Perspectives Article
Whale Peoples and Pacific Worlds
Joshua L. Reid concludes that the history of Pacific whaling has undergone a scholarly renaissance.
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Perspectives Article
Whale Peoples and Pacific Worlds
Joshua L. Reid concludes that the history of Pacific whaling has undergone a scholarly renaissance.
Perspectives Article
Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and the Politics of Postcolonial Writing
Clapperton evaluates three existing frameworks for understanding Indigenous and non-Indigenous claims to know the environment. While each framework has its strengths, they reinforce a binary between Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge and keep salvage paradigms of Indigenous knowledge alive. Clapperton calls for an enlarged definition of Indigenous knowledge that could account for boundary-crossing and Indigenous people “doing” science.
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“Inequalities in the Land: Colonial Legacies and the Quest for Land Equity in Zimbabwe”
A reflection on the use of images in environmental history.
Arcadia
The Beavercene: Eradication and Settler-Colonialism in Tierra del Fuego
Once introduced to promote the fur industry, beavers in Tierra del Fuego are now deemed an invasive population to be eradicated.
Arcadia
Problematic Postage: Canada’s Claim to the Arctic through a Postage Stamp
In 1955, the Canadian Post Office Department issues a stamp to highlight its effective occupation of the High Arctic.
Perspectives
Asian Environments: Connections across Borders, Landscapes, and Times
This issue of RCC Perspectives offers insights into similarities and differences in the ways people in Asia have tried to master and control the often unpredictable and volatile environments of which they were part
Arcadia
Other-than-Human Survivance Against the Trent-Severn Waterway
Emerging from an Indigenous Nishnaabeg ontology, “survivance” calls for an understanding of other-than-human persons as agentially surviving and resisting colonial violence.
Arcadia
Botanizing in the Borderlands
In the 1790s, Spanish naturalists traveled the vast realms of the Spanish Americas to seek out useful and commodifiable resources.
Arcadia
A Question of Origins: Skeletal Evidence in the History of Venereal Syphilis
This article studies the history of the debate regarding the origins of the venereal syphilis that “emerged” in Europe at the end of the fifteenth century.