The Ecology of Home
About this issue
This essay examines environmental thought in China and the West to propose an “ecological history” that offers new ways to think about the human/nature relationship.
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Of Storms, Floods, and Flying Sharks: The Extreme Weather Hero in Contemporary American Culture
Susanne Leikam explores the extreme weather hero and performed masculinity in contemporary American pop culture through an analysis of the 2013 film Sharknado.
Men and Nature: Hegemonic Masculinities and Environmental Change
About this issue
The essays in this collection explore how masculine roles, identities, and practices shape human relationships with the more-than-human world.
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Life Size Memories
Two former photojournalists bring a large format camera to Southeast Asia to portray Asian elephants living in captivity and to record their biographies.
On Garbage
By detailing the waste we have discarded, John Scanlan argues that we can learn new things about the building blocks of our culture; he throws new light on the modern condition by examining not what we have kept, but what we have thrown away.
The Transformative Craft of Environmental History: Perspectives on Australian Scholarship
Tom Griffiths argues for the importance of environmental history, and gives us three reasons for the uniqueness of the environmental history of Australia.
Visions of Australia: Environments in History
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The contributions in this volume explore the way that Australasian environments have been envisioned, worked, and changed in the past, and how ideas about places inform the present and future of the continent.
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Weltmeere: Wissen und Wahrnehmung im langen 19. Jahrhundert
Weltmeere examines society’s relationship with the oceans in the nineteenth century, through subjects such as whale fishing, polar expeditions, the sea in literature and psychology, and marine studies.
Euer Dorf soll schöner werden: Ländlicher Wandel, staatliche Planung und Demokratisierung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Euer Dorf soll schöner werden captures the transformation of Germany’s rural landscape through modernization between 1961 and 1979, through the inter-village contest, “Unser Dorf soll schöner werden” (“May our village become more beautiful”).
Barton, Harry, "The Isle of Harris Superquarry: Concepts of the Environment and Sustainability"
Harry Barton examines a 1991 proposal to embark upon the largest mining project in Europe, on the remote island of Harris and Lewis in Scotland. He argues that different groups perceive their environments differently, and pleads for a wider recognition of this diversity, as well as expansions of concepts of development and sustainability.