Epistemological Negotiations of “the Fly” and Native Reserves in Colonial Zambia
Arcadia, Summer 2026, no. 13
colonialism
“Gerbils Without Borders: Invasiveness, Plague, and Micro-Global Histories of Science (1932–1939)”
Drawing upon archival records in Namibia, South Africa, Portugal, the United States, and the United Kingdom, this article argues that concerns over the spread of plague across land borders led to the development of a nascent invasive species framework which indicted border-crossing “migrant” South African gerbils for the international spread of the disease.
“The Nutmeg’s Curse”
Writer and anthropologist Amitav Ghosh takes us to the Banda Islands to unravel “The Nutmeg’s Curse.”
“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.”
Other-than-Human Survivance Against the Trent-Severn Waterway
Arcadia, Spring 2025, no. 4
“The Place of the Moon”
Explore the Moon, the world, and the self in a lyrical essay with author Christopher Cokinos.
Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid
A monograph on desert dystopias and the environmental origins of apartheid.
Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land
Full text of Tamar Novick’s Milk and Honey, a environmental history of the state that centers on the intersection of technology and religion in modern Palestine/Israel.
Land Use: Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America I
Full text of the first volume of The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America.
“Inequalities in the Land: Colonial Legacies and the Quest for Land Equity in Zimbabwe”
A reflection on the use of images in environmental history.