Writer and anthropologist Amitav Ghosh takes us to the Banda Islands to unravel “The Nutmeg’s Curse.”
Periodicals
“The Nutmeg’s Curse”
“Organic Farming in Thailand: A Conversation with Judith Bopp”
Anthropologist and STS scholar Mascha Gugganig and cultural geographer Judith Bopp discuss “Organic Farming in Thailand” and prevailing narratives about agriculture.
“Killing a Baboon: Applied History and the Anthropocene Ape”
Processing the horrid February 2025 “Killing [of] a Baboon” by a group of schoolchildren in Delmas, South Africa, Sandra Swart looks back at history and examines the role of superstition and the occult in the ongoing violence against these primates.
“Walking a Sicilian River”
Anthropologist Paolo Gruppuso and geographer Erika Garozzo ruminate on the life of Sicily’s largest but now disappearing river—the Simeto.
“Rain, Carson, Art, Salt: A Venetian Matrix”
Novelist Catherine Bush walks the streets of Venice, seeking art that engages with Rachel Carson at the Biennale Arte 2024.
“An Environmental Escape from European Integration: Scandinavian Environmental Activism and Economic Protectionism against Disposable Bottles, 1960s to 1988”
“This article uses the disposable bottle as a lens through which to study how social actors in Scandinavia have engaged with and challenged European integration at the tension between environmental and economic interests.”
“Decolonising Climate Change: A Call for Beyond-Human Imaginaries and Knowledge Generation”
“This article calls for transdisciplinary, experimental, and decolonial imaginations of climate change and Pacific futures in an age of great planetary undoing.”
“(Un)Worlding the Plantationocene: Extraction, Extinction, Emergence”
“This article explores how tropical plantation lifeworlds are made and unmade through more-than-human forms of extraction, extinction, and emergence.”
“Spent Earth”
“Plantation”
Sophie Chao on “Plantation” in the living lexicon of the journal Environmental Humanities.