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“‘Everybody Talks About the Weather’”
The surprising career of the advertising slogan “everybody talks about the weather” is a story about political transformation.
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Multimedia | journal article
“Rain, Carson, Art, Salt: A Venetian Matrix”
Novelist Catherine Bush walks the streets of Venice, seeking art that engages with Rachel Carson at the Biennale Arte 2024.
Perspectives Article
Playing with Risk
Gijs Mom illustrates how risk can be thrilling and playful, challenging Ulrich Beck’s fear-centered view.
Perspectives Article
Enforced Cosmopolitanization and the Staging of Risks
Heike Egner critiques both the pessimism and idealism in Ulrich Beck’s risk theory, highlighting the limits of global cooperation and the role of science in amplifying risk.
Arcadia
Dunes, Development, and Delay: Climate Change Comes to Long Beach
An east-coast beachfront neighborhood faces a difficult decision about how to respond to storms and rising seas.
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Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences
Chapters from the Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences, edited by Elena Aronova, David Sepkoski, and Marco Tamborini.
Arcadia
NoMOSE: Contested Flood Barriers in Venice, Italy
In the early 2000s, a coalition of citizen-activists in Venice denounced the state’s massive flood-barrier project, raising public participation in the fate of the lagoon.
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“Child Socialisation and Environmental Transformation in Indigenous South America”
Chapters from the Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale special issue “Child Socialisation and Environmental Transformation in Indigenous South America,” edited by Jan David Hauck and Francesca Mezzenzana.
Perspectives Article
Old and New Patterns of the Anthropocene
Jan Zalasiewicz presents the mounting evidence of the Anthropocene as a proposed geological epoch and points to the possible trajectories of planet Earth.
Perspectives Article
“Dear _______”: Writing Our Way Beyond Doom and Gloom
In the introduction, Elin Kelsey argues for balancing negative environmental narratives with messages of hope to inspire positive action.