pandemics

Full open-access volume Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for the Environmental Humanities (2026), edited by Emily Brownell.

Full open-access volume Rural Transitions in Mongolia and Central Asia: Pastoralism, Wellbeing and Economic Relations (2026), edited by Ariell Ahearn, Gantulga Munkherdene, and Takahiro Ozaki.

This manuscript adopts an interspecies perspective on the One Health laboratory and argues that scientific care for sampled bats may cement hierarchies, with consequences for samplers and animals.

This review of Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary, published by Christos Lynteris on the brink of the COVID-19 epidemic, problematises the tension between a dominant pandemic imaginary, perpetuated by outbreak preparedness policies and the media, and an emergent imaginary, historically and geographically.

In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Ailton Krenak is interviewed on his recent book, Life Is Not Useful.

Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death, edited by Monica H. Green, is available to download in its entirety.

In this commentary, Bejoy Thomas, Soumyajit Bhar, and Shoibal Chakravarty caution against optimistic narratives of environmental revival.