profile
Maya Land: Listening to the Bees
A story about the environmental conflict between GM soy growers and Maya beekeepers in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico.
Multimedia | journal article
“Step Away”
Kata Beilin’s short story narrates of a scholar’s Amazonian journey, which awakens her from ambition’s illusion to the deeper truth of the interbeing in the forest.