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The Emergence of the Hero-Hunter in the Greek Anthropocene
On masculinity, hunting, and the evolving Hero-Hunter concept in the 1960s Greek Anthropocene.
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“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 | journal article
“The Nutmeg’s Curse”
Writer and anthropologist Amitav Ghosh takes us to the Banda Islands to unravel “The Nutmeg’s Curse.”
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“The Unbearable Weight of Displaced Weather”
Human geographer Mike Hulme looks at sociotechnical developments that have changed the climate and, at the same time, the way we experience the weather.
Multimedia | Env. blogs & websites
Syllabi in Environment and Society
Short profiles of university and course syllabi, and collaborative syllabi projects on Environment and Society.
Multimedia | film profile
“Deep Ecology & the American Conservation Movement”
Dive into a pivotal 1993 lecture by renowned Professor Bron Taylor as he unravels the complex tapestry of the American conservation movement. This insightful presentation offers a panoramic view, tracing the philosophical and spiritual roots that shaped environmental thought and action, particularly focusing on the rise of the deep ecology movement and what Taylor terms “pagan environmentalism.”
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“Dave Foreman at UW Oshkosh with Bron Taylor”
The lecture features environmental activist Dave Foreman, introduced by Bron Taylor at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh in 1990. The event situates Foreman’s ideas within the emerging discourse on radical environmentalism and its ethical foundations.
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Miyaoi Yasuo’s Perspective on Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan: Intersecting Humans and Animals, Shared Emotions and Ethics
Miyaoi Yasuo’s 1858 collection of tales, Kidan zasshi, challenges assumed human–animal boundaries, portraying shared ethics, reincarnation, and emotional connections by blending folklore and insights drawn from Edo-period experience.
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Time After the Hero—Or, in Proposing the Age of the Anthropoiescene | Ghosh in Munich
The Age of the Anthropoiescene is a time of sympoietic tanglings with the human and more-than-human ghosts of deep time.
Perspectives Article
Recapturing Justice and Passion in Enviromental History: A Future Path
Jane Carruthers traces the development of environmental history, showing how it emerged in the 1970s from the environmental movement with a focus on addressing urgent issues such as resource depletion, climate change, and sustainability, while aiming to bridge the sciences and humanities.