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Plastics in the Peaks: The Hidden Threat to Himalayan Wildlife
As Himalayan wildlife is endangered by improper waste disposal practices, activist groups like Waste Warriors are working to solve this crisis.
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Struggles over Water Rights and Legitimacy in Nairobi
In the face of neglect and exclusion, Nairobi slum dwellers have found ways to provide for themselves, diverting water from the grid and selling it to other residents.
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Culinary Claims: Indigenous Restaurant Politics in Canada
In this book, author and cultural historian L. Sasha Gora blends food studies with environmental history to explore how Indigenous restaurants reshape relationships between cuisine, land, and cultural identity in Canada.
Multimedia | book, full-text
Multispecies Ethnography and Artful Methods
Full text of Multispecies Ethnography and Artful Methods, edited by Andrea Petitt, Anke Tonnaer, Véronique Servais,
Catrien Notermans, and Natasha Fijn.
Perspectives Article
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.
Perspectives Article
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.
Perspectives Article
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.
Perspectives Article
Market Solutions?
Gordon Winder’s “Market Solutions?” explores neoliberal market solutions to risk within the context of Ulrich Beck’s Risk Society and his personal conversation with the latter.