Paul Josephson discusses the project he worked on during his Carson Fellowship, from August to December 2011: an environmental history of the Soviet Arctic.
British Arctic explorers lacked local knowledge of the environments through which they passed and sometimes consulted Inuit shamans, whose geographical knowledge was known to be extensive. One expedition to seek the Northwest Passage exemplifies how they supplemented their deficit with indigenous environmental knowledge.
Part of the scientific agenda of the British Arctic land expedition of 1819-22 was to investigate whether the appearance of the aurora borealis was accompanied by any sound.
A cultural critique of zoos that seeks to problematize their role as a sanctuary for animals.
An investigation into the introduction of European diseases to native peoples on the Pacific Northwest coast (North America).
This book is a collection of papers from one of the first major US conferences on environmental history, which took place 1–3 January 1982 at the University of California’s Irvine campus, and brought together over 100 scholars active in the field.
This book presents the socio-environmental history of black people around Kuruman, on the edge of the Kalahari in South Africa.
Anya Zilberstein, Carson Fellow from February 2012 until July 2012, talks about her project on prison gardens, especially the work of Count Rumford (Benjamin Thompson), who designed Munich’s English Garden in the late eighteenth century.
Anna Tsing’s essay opens a door to multispecies landscapes as protagonists for histories of the world.
Wild Earth 7, no. 3 features contributions by Bill McKibben on “Job and Wilderness;” Donald Worster on “The Wilderness of History;” Richard Harris on the rivers of Catalonia, Spain; and Andrew Kroll and Dwight Barry on the integration of conservation and community in Colorado.
