Arcadia
Views from Above: Light Airplanes and Wildlife Research and Management in the Serengeti during the 1950s and 1960s
In the 1960s, real-time aerial observations supported mixed forms of land use in African national parks.
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ASLE EcoCast: Justice Matters: Bénédicte Boisseron, Animal Studies, and Racial Justice
In this episode of ASLE’s official podcast, Jemma Deer and Brandon Galm interviews Bénédicte Boisseron, author of Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question.
Multimedia | book, full-text
“Zwischen Staunen und Zweifeln” [Between amazement and doubt]
Full text of Peter Niedersteiner’s dissertation, “Zwischen Staunen und Zweifeln.”
Multimedia | book excerpt
Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question
Excerpt from Bénédicte Boisseron’s book Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question.
Perspectives Article
The American Animal Welfare Movement and Pacific Whaling
Lissa Wadewitz juxtaposes the American animal welfare movement with American whaling crews.
Perspectives Article
Oil, Spermaceti, Ambergris, and Teeth: Products of the Nineteenth-Century Pacific Sperm-Whaling Industry
Nancy Shoemaker considers the four main products harvested in the nineteenth-century sperm whale trade.
Perspectives Article
Māori Women in Southern New Zealand’s Shore-Whaling World
Kate Stevens and Angela Wanhalla explore the role of Māori women in nineteenth-century shore-whaling.
Perspectives Article
Newspaper Stories Promoting Local Nineteenth-Century Shore-Based Whaling in Hawaiian Waters
Susan A. Lebo analyzes three decades of newspaper articles reporting whaling in Hawaiian waters from the 1840s.
Perspectives Article
Whaling, Tabua, and Cokanauto
Vicki Luker details the important role played by tabua—or whales’ teeth—in Fijian history.
Perspectives Article
Whaling at the Margins: Drift Whales, Ainu Laborers, and the Japanese State on the Nineteenth-Century Okhotsk Coast
Noell Wilson details Japanese attempts to integrate modern-day Hokkaido into the Tokugawa political sphere via drift-whale policy.