Short profiles of university and course syllabi, and collaborative syllabi projects on Environment and Society.
First chapter of the virtual exhibition “Wetland Times,” “Imaginaries.”
Wetlands are ecologically dynamic and vulnerable landscapes where multiple temporalities, human and nonhuman, intersect and challenge one another. This virtual exhibition explores the dynamic temporalities of wetlands and their complex relationships—the temporal imaginaries, narratives, structures, flows, (a)synchronicities, and ruptures they contain—framed by a conceptual vocabulary that reveals the role of language in understanding wetland times and temporalities. Our examples draw on case studies from three wetlands: the Wadden Sea in Northern Europe; Morecambe Bay, in the northwest of the United Kingdom; and the Dja-Et-Lobo region in southern Cameroon, focusing specifically on wetland areas near settlements of the Baka people.
About the Exhibition
Anthropologist Paolo Gruppuso and geographer Erika Garozzo ruminate on the life of Sicily’s largest but now disappearing river—the Simeto.
In a carbon-sequestering wetland on Maine’s Mid-Coast, a quirky human-beaver relationship unfolds each year.
Emmanuelle Roth and Gregg Mitman write about how capitalism fragments nature to create value. Such fragments can precipitate biodiversity loss.
This essay brings previously underexplored paths of political ecology, environmental history, and even biosemiotics and plant neurophysiology in Italo Calvino’s The Baron in the Trees (1957) to light.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo, and Wilko Graf Von Hardenberg are interviewed on their recent book, Mussolini’s Nature: An Environmental History of Italian Fascism.
A book exploring the world of succulent collecting.
