Life Size Memories
Two former photojournalists bring a large format camera to Southeast Asia to portray Asian elephants living in captivity and to record their biographies.
animals
Droughts and Scarcity before Independence in the Viceroyalty of New Granada, 1800–1810
Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 16
Attempts to Establish Eider Farms in the USSR, and Why These Failed
Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 14
The Good, the Bad, and the Ague: Defining Healthful Airs in Early Modern England
Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 12
“Hit them hard and hit them well.” Possums, Pollution, and the Past in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Arcadia, Spring 2017, no. 10
Schlangenlinien: Eine Geschichte der Kreuzotter
Schlangenlinien examines the history of the European Viper and the shift from extermination policies to those of protection and rehabilitation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Dead Zones and Toxic Algae Bloom in US Waters
Arcadia, Spring 2017, no. 7
Troubling Species: Care and Belonging in a Relational World
About this issue
The categories and the types of care we assign are very often tenuous and troubled in nature. The articles in this volume explore some of the intricacy, ambiguity, and even irony in our perceptions and approaches to “multispecies” relations.
Content
The Domestic Stain, or Maintaining Standards
Harriet Ritvo’s article complicates the categorical separation of “wild” and “domesticated” that has organized much Western thought on species distinctions. Ritvo invites us to think beyond the boundaries and fixedness of dominant concepts.
Small-Scale Fisheries versus Whale-Watching Tourism: The Story of Puerto López
Arcadia, Spring 2017, no. 3