The Community Food Movement in the United Kingdom: 1960s to Present
Arcadia, Autumn 2018, no. 30
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Out of the Mountains: Changing Landscapes in Rural China
About this issue
Zhen Wang’s photo essay explores in detail how nearly 40 years of urbanization and rapid economic development have transformed the past, present, and future of the Yi population and of China’s rural and cultural landscapes.
Content
Breeding for the Future: Corn and Climate Change
Arcadia, Autumn 2018, no. 27
Nature's Past episode 48: "Ecotones and Saskatchewan History"
In episode 48 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Sean Kheraj speaks with Merle Massie about her book Forest Prairie Edge: Place History in Saskatchewan.
"Killing in More-than-human Spaces: Pasteurisation, Fungi, and the Metabolic Lives of Wine"
Jeremy Brice draws on ethnographic fieldwork among winemakers in South Australia to look at pasteurisation as a way to unsettle the assumption that only individual organisms can be killed, rendering other sites and spaces of killing visible.
Nature's Past episode 43: "Environmental Scholarship and Environmental Advocacy"
In episode 43 of Nature’s Past, Sean Kheraj speaks with scholars from the Toronto Environmental History Network about the relationship between environmental scholarship and environmental activism.
Peyote Veneration in Challenging Times: Issues of Land and Access in South Texas
Arcadia, Summer 2018, no. 19
HfE: Humanities for the Environment Observatories
The aim of the Humanities for the Environment Observatories (HfE) is to identify, explore, and demonstrate the contributions that humanistic and artistic disciplines make to solving global social and environmental challenges.
"The Reaches of Freedom: A Response to An Ecomodernist Manifesto"
In this Special Commentary Section titled “Replies to An Ecomodernist Manifesto,” edited by Eileen Crist and Thom Van Dooren, Eileen Crist considers the Manifesto’s point as view as one of humanism and freedom.
"The War between Amaranth and Soy: Interspecies Resistance to Transgenic Soy Agriculture in Argentina"
Katarzyna Olga Beilin and Sainath Suryanarayanan discuss the intertwined nature of movements of resistance by humans and plants struggling against genetically engineered soy monocultures in Argentina, which they provocatively conceptualize as interspecies resistance.