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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
In this blog, originally published as a ‘Snapshot’ in Environment and History (May 2024), Ruby Ekkel investigates Superb lyrebird mimicry and its evolution due to environmental change and human intervention in their habitat. Here, the lyrebird is a multispecies historian, whose imitations provide mediated insights into the changing ecosystems of which it is part. On … More Mimicking Lyrebirds in Multispecies History
In this blog, Kristina Van Dexter, Creative Submissions co-editor (with Prue Gibson) of Plant Perspectives reflects on her deep engagement with the relations and languages of plant life that compose forest-worlds. Listen closely to the language of the forest – the decay and decomposition, the generative relations of fungi and roots, the rhythmic comings and … More Decolonising Plant Relations Through Creative Practice
In this blog – a recent article in Plant Perspectives – Merve Ünsal describes the genesis and meaning of her sound art installation Into the Wind, which can be experienced here. While presenting Into the Wind at a climate emergency and gender conference in Gaziantep, Turkey in November 2023, I was approached by a woman who wanted … More INTO THE WIND: WRITING WITH A FIG TREE
In today’s blog, previously published as a ‘Snapshot’ in Environment and History 30.1 (February 2024), Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska employs a hauntological approach to abandoned Pomeranian orchards in present-day north-western Poland, to explore the effects of post-1945 population migrations. This essay employs a hauntological approach to explore the effects of post-1945 mass migrations in Central Europe, particularly … More HAUNTED VEGETATION: FORMERLY GERMAN ORCHARDS IN POLISH POMERANIA
In this blog, originally published as the ICEHO pages in Global Environment 17.1 (February 2024), Admire Mseba outlines attempts to address land inequalities in postcolonial Zimbabwe, arguing that such efforts often ‘essentially ignore longstanding forms of inequality, anchored in systems of power with deep roots in the precolonial past and reinforced by colonial policies’. In … More INEQUALITIES IN THE LAND: COLONIAL LEGACIES AND THE QUEST FOR LAND EQUITY IN ZIMBABWE
We are thrilled that Prudence Gibson has joined the Plant Perspectives team as Creative Submissions Editor, jointly with Kristina van Dexter. The journal’s first issue showcased exciting creative work and we are sure that, under Prudence and Kristina’s leadership, this element will flourish even more. The journal’s submission system is here. In recent decades, artists … More Plant Perspectives – New Creative Submissions editor, Prudence Gibson
In this blog, Milica Prokić and Pavla Šimková introduce their just published edited volume Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands, which is available in both print and Open Access digital format. What role has the environment played in the history of islands? Is there even such a thing as environmental history of islands? … More Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands
In this blog, originally published as a ‘Snapshot’ in Environment and History, Rebecca Duncan, Eleonor Marcussen, Mike Classon Frangos and Emily Hanscam critically interrogate the semantics and usefulness of the concept climate ’emergency’. The sense of emergency is palpable and real. But instead of naming this moment a ‘state of exception’, we should see it … More THE EMERGENCY HAS ALREADY HAPPENED
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