Watchful Lives in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
A book by Catherine Whittaker, Eveline Dürr, Jonathan Alderman, and Carolin Luiprecht on watchfulness and the fight against structural inequalities in US–Mexico borderlands.
environmental justice
“The Shifting Baseline Syndrome as a Connective Concept for More Informed and Just Responses to Global Environmental Change.”
In this article, the authors re-envision the ‘shifting baseline syndrome” in an ecological context.
Interview with Matthew S. Henry, author of Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Matthew S. Henry is interviewed on his recent book, Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition.
Conversations on Empathy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Imagination and Radical Othering
Full volume of Conversations on Empathy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Imagination and Radical Othering edited by Francesca Mezzenzana and Daniela Peluso.
Inger Andersen and Jane Goodall Are All In #ForNature
In this episode from Outrage + Optimism, hosts Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac, and Paul Dickinson discuss the importance of biodiversity, the role of nature, and environmental justice.
“A World Parliament of Rivers”
Rita Brara and María Valeria Berros argue for the importance of a legal recognition of rivers. “What we want for rivers now is an institution that can be entrusted with their environmental protection on a global scale.”
“‘We are the Dispossessed’: Displacement, Knowledge Production and Bare Life in West Bengali Climate Fiction”
An analysis of the book Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh.
“Approaches to Sustainable Happiness”
Greta Gaard on “Approaches to Sustainable Happiness.”
“The World as a Wardian Case”
In this article, historian Kate Brown considers the connections between plants, biospheres, and the politics of breathing. “What can the history of controlled environments tell us,” she asks, “about how we understand the planet today?”
Environment, Power, and Justice: Southern African Histories
This profile features the preface and afterword from Environment, Power, and Justice: Southern African Histories.