How Well Does Risk Society Speak Beyond the Global North?
Agnes Kneitz questions the global applicability of Beck’s risk theory, emphasizing culturally rooted perceptions and the limits of a Western framework.
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The Multiple Faces of Riskiness
Diana Mincyte analyzes how post-socialist risk discourses in Eastern Europe deflected attention from systemic upheaval, legitimizing capitalism while obscuring structural causes.
“‘Bats Who Harm’ and ‘Bats Who May Be Harmed’: The Interspecies Politics of Virus Sampling”
This manuscript adopts an interspecies perspective on the One Health laboratory and argues that scientific care for sampled bats may cement hierarchies, with consequences for samplers and animals.
“The Heat Is On!”
In this Springs article, historian Melanie Arndt examines how the foundations for production, perception, and consumption of heating were laid at the turn of the twentieth century.
Interview with John Dunn, author of COVID and the Importance of Political Understanding
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, John Dunn is interviewed on his recent book, COVID and the Importance of Political Understanding.
Sweet Blood: An Environmental History of Diabetes and Chronic Disease in America
This essay looks at the phenomenon of diabetes in the United States from the viewpoint of environmental history.
Pandemics in Context
What can we learn from human responses to epidemics and pandemics in history? What insights can ecological and environmental humanities perspectives provide? This new and growing collection of annotated links to open-access media (analyses, primary sources, and digital resources) helps put pandemics in context.
“Evaluating a Union between Health Care and Conservation: a Mobile Clinic Improves Park-People Relations, Yet Poaching Increases”
The authors evaluate the attitudes and perceptions of local communities living in proximity to protected areas. To demonstrate the positive effects of protected areas providing employment or services to neighboring communities, they study the provision of a mobile health clinic in Kibale National Park in Uganda.
"Making Live and Letting Die: Cancerous Bodies between Anthropocene Necropolitics and Chthulucene Kinship"
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.
"Disabilities"
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.