Our Own Memories: Women’s Experiences of Rural Electrification
This edited radio-show transcript provides personal accounts of women’s experiences in rural Ireland during the transition to electricity.
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Fear and Anxiety on the Energy Frontier: Understanding Women’s Early Encounters with Fossil Fuels in the Home
Looking to rural Canada, the author shows how women’s concerns for family safety drove energy choices and supplier campaigns.
Illuminating Women: The Case of Candles in the English Home, 1815–1900
Sayer looks at candles as an example of how less prominant energy sources and uses play key roles in energy transitions.
Gender and Agency in the Anthropocene: Energy, Women, and the Home in Twentieth-Century Britain
Taylor examines the conflicts faced by women during energy transitions as professionals in energy management and as primary managers of domestic energy use.
"Dead Museum Animals: Natural Order or Cultural Chaos?"
Libby Robin discusses animals in museums, and how taxidermy has changed from art in the service of science to the backbone of art itself, both in museums and beyond.
"Slamming the Anthropocene: Performing climate change in museums"
Libby Robin and Cameron Muir discuss representations of the Anthropocene in museums and events.
"The Global Challenge of Climate Change: Reflections from Australian and Nordic Museums"
Libby Robin compares two major museum exhibitions on climate change that rely heavily on the IPCC models: Uppdrag Klimat (Mission: Climate Earth), at the Royal Natural History Museum in Stockholm (Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet), Sweden; and EcoLogic, at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
"Weird and Wonderful: The First Objects of the National Historical Collection"
Libby Robin discusses the implication of Sir Colin MacKenzie’s initiative to collect Australian marsupials.
"‘Tigers are Our Brothers’: Understanding Human-Nature Relations in the Mishmi Hills, Northeast India"
The author explores the relationship between humans and tigers in the Sino-India border and their opposition to plans to institute a wildlife sanctuary in the region.
“Introduction: Human-nature Interactions through a Multispecies Lens”
In this introduction to a special issue on human-nature interactions through a multispecies lens, the authors focus on the notion of “multispecies assemblages” and their role in conservation theory and practice at the intersection between ecology, history, and society.