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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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Peat-Powered Berlin: The Role of Peat in the Urban Energy Transition in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Peat was a widely used fuel in mid-nineteenth-century Berlin that acted as a bridge in the energy transition between firewood and coal.
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Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms: Forays with Fungi across Hemispheres
Excerpt from Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms: Forays with Fungi across Hemispheres by Alison Pouliot.
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What Living in Space Teaches Us about Living on Earth
To live among the stars always meant solving the down-to-earth problem of sustainable waste management.
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Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783–1933
Traces the changing relationships between the fish resources and the people of the Great Lakes region.
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“Storying Monocrop Infrastructure: A Conversation on Governance, Scale, and Failure”
An interview of Kregg Hetherington by Sophie Chao.
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"Seed Care in the Palm Oil Sector"
Sophie Chao delves into an unexplored dimension of the agribusiness nexus—the affective attachments of corporate actors to oil palm seeds. Drawing from fieldwork in an oil palm concession in Riau, Sumatra, she highlights the conflicting nature of caring for palm oil seeds.
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“Plantation”
Sophie Chao on “Plantation” in the living lexicon of the journal Environmental Humanities.
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“An Environmental Escape from European Integration: Scandinavian Environmental Activism and Economic Protectionism against Disposable Bottles, 1960s to 1988”
“This article uses the disposable bottle as a lens through which to study how social actors in Scandinavia have engaged with and challenged European integration at the tension between environmental and economic interests.”