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.
Writer and anthropologist Amitav Ghosh takes us to the Banda Islands to unravel “The Nutmeg’s Curse.”
“This article calls for transdisciplinary, experimental, and decolonial imaginations of climate change and Pacific futures in an age of great planetary undoing.”
Explore the Moon, the world, and the self in a lyrical essay with author Christopher Cokinos.
A monograph on desert dystopias and the environmental origins of apartheid.
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.
Full text of the first volume of The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America.
A reflection on the use of images in environmental history.
In this video, Reinaldo Funes Monzote (Hamburg Institute for Advanced Studies) presents his project “From Slavery Plantations to Mass Tourism: A Project for a Synthesis of the Environmental History of the Greater Caribbean.”
