Dear Optimistic Future Self
Cameron Muir’s letter explores the struggle to maintain hope amid despair, emphasizing the need to confront harsh realities rather than seek comfort in narratives.
environmental justice
Dear Little Rock: The Ironic Plot in Civil Rights and Environmental Historiography
Nicole Seymour reflects on leaving Little Rock, exploring the city’s civil-rights legacy alongside present challenges, and draws lessons on struggle and hope.
Risk and Power
Cheryl Lousley critiques Beck’s abstract vision of global risk and cosmopolitanism for overlooking power dynamics essential to environmental justice.
How Well Does Risk Society Speak Beyond the Global North?
Agnes Kneitz questions the global applicability of Beck’s risk theory, emphasizing culturally rooted perceptions and the limits of a Western framework.
“Storying Monocrop Infrastructure: A Conversation on Governance, Scale, and Failure”
An interview of Kregg Hetherington by Sophie Chao.
“Crude Encounters”
This artistic contribution explores sensory engagement with contamination caused by oil-waste pits in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
“Rivers as Battlefields: Ukraine’s Dnipro”
Ukraine’s Dnipro River and nearby inhabitants have lived through brute-force environmental change and war over the last century.
“Ecological Constitutionalism: A Necessity”
In view of the escalating environmental crisis, the democratic states of the Global North must ecologically transform their social and constitutional orders.
Urban Movements and Climate Change: Loss, Damage and Radical Adaptation
This edited volume takes the reader on an intellectual journey at the frontlines across global South and global North where climate breakdown meets social innovations.
Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction
An excerpt from Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction by former Carson Fellow Kate Rigby.