Slow Hope: Rethinking Ecologies of Crisis and Fear
This essay explores the possibility of “slow hope” for positive environmental change.
This essay explores the possibility of “slow hope” for positive environmental change.
Matthew Schneider-Mayerson investigates the impact of climate fiction on American readers through a qualitative survey, and assesses the results based on concepts borrowed from ecocriticism, environmental psychology, and environmental communication.
The authors develop “composting” as a metaphor for their two main arguments: that certain feminist concepts and commitments are foundational to the environmental humanities, and that more inclusive feminist composting is necessary for the future of the field.
In 1969, the Danish environmental organization NOAH is established, following a spectacular happening at the University of Copenhagen.
Beth A. Bee studies the implementation of decentralized forms of environmental governance in Jalisco, Mexico, and the political and economic forces resulting in the marginalization of the municipalities affected by this project.
The authors promote the idea of “Natural Governance” as a new approach to conservation based on three pillars, namely ecology, cooperation, and cultural systems.
The first episode of the Crosscurrents podcast series focuses on the impact of oil on 20th-century plastic production, geopolitical conflict, and culture.
The second episode of the Crosscurrents podcast series focuses on how the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR) approaches issues of social justice and equity in their research.
The fifth episode of the Crosscurrents podcast series, John Sandlos interviews Ashlee Cunsolo on the concept of ecological grief among indigenous communities in Labrador, Canada; Sean Kheraj speaks about the history of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Project.
Frank de Vocht reviews The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life by Arthur Firstenberg.