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.
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When Environmentalists Crossed the Strait: Subsistence Whalers, Hippies, and the Soviets
Ryan Tucker Jones recounts how environmental activist organizations came into conflict with indigenous groups in the Bering Straight.
Perspectives Article
Ngarrindjeri Whaling Narratives and Reconciliation at Encounter Bay, South Australia
Adam Paterson and Chris Wilson consider Ngarrindjeri contributions to Southern Australia’s nineteenth-century whaling industry.
Perspectives Article
Whales and Whaling in Puget Sound Coast Salish History and Culture
Jonathan Clapperton details the importance of whaling to Puget Sound Coast Salish people (Puget Salish) along the Pacific Northwest Coast.
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.
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Whale Peoples and Pacific Worlds
Joshua L. Reid concludes that the history of Pacific whaling has undergone a scholarly renaissance.
Arcadia
Freshwater Fish Invasion as Deliberate Neglect: Unpacking Multispecies Colonialism in West Papua
Indonesian state experts introduced invasive species into West Papua, a deliberate ecological disruption that advances a colonial agenda disguised as development.
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Of Rust and Mold—The Insect Pin as a Token of Transimperial Cooperation
Tropical humidity necessitated a quest for rust-proof insect pins, determining which specimens could be preserved, which tools could be used, and ultimately what knowledge could be produced in the Dutch East Indies.
Arcadia
Insisting on Boars: How Villagers of Karaburun Employ their Knowledge of Multispecies Entanglements in Local Power Struggles
Villagers witness and push to maintain ecological relations in the face of development that has decimated olive groves and scattered fences and turbines.
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“Der Bartgeier”
This poem traces the complex relationship between humans and the largest bird of the Alps, the bone-eating bearded vulture (Bartgeier).