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“Crude Encounters”
This artistic contribution explores sensory engagement with contamination caused by oil-waste pits in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
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“Can Brussels and Beijing Get It Right? Twenty-First Century Ecological Geopolitics”
China and the United States are in a fierce competition, but what about Europe? Spotlighting “twenty-first century ecological politics,” environmental studies and public policy scholar Sophia Kalantzakos wonders: “Can Brussels and Beijing get it right?”
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“Fishing for Sharks”
In this Springs article, Miles Powell discusses the history of shark fishing and the impact it had on shark populations as well as how these practices have evolved to this day.
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“Mother Drone, Mother Nature: The Griffon Vulture and Israel’s Military”
This essay examines how military, technology, and nature converge in the Israeli griffon vulture project and what politics stand behind it.
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“Coal, War, and Peace in Twentieth-Century Europe”
Franz-Josef Brüggemeier outlines the history one of the most crucial energy source of twentieth-century Europe in this article. “Coal returned to center stage again and again. In both world wars, coal provided the material basis for the atrocities committed and was of decisive importance in the subsequent search for lasting peace.”
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“The Isthmus of Panama and the Knowledge Anthropocene”
In this Springs article, historian Paul S. Sutter considers the “Knowledge Anthropocene” as well as deep time in George Perkins Marsh’s understanding of the construction of Panama’s Darién canal.
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"The Affective Legacy of Silent Spring"
Alex Lockwood tries to measure the importance of Rachel Carson’s work in its affective influence on contemporary environmental writing across the humanities.
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“Old Myths, New Bottles: Contribution to GTI Forum Big History and Great Transition.”
This short piece by former Rachel Carson Center fellow Lisa Sideris is a contribution to the Great Transition Initiative’s forum Big History and Great Transition.
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“Environmental History’s Usable Past: On Reviving the Scholarship of Synthesis”
A reflection on the historical approach to synthesis as a part of the toolbox of environmental history, with a focus on Lewis Mumford.
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"Listening to Birds in the Anthropocene: The Anxious Semiotics of Sound in a Human-Dominated World"
Andrew Whitehouse considers the semiotics of listening to birds in the Anthropocene by drawing on Kohn’s recent arguments on the semiotics of more-than-human relations and Ingold’s understanding of the world as a meshwork, and comparing the work of Bernie Krause with responses to the the Listening to Birds project.