Mosquitopia: The Place of Pests in a Healthy World
Full book co-edited by former Rachel Carson Center fellow Marcus Hall.
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Locust Infestations and Marginalized Communities in Colonial Western India in the Nineteenth Century
Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 12
Humans and Other Pollinators in the Oil Palm Plantation Complex
Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 8
“A healthy mountainous island surrounded by a sea of malaria”: Ecology and War in the Caucasus
Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 4
Xunáan Kab Rhythms: Native Bees and Ecological Change in Yucatan, Mexico
Arcadia, Summer 2020, no. 36
“From Mosquitoes to People”: Marston Bates and the Rockefeller Foundation International Health Division
This essay looks at the career of Marston Bates and his turn from mosquito researcher to public intellectual.
Virtuous Bees: How Beekeeping Helps Protect Primary Forests in the Russian Far East
Arcadia, Spring 2020, no. 11
"Toxic Bodies: Ticks, Trans Bodies, and the Ethics of Response-Ability in Art and Activist Writing"
Tracing ticks in two different artworks and Leslie Feinberg’s activist writing, Wibke Straube takes their lead in this article from philosopher Donna Haraway and her suggestion to think about engagement with the environment through an “ethics of response-ability.”
“Afterword: Crossing Time, Space, and Species”
In the afterword of a special section on toxic embodiment, Stacy Alaimo distills the collection’s argument for attending to the ways environments, human bodies, and nonhuman bodies are transformed by anthropogenic substances.
An Environmental History of Tobacco Pests and Diseases in Southern Rhodesia, 1893–1940
Arcadia, Summer 2019, no. 31