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Confidence in a Confidence Man: A Banana-Disease “Solution” in Late Colonial Jamaica
This article examines a “cure” for Panama disease in 1930s Jamaica, highlighting an attempt to profit off ecological vulnerability.
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Our Bodies, Our Planet: A Parasite’s History of Us
Excerpt from Our Bodies, Our Planet: A Parasite’s History of Us by Marcus Hall.
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“Gerbils Without Borders: Invasiveness, Plague, and Micro-Global Histories of Science (1932–1939)”
Drawing upon archival records in Namibia, South Africa, Portugal, the United States, and the United Kingdom, this article argues that concerns over the spread of plague across land borders led to the development of a nascent invasive species framework which indicted border-crossing “migrant” South African gerbils for the international spread of the disease.
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Whale Fall | Ghosh in Munich
A poetic descent into illness parallels a whale fall, uncovering beauty, vulnerability, and new forms of living.
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Mendocino Environmental Center Newsletter, Issue 14
In this issue of Mendocino Environmental Center Newsletter, Susan Crane discusses who are the real vandals; Vicki Oldham writes about Clinton’s Forest Plan; and Mary Pjerrou brings up the issue of logging companies using new tactics to avoid the Timber Harvest Plan (THP) process.