health

This is a commentary on COVID-19 and its relation to human and environmental systems.

This essay looks at the phenomenon of diabetes in the United States from the viewpoint of environmental history.

With a focus on global cancer epidemics, Nina Lykke discusses biopolitics in the Anthropocene against the background of a notion of dual governmentality, implying that efforts to make populations live and tendencies to let them die are intertwined.

In a special section entitled “Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities,” Sara J. Grossman reflects on the definition of disability and disabled communities within environmental humanities.

The third episode of the Crosscurrents podcast series focuses on the relationship between mental health and public safety for workers through the research conducted by Rose Ricciardelli, Associate Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Frank de Vocht reviews The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life by Arthur Firstenberg.

A woman and her family live next to a recycling plant in China, in mountains of plastic waste from Asia, Europe, and the U.S.This documentary reveals the lives of those on the fringes of global capitalist realities, a far cry from the communist dream.

In episode 55 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, SEan Kheraj speaks to Jessica van Horssen about her new book, A Town Called Asbestos.

John Reid-Hresko’s article draws on 18 months of comparative ethnographic research with men and women who are employed and reside in protected areas in northern Tanzania and South Africa’s Kruger National Park.