Arcadia
The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Novaya Zemlya
Polar bears invade Russian archipelago and town in Novaya Zemlya, northern Russia.
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Mateship with Birds: An Australian Plea for Conservation
An early Australian conservationist offers a window onto the ways in which nature was once valued.
Perspectives
New Histories of Pacific Whaling
This volume provides new histories of Pacific whaling from untold perspectives.
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Seed Oysters in Entangled Worlds: Ecological Disturbances, Knowledge Making, and Potentialities in Miyagi, Japan
This article focuses on the contingent practices that constitute oyster aquaculture in contemporary Japan and the multiple forms of more-than-human entanglements that emerge as a result.
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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.
Exhibition chapter
Víðerni and Öræfi—Icelandic | Wilderness Babel
The chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by historian Unnur Karlsdóttir, analyzes the Icelandic notion of wilderness which refers to the natural landscape as a space, as a visual experience, sublime and aesthetic.
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Virtuous Bees: How Beekeeping Helps Protect Primary Forests in the Russian Far East
This article discusses forest beekeeping in the Russian Far East and its unique role in protecting primary forests in the context of Aristotelian ethics.
Exhibition chapter
About the Exhibition | Ecopolis München 2019
Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery is an exhibition on Munich’s environmental histories. It showcases the final projects of students in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. The stories told in this exhibition ask: to whom does the urban world belong? What do we want the urban environment of the future to look like?
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The War Against the Goats in Interwar Greece
This article investigates forest policy in the period of dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas in Greece.
Perspectives Article
Searching for Gigi: Captivity, Culture, and the Pacific Coast’s Embrace of Gray Whales
Jason Colby explores the role of one female gray whale in shaping human perceptions of her species and their status in the wild.