Arcadia
The Emergence of the Hero-Hunter in the Greek Anthropocene
On masculinity, hunting, and the evolving Hero-Hunter concept in the 1960s Greek Anthropocene.
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Winter Water and Mobility in Early Modern Amsterdam
During the Little Ice Age’s harsh winters, frozen waterways posed challenges and opportunities in the Dutch Republic.
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The Planting of the First National Forests in Brazil: Forest Policy and the Emergence of Tropical Forestry in the Nineteenth Century
In the nineteenth century, a water crisis in Rio de Janeiro resulted in the planting of forests, influencing the development of Brazil’s forestry policy and the emergence of tropical forestry.
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“Rivers as Battlefields: Ukraine’s Dnipro”
Ukraine’s Dnipro River and nearby inhabitants have lived through brute-force environmental change and war over the last century.
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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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“Home, Roots, Cosmos: A Path through Calvino’s Ecology”
This essay brings previously underexplored paths of political ecology, environmental history, and even biosemiotics and plant neurophysiology in Italo Calvino’s The Baron in the Trees (1957) to light.
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“Yoruba Architectural Sites in Nigeria”
Joseph Adeniran Adedeji shows how the cultural meaning of Yoruba heritage sites signify hope for a harmonious coexistence between society and the nonhuman world.
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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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“The Magic Mirror: Legends, Limnology, and Nuclear Power on Lake Stechlin”
The entwined history of legends, literature, limnology, and a Cold War nuclear power plant at Lake Stechlin in northeastern Germany.
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“Talking Fungus: Finding Language for a Troubled Kingdom”
Alison Pouliot writes about the pejorative language that has been used to describe fungi and how it has shaped our understanding of them.