Multimedia | journal article
“The Value of Fragments: Making a Hotspot in Mount Nimba, Liberia”
Emmanuelle Roth and Gregg Mitman write about how capitalism fragments nature to create value. Such fragments can precipitate biodiversity loss.
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Multimedia | journal article
“Killing a Baboon: Applied History and the Anthropocene Ape”
Processing the horrid February 2025 “Killing [of] a Baboon” by a group of schoolchildren in Delmas, South Africa, Sandra Swart looks back at history and examines the role of superstition and the occult in the ongoing violence against these primates.
Multimedia | podcast
“Anna Barcz on the Historiography of Rivers”
In this podcast episode, Michał Kępski speaks with Anna Barcz about her research on the historiography of rivers focusing on the interdisciplinary study of rivers, both as physical entities and cultural symbols.
Exhibition chapter
Woman of the Dunes | Once Upon a Dune
A reflection on dunes through the perspective of history by Joana Gaspar de Freitas.
Perspectives Article
Playing with Risk
Gijs Mom illustrates how risk can be thrilling and playful, challenging Ulrich Beck’s fear-centered view.
Multimedia | book, full-text
Species Cleansing: The Cultural Practice of Rat Control
Excerpt from Species Cleansing: The Cultural Practice of Rat Control by Gabriela Jarzębowska.
Perspectives Article
Whaling, Tabua, and Cokanauto
Vicki Luker details the important role played by tabua—or whales’ teeth—in Fijian history.
Perspectives Article
What is a Whale? Cetacean Value at the Bering Strait, 1848–1900
Bathsheba Demuth looks at the value of whales for indigenous peoples around the Bering Strait.
Perspectives Article
Te Aitanga a Hauiti and Paikea: Whale People in the Modern Whaling Era
Billie Lythberg and Wayne Ngata explore what it means to be whale people in the modern whaling period.