Of Ghost Nets and the Haunting at Nissum Bredning
Arcadia, Spring 2022, no. 3
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About the Exhibition
About the virtual exhibition Oceans in Three Paradoxes: Knowing the blue through the Humanities.
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Yangzi Waters: Transforming the Water Regime of the Jianghan Plain in Late Imperial China
Excerpts from the book Yangzi Waters: Transforming the Water Regime of the Jianghan Plain in Late Imperial China by former RCC fellow Yan Gao.
Interview with David Moon, Nicholas Breyfogle, and Alexandra Bekasova, authors of Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, David Moon, Nicholas Breyfogle, and Alexandra Bekasova are interviewed on their book, Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History
Interview with Nancy Langston, author of Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Nancy Langston is interviewed on her book, Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene.
Interview with David B Williams, author of A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, David B Williams is interviewed on his recent book, A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound.
Metamorphosis of a Waterway: The City of Nijmegen Embraces the River Waal
Arcadia, Autumn 2021, no. 29
“Anxieties of Access: Remembering as a Lake”
This article explores the nature of remembering as a lake, with a lake, or through a lake; the differential relationships, knowledge, and perspectives contained within; and the potentially troubling implications found at the intersection of scientific and humanistic perspectives on lake being.
Subterranean (In)visibilities: Traces, Underground Water, and Thermal Flows in the El Tatio Geyser Field, Atacama, Chile
From Rains to Floods: A Case of Chennai in 2015
Arcadia, Summer 2021, no. 23
About the Exhibition
Oceans in Three Paradoxes: Knowing the Blue through the Humanities
What can the humanities reveal about people’s interconnections with the ocean, past and present? In 1975, the maritime historian Benjamin Labaree offered an influential argument that the Atlantic acted simultaneously as bridge and moat for European settlers of North America. The paradox of these overlapping functions provided a touchstone for understanding the maritime realm, but it is time to recognize the ocean as more than the flat surface implied by it. Two further pairings, repository–mirror and destination–home, testify to the duration of the human connections with the sea, including its depths, and also to the distinct ocean relationships forged by different cultures. The blue humanities provide a mooring for considering not only the ocean’s past and present but its future as well.
Helen M. RozwadowskiAbout the author
