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In this blog Thomas Storey develops the ideas on the entanglement of technology and ecology in his recently published article in Plant Perspectives, ‘Media Ecologies and Transcendent Technology in Richard Powers’s “The Overstory”’ (December 2024). Richard Powers’s 2018 novel The Overstory is regarded as one of the central texts of contemporary ‘eco-lit’, a genre that addresses our … More The Overstory: An Ecomodernist Fable?
This blog reproduces the editorial by editors Franz Mauelshagen, Nicola Di Cosmo and Eleonora Rohland of the first volume of the peer reviewed Open Access journal Climates and Cultures in History, which was finalised in December 2024. It sets out the vision of the journal and invites new submissions (via our online system). It is … More Climates and cultures in History – Volume 1 Editorial
In this blog, Kristina van Dexter, one of the Creative Submissions editors of Plant Perspectives reflects on the ‘Peace with Nature’ theme and plant iconography of last month’s COP16 in Colombia and urges the importance of ‘moving past metaphor’. The 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity concluded … More Moving Past Metaphor: Plant Relations and Creative Resistance at COP16
In this blog, Bo Poulsen reflects on the lost culture of eel fishing, and consumption on Denmark’s Limfjord, as explored in his new co-authored article in Environment and History, ‘Seasonal Migrants and Traditional Ecological Knowledge in a Region of Risk: The Pulse Seine Fisheries in Limfjorden, Denmark, c.1740–1860‘, with Camilla Andersen (ahead of print, October … More Eel fisheries and environmental heritage in Northwest Denmark
In today’s blog, Emma Moesswilde takes her recently published article in Environment and History, Practising Cold Weather: English Agricultural Discourse and Memory, 1739–1800 (online first, September 2024) as a jumping off point to discuss memory and forgetting of extreme change, and the opportunity to become a more empathetic historian. Historians who scour the past to … More On Remembering Resilience: Climate Change, Agriculture, and Covid-19 in 1740 and 2021
This blog is the editorial to the just-published 30th anniversary issue of Environment and History. The issue contains loads free-to-read and Open Access content so do take a look. Here’s to the next 30 years! This issue marks the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of Environment and History, one of the longest established international journals in … More Environment and History’s 30th birthday!
In this blog, originally published as an ESEH Notepad in Environment and History, Chloé Vlassopoulos interviews Verena Winiwarter about the history of the European Society for Environmental History. Text edited by Roberta Biasillo, Jonatan Palmblad and Wilko Graf von Hardenberg. In 2019–2021, ESEH president Marco Armiero launched a new initiative: a history society should have … More Our Common Past: When it All Started for ESEH…
The White Horse Press was delighted to sponsor the Global Environment poster prize at the recent World Congress of Environmental History in Oulu. The winning entry by Silvia Lotman of Tallinn University was selected from the poster exhibition by judges Claudia Leal, an environmental historian of Latin America who is full professor at the Department … More WHP / Global Environment Poster Prize Winner – WCEH Oulu 2024
To mark the opening of the WCEH in Oulu, a truly global gathering of environmental historians, we are republishing José Augusto Pádua’s ICEHO essay from Global Environment (June 2024). Pádua reflects on Brazil’s momentous 2022 election – ‘a time for the historian to close the books and take to the streets’ to make a stand … More FACING ENVIRONMENTAL DENIALISM: LESSONS FROM THE BOLSONARO NIGHTMARE
In this blog, formerly published as a ‘Snapshot’ in Environment and History (May 2024), Iaroslav Golubinov explores the impact of World War One on the environment of the Eastern Front in Europe. The impact of war on the environment is undeniable. In the twentieth century, large and small conflicts have caused severe damage to nature, … More BURNED OIL RIGS AND CUT WOODS: THE ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSION OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR ON THE EASTERN FRONT
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