The Struggle for Air: Mining, Dust, and Death on the South African Rand
Arcadia, Spring 2023, no. 6
industrialization
Interview with Kristin Poling, author of Germany's Urban Frontiers: Nature and History on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century City
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Kristin Poling is interviewed on her recent book, Germany’s Urban Frontiers: Nature and History on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century City.
“‘We’ May Be in This Together, but We Are Not All Human and We Are Not One and the Same”
In this article, Rosi Braidotti explores the relation between posthumanism and the environmental humanities.
Women and Energy
About this issue
This volume of Perspectives offers a collection of largely untold stories that demonstrate women’s agency in energy transitions.
Content
The Polluted Past of the Whaling Town Hachinohe
Arcadia, Spring 2020, no. 16
A Killer Air: Delineating Disaster in Mexico City
Arcadia, Autumn 2019, no. 45
Cosmology of the Ergene River Pollution
Arcadia, Autumn 2019, no. 38
"Inorganic Becomings: Situating the Anthropocene in Puchuncaví"
The authors detail their experience of Puchuncavi, the largest, oldest, and most polluting industrial area in Chile. They approach it from a multidisciplinary viewpoint as an experience of the Anthropocene and advocate for an enhanced pedagogy of care born of our inherited pasts and of engagement, interest, and becoming as response-ability.
How Households Shape Energy Transitions: Canada’s Great Transformation
Ruth Sandwell examines people’s energy-related experiences in the transition from the organic to the mineral fuel regime in Canada.
The Power and the Water Project: Connecting Pasts with Futures
The Power and the Water: Connecting Pasts with Futures examines the nature of environmental connectivities since industrialization and how their legacies challenge us in the early 21st century.