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Whale Peoples and Pacific Worlds
Joshua L. Reid concludes that the history of Pacific whaling has undergone a scholarly renaissance.
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Interview with David B Williams, author of A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, David B Williams is interviewed on his recent book, A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound.
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“A World Parliament of Rivers”
Rita Brara and María Valeria Berros argue for the importance of a legal recognition of rivers. “What we want for rivers now is an institution that can be entrusted with their environmental protection on a global scale.”
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Sight and Sound: Beyond the Huia Extinction Story
Beyond the 1907 Huia-extinction signposts, many voices, never silent, call for hearing as well as justice toward mending relations.
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Interview with Ronald L. Trosper, author of Indigenous Economics: Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Ronald L. Trosper is interviewed on his recent book, Indigenous Economics: Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands .
Multimedia | book excerpt
Watchful Lives in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
A book by Catherine Whittaker, Eveline Dürr, Jonathan Alderman, and Carolin Luiprecht on watchfulness and the fight against structural inequalities in US–Mexico borderlands.
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Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean
A book by Christina Gerhardt that weaves together essays, maps, art, and poetry to show us—and make us see—island nations in a warming world.
Multimedia | journal article
“‘We Have Always Known’: On the Trails of People, Plants, and Humboldt”
While reading Baron von Humboldt’s 1807 Essay on the Geography of Plants, Paula Unger writes about modern science creating boundaries between the human and the nonhuman, and how Indigenous understandings transcend them.
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Stevia as a Genetic Resource: Intellectual Property and Guaraní Strategies for Access-and-Benefit Sharing in Paraguay and Brazil
The Guaraní accused global corporations such as Coca Cola and Cargill of using their traditional knowledge associated with the stevia plant and filed for an access-and-benefit sharing agreement.
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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.