A More-than-Human Viewpoint on the History of a “Peruvian” Disease
Arcadia, Autumn 2023, no. 20
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Responding to the Anthropocene: Perspectives from Twelve Academic Disciplines
In this book, scholars and scientists from twelve disciplines write about the Anthropocene.
“Earth Beyond Six of Nine Planetary Boundaries”
A 2023 update on the planetary boundaries framework.
Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Western Literature, Philosophy and Art: Towards Theory and Practice
Full open-access book on symbiotic posthumanist ecologies.
Different Ways of Thinking Globally: The Unlikely Return of the Noosphere in Russian Environmental Discourses
Drimys winteri: Circulation of Environmental Ignorance in European Written Sources (1578–1776)
Arcadia, Summer 2023, no. 15
“Cities by the Sea: A Tale of Qingdao and Los Angeles”
In this Springs article, environmental historian Shen Hou considers the shore lives of both Qingdao and Los Angeles.
“Ecological Civilization”
In this Springs article, environmental historian Donald Worster delves into the material events behind cultural imaginaries in China, while asking for an ecological civilization. “Can humans learn, by subordinating their appetites to their brains, how to live on this earth intelligently and ethically?”
A Mist Connection: An Environmental History of the Laki Eruption of 1783 and Its Legacy
The full book by RCC alumna Katrin Kleemann.
“Organisms, Life Relations, and Evolution: Inter-Dependencies after Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid”
This article reconsiders the relevance of Peter Kropotkin’s notion of mutual aid in evolution, which holds that cooperation is a more decisive factor than competition both among human and nonhuman animals.