“‘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.
environmental justice
“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.
Interview with Nadia Y. Kim, author of Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Nadia Y. Kim is interviewed on her recent book, Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA.
Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park
Safari Nation opens new lines of inquiry in the study of national parks in Africa and the rest of the world.
Gender and Sustainability: Lessons from Asia and Latin America
Full text of Gender and Sustainability.
Thoreau’s Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism
Excerpt from Thoreau’s Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism, a new interpretation of Thoreau’s Walden.
BREATHE
This animated short film taps into the deep pain of the pandemic, experienced by millions of people all over the world.
Interview with Kate Rigby, author of Reclaiming Romanticism: Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonisation
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Kate Rigby is interviewed on her book, Reclaiming Romanticism: Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonisation.