Clapperton Chakanetsa Mayhunga reinterprets African environmental practices by foregrounding indigenous knowledge and innovation.
Stefan Dorondel writes about agrarian transformations and land-use changes in post-socialist Romania, focusing on the impact of massive social, economic, and political transformations on the natural environment.
Full text of the first volume of The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America.
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Mona Bieling.
In this Springs article, historian J. R. McNeill considers Chicago’s steel industry both past and present, and the history of the land.
Full text of Claire Lagier’s dissertation, “Constructing Legitimacy? Agroecology within and beyond the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST).”
Introduction to American Land Rush, a virtual exhibition by Sara Gregg.
Swept up in the optimism of the 1910s, Lily Stearns settled with her four children on a promising homestead in northeastern Montana, where she found her fate conscribed by extreme weather and the limits of her endurance. This richly illustrated virtual exhibition tells the story of one participant in the largest homestead boom in US history, revealing the erratic fortunes of farm life reflected in the abundant economic, political, and personal uncertainties of the era.
Sara M. Gregg
