This article for the Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities section explores the way that humans have conceptualized the future, and how this conceptualization has shaped humanity’s interactions with nature.
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Jamie Lorimer uses the concept of awkwardness to discuss encounters between humans and the Auks, a family of maritime birds found on remote coastlines in cooler, Northern waters.
In this commentary, Rich Hutchings outlines his personal vision for the Environmental Humanities.
Kelsey Green and Franklin Ginn investigate the response to colony collapse disorder (CCD) of a committed group of beekeepers, examining the philosophies and practices of alternative apiculture along two axes: the gifts of honey and poison; longing, connection, and bee-worship.
This article studies the history of the debate regarding the origins of the venereal syphilis that “emerged” in Europe at the end of the fifteenth century.
Engineering the Lower Shinano River in northeastern Japan expanded the risk of other flood and tsunami damage.
Effective strategies for rat control based on ecology were invented in Baltimore in the 1940s. The program, however, did not last.
This article studies mobilization against GMOs in Portugal since the 1990s.
How Australian historical documents resolved questions about an unusual merganser specimen from Korea at the American Museum of Natural History.
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