Trees are also entangled with politics. In “An Otherworldly Species: Joshua Trees and the Conservation-Climate Dilemma” historian Thomas M. Lekan discusses what he considers a false choice between climate protection and conservation.
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Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with William San Martín.
China and the United States are in a fierce competition, but what about Europe? Spotlighting “twenty-first century ecological politics,” environmental studies and public policy scholar Sophia Kalantzakos wonders: “Can Brussels and Beijing get it right?”
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Bruno Latour.
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Nina Wormbs.
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Jared Margulies.
This article brings together feminist technoscience and more-than-human theory on care with Lacanian psychoanalytic theories of anxiety and desire.
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Miles Powell.
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Péter Makai.
On Lord Howe Island, writer Cameron Muir has a run-in with a nearly extinct species: the woodhen. In the 1970s, scientists counted just 15 birds. Now the number is around 300, yet he calls this an encounter with a ghost species and contemplates how the fate of the lone bird he meets overlaps with the fate of humans.