David Blackbourn highlights how environmental history reflects broader shifts in the historical discipline, such as the renewed focus on place, materiality, and “big history.”
Shiho Satsuka investigates the cultural and ecological significance of the matsutake mushroom in Japan.
Shen Hou reflects on the influence of Donald Worster’s Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s on his understanding of environmental history.
An exploration of the apple-growing culture and landscape of the island of Jersey through one of its little-known dishes.
Håvald Hansen of Fanasgieddi in Tana emphasizes that sustaining Sami fishing traditions, local control, and respect for salmon are essential to protecting cultural identity and livelihoods despite legal and environmental challenges.
Bjarne Johansen advocates for the restoration of coastal Sami fishing rights and stricter limits on river and salmon farming practices to protect wild salmon, cultural traditions, and fjord communities from environmental and regulatory harm.
Marianne Balto highlights how the Sami Parliament works to protect Sami rights, culture, and livelihoods by promoting sustainable salmon management, traditional knowledge, and responsible industry practices across Norway and beyond.
The second chapter of”Wetland Times,” “Narratives.”
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
Excerpt from Species Cleansing: The Cultural Practice of Rat Control by Gabriela Jarzębowska.
