"Economic Stratification and Environmental Management: A Case Study of the New York City Catskill/Delaware Watershed"
In this article, Joan Hoffmann presents a case study of the New York City Catskill/Delaware watershed.
animals
"The Birth of a Research Animal: Ibsen's The Wild Duck and the Origin of a New Animal Science"
H.A.E. Zwart discusses Ibsen’s The Wild Duck as the origin of a new animal science.
"Risk, Trust and 'The Beyond' of the Environment: A Brief Look at the Recent Case of Mad Cow Disease in the United States"
Using a case of mad cow disease in the United States, this paper argues, statements of risk are ultimately social products that come to us by way of translation.
"Monkeywrenching, Perverse Incentives and Ecodefence"
In this paper, Derek D. Turner argues that by focusing too narrowly on consequentialist arguments for ecosabotage, environmental philosophers such as Michael Martin (1990) and Thomas Young (2001) have tended to overlook important facts about monkeywrenching.
Seeing the National Park from Outside It: On an African Epistemology of Nature
This paper explores the concept of “nature” from the perspective of African meanings and practices that were criminalised as poaching during and after the colonial moment.
The Biopolitics of the Border
This article discusses the resonances between animal territoriality and geopolitical borders.
The Edges of Environmental History: Honouring Jane Carruthers
About this issue
This volume of RCC Perspectives, featuring artwork by Australian artist Mandy Martin, is a tribute to the wonderful career of Jane Carruthers.
Content
"Beasts Versus the Biosphere?"
Mary Midgley explores if there is a necessary clash between concern for animals and concern for the environment as a whole.
Human-Animal Conflicts in Kerala: Elephants and Ecological Modernity on the Agrarian Frontier in South India
This article argues that in contemporary Wayanad in Kerala, southern India, human-animal relations are embedded in a history of ecological modernity composed of three modes of encounter between agrarian change (capitalist settler agriculture) and forest conservation (state-led and globalizing). It suggests that the notions of “frontier,” “fortress,” and (precarious) “conviviality” best capture the historical and emerging environmental relations in this environment of crisis.
The Last Yoik in Saami Forests?
The Last Yoik in Saami Forests? chronicles the logging damage that has taken place in the forests of Finnish Lapland over the past 50 years.