When Environmentalists Crossed the Strait: Subsistence Whalers, Hippies, and the Soviets
Ryan Tucker Jones recounts how environmental activist organizations came into conflict with indigenous groups in the Bering Straight.
environmentalism
ASLE EcoCast: The Ego and the Eco: Alex Menrisky and the Identity Politics of Ecology
In this episode of ASLE’s official podcast, Jemma Deer and Brandon Galm interviews Alex Menrisky on his recent book Wild Abandon: American Literature and the Identity Politics of Ecology.
Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism
Excerpt from Mark R. Stoll’s Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism.
Interview with Anna M. Gade, author of Muslim Environmentalisms: Religious and Social Foundations
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Anna M. Gade is interviewed on her new book, Muslim Environmentalisms: Religious and Social Foundations.
Le Storie della Storia Ambientale: Esperienze da Germania e Italia
About this issue
Combinando memoria, esperienza e ricerca d’archivio, questo volume esplora la connessione tra lo storytelling e la storia ambientale in Germania e in Italia.
Content
Storytelling and Environmental History: Experiences from Germany and Italy
About this issue
Through a combination of memory, experience, and archival research, this volume explores the connection between storytelling and the writing of environmental histories in Germany and Italy.
Content
"Slamming the Anthropocene: Performing climate change in museums"
Libby Robin and Cameron Muir discuss representations of the Anthropocene in museums and events.
"The Global Challenge of Climate Change: Reflections from Australian and Nordic Museums"
Libby Robin compares two major museum exhibitions on climate change that rely heavily on the IPCC models: Uppdrag Klimat (Mission: Climate Earth), at the Royal Natural History Museum in Stockholm (Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet), Sweden; and EcoLogic, at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
"Environmental Leaders and Indigenous Engagement in Australia: A Cosmopolitan Endeavour?"
Drawing on interviews with 25 Australian environmental leaders, the authors ask how international instruments with cosmopolitan ambitions influence the discourse and practice of national and subnational environmentalists attempting to find common ground with Indigenous groups.
"Seeing Environmental Violence in Deep Time: Perspectives from Contemporary Mongolian Literature and Music"
This article focuses on contemporary literary and musical interpretations of changing relationships between humans and the environment in Mongolia. The author explores how these works relate to deep time, and crosshatches biographical, mythological, and geologic understandings of time.