“The Place of the Moon”
Explore the Moon, the world, and the self in a lyrical essay with author Christopher Cokinos.
colonialism
Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid
A monograph on desert dystopias and the environmental origins of apartheid.
Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land
Full text of Tamar Novick’s Milk and Honey, a environmental history of the state that centers on the intersection of technology and religion in modern Palestine/Israel.
Land Use: Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America I
Full text of the first volume of The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America.
“Inequalities in the Land: Colonial Legacies and the Quest for Land Equity in Zimbabwe”
A reflection on the use of images in environmental history.
“From Slavery Plantations to Mass Tourism: A Project for a Synthesis of the Environmental History of the Greater Caribbean”
In this video, Reinaldo Funes Monzote (Hamburg Institute for Advanced Studies) presents his project “From Slavery Plantations to Mass Tourism: A Project for a Synthesis of the Environmental History of the Greater Caribbean.”
“The Return of Nature: Decolonial Reinhabitation and Self-Indigenisation in Kodagu, India”
In this article, former Carson Landhaus Fellow Subarna De contextualises the ecological and cultural practices of the Kodagu coffee plantations of Southern India within the post-/decolonial framework of bioregional reinhabitation.
Axes on the Ground: Wolves and Women on the North American Frontier
Arcadia, Autumn 2023, no. 19
“Land Use and Environmental Ideologies in British Mandate Palestine, 1917–1948”
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Mona Bieling.
Drimys winteri: Circulation of Environmental Ignorance in European Written Sources (1578–1776)
Arcadia, Summer 2023, no. 15