Syllabi in Environment and Society
Short profiles of university and course syllabi, and collaborative syllabi projects on Environment and Society.
Anthropocene
“Radical Environmentalism’s Print History: From Earth First! to Wild Earth.”
In this essay (updated in 2019), Bron Taylor offers background about the events that gave rise to the Earth First! movement and reviews some of the watershed moments in its history, including its print publications.
“Growing Up amid Environmental Change: A Conversation with Jan David Hauck”
Jan David Hauck and Pooja Nayak discuss how changing environments change our language and morals.
“The Inhuman Condition: Rethinking Anthropocentrism”
In an increasingly inhumane world, this article argues that socioecological justice can only be achieved by embracing human nature.
“Staying Open: Shaping Environmental History in Sweden”
A reflection on how environmental history emerged in Sweden.
“In a Northern Sandbox: A World Congress in Finland”
An account of how the 2024 World Congress of Environmental History developed from idea to reality, and of what this trajectory says about environmental historical scholarship today.
“Rivers as Battlefields: Ukraine’s Dnipro”
Ukraine’s Dnipro River and nearby inhabitants have lived through brute-force environmental change and war over the last century.
“Ecological Constitutionalism: A Necessity”
In view of the escalating environmental crisis, the democratic states of the Global North must ecologically transform their social and constitutional orders.
Biodiversity: Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America II
Full text of the second volume of The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America.
The Emergence of the Hero-Hunter in the Greek Anthropocene
Arcadia, Autumn 2024, no. 12