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Ngarrindjeri Whaling Narratives and Reconciliation at Encounter Bay, South Australia
Adam Paterson and Chris Wilson consider Ngarrindjeri contributions to Southern Australia’s nineteenth-century whaling industry.
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Whales and Whaling in Puget Sound Coast Salish History and Culture
Jonathan Clapperton details the importance of whaling to Puget Sound Coast Salish people (Puget Salish) along the Pacific Northwest Coast.
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Te Aitanga a Hauiti and Paikea: Whale People in the Modern Whaling Era
Billie Lythberg and Wayne Ngata explore what it means to be whale people in the modern whaling period.
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Whale Peoples and Pacific Worlds
Joshua L. Reid concludes that the history of Pacific whaling has undergone a scholarly renaissance.
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Strata and Three Stories
This volume addresses our understanding of the Anthropocene and its challenges, and suggests that multidisciplinarity and storytelling play key roles in devising resilient solutions.
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The Anthropocene Earth System and Three Human Stories
Julia Adeney Thomas explores three types of narrative that are emerging as people try to get to grips with the Anthropocene and their potential for steering our future course.
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Revisiting Risk Society: A Conversation with Ulrich Beck
In this issue of RCC Perspectives, a group of scholars reflect on Ulrich Beck’s influential Risk Society (1986). They seek to critically historicize the concept of risk society, considering how it might be a product of its particular time and place as well as what it means for public debate and scholarship in the early twenty-first century.
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Historicizing Risk
In “Historicizing Risk,” historian Lawrence Culver explores Ulrich Beck’s theories on the nature of risk on a temporal scale, and asks how awareness and perceptions of risk changed from the “first” modernity to now, and how that relates to the global issue of climate change.
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On the Role of Natural Hazards and Catastrophes
Historian Uwe Lübken examines how the perception of natural hazards and catastrophes shifts from being historically seen as “Acts of God” to now being viewed as side effects of modernization and a social responsibility.
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Compressed Cosmopolitanization
In her personal essay “Compressed Cosmopolitanization,” Stefania Gallini’s recounts her feelings of dissonance of joining a reading group focused on risk and Ulrich Beck’s work in safe Munich, while coming from the megalopolis of Bogotá, where risk is a daily reality.