narratives
To Whom Does the Story Belong? Earthquake Memories, Narratives, and Policy in Italy
Nature in the Plural: Finding Common Ground for Nature Policies in Europe
Farjon et al. explore various narratives of nature and nature policies in the Netherlands.
Climate Change and the Industrial Revolution: Informing Policy through History, Memory, and Literature
Goodbody examines the literary work Pandaemonium and its role in a research project to promote debate on climate change.
"Invasive Narratives and the Inverse of Slow Violence: Alien Species in Science and Society"
Through a case study of the “invasive alien species” (IAS) narrative in South Africa, Susanna Lidström, Simon West, Tania Katzschner, M. Isabel Pérez-Ramos, and Hedley Twidle suggest that IAS oversimplifies the webs of ecological, biological, economic, and cultural relations to a simple “good” versus “bad” battle between easily discernible “natural” and “nonnatural” identities.
"Gestures of Cosmic Relation and the Search for Another Earth"
In this Special Section on Familiarizing the Extraterrestrial / Making Our Planet Alien, edited by Istvan Praet and Juan Francisco Salazar, Lisa Messeri concludes that outer space, far from being removed from Earthly matters, offers a different scale and perspective for examining technocultural relations.
The Ecology of Home
About this issue
This essay examines environmental thought in China and the West to propose an “ecological history” that offers new ways to think about the human/nature relationship.
Content
Every Day Like Today: Learning How to Be a Man in Love (An Excerpt from the Manuscript)
An excerpt from Alex Carr Johnson’s manuscript “Every Day Like Today: Learning How to Be a Man in Love.”
Of Storms, Floods, and Flying Sharks: The Extreme Weather Hero in Contemporary American Culture
Susanne Leikam explores the extreme weather hero and performed masculinity in contemporary American pop culture through an analysis of the 2013 film Sharknado.
Seeing the Woods
Seeing the Woods is the official blog of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.