A chapter of the virtual exhibition “Beyond Doom and Gloom: An Exploration through Letters,” this letter discusses an alternative understanding of the crisis of Western societies. The exhibition is curated by environmental educator Elin Kelsey.
This German-language version of Sabine Wilke’s virtual exhibition features short excerpts from German-language literary texts that address human-nature entanglements. The aim is to show how literature can contribute to understanding and problematizing the relation between humans and nonhuman nature. What aspects of human-nature relations are addressed, at what point in literary history, and how are they shaped poetically? For the English-language version of this exhibition, click here.
What role does Vernadsky’s concept of the noosphere plays in contemporary Russian environmental legislation and green economy discourses?
Tyson Farms, Inc. spills 220,000 gallons of effluent into the Black Warrior River, killing over two hundred thousand fish.
An essay on Russian imperialism and the entanglement of the geologic and the military.
In 2000, the government restored land resources to the indigenous people of Zimbabwe. The chaotic land reform caused widespread environmental problems.
Is it possible to conserve the Galápagos Islands as a “natural laboratory” in the Anthropocene?
The sea gives and the sea takes away. The story of the submerged forest at Redcar, England.
Rivers need property rights so that humans can live with floods.
Ecoanxiety in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein signals our ability to create art in reaction to environmental disaster in increasingly unstable planetary futures.
