This blog reproduces the concluding commentary written by Maryam Niamir-Fuller, Co-Chair of the International Support Group for the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists 2026, to the recent Special Issue of Nomadic Peoples entitled ‘Sedentist Biases in Law, Policy and Practic’, edited by Greta Semplici and Cory Rodgers. The whole issue (and all 2023 content) … More SEDENTIST BIASES IN LAW, POLICY AND PRACTICE: CONCLUDING COMMENTARY

This edited volume by Viktor Pál, Tuomas Räsänen and Mikko Saikku is now available online and Open Access. It will be published in print on 15 October – and can be purchased from our online bookstore. The editors’ introduction to the volume is reproduced here to give readers a flavour of this ground-breaking collection. Finland … More Green Development or Greenwashing: Environmental Histories of Finland

At the ESEH Conference in Bern last month, The White Horse Press maintained our tradition of awarding the Poster Prize. A judging committee comprising Sarah Johnson (of WHP), Marianna Dudley (ESEH Vice-President), Sebastian Depretto (University of Bern) and Anastasia Fedotova (ESEH regional representative for Russia) examined a dozen posters and second place was awarded to the beautiful … More White Horse Press / ESEH Poster Prize: Second Prize Winner

At the ESEH Conference in Bern this month, The White Horse Press was delighted, as ever, to award the Poster Prize. A judging committee comprising Sarah Johnson (of WHP), Marianna Dudley (ESEH Vice-President), Sebastian Depretto (University of Bern) and Anastasia Fedotova (ESEH regional representative for Russia) examined a dozen posters and concluded that Bob Pierik … More ESEH / White Horse Press Poster Prize 2023: First Prize Winner

In today’s blog, John C. Ryan, editor of Plant Perspectives, ruminates on the power, intelligence and empathy of plants – and invites submissions to The White Horse Press’s new interdisciplinary plant humanities journal. The exciting identification of Asia’s tallest tree, a 102-metre cypress in Tibet’s Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, calls attention to how we monumentalise … More On the Intelligent Presence of Plants: The ‘Bright Thought Submerged’

In today’s blog, Isis Brook, Deputy Editor of Plant Perspectives, reports on a very special plant humanities conference held in Palermo in May. Plant Perspectives is now open for submissions – this is your invitation to pass through the ‘portal to the plant realm’! How wonderful to have a conference and summer school on philosophy … More Vegetal Turn Conference: Palermo, May 2023 

In today’s blog, Biswajit Sarmah introduces his recently published article in Environment and History (Fast-track April 2023) Empire, Nature and Agrarian World: A History of Rhino Preservation in the Kaziranga Game Reserve, India (1902–1938)  The return of the greater one-horned rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis) is considered one of the most successful conservation stories. Historically, the rhino … More Empire, Nature and Agrarian World: A History of Rhino Preservation in Kaziranga Game Reserve, India (1902–1938)

Ruth Morgan has kindly allowed use to publish her introduction to John Dargavel’s Anthropocene Days from a launch event held at the ANU in Canberra on 18 April 2023. Thank you – it’s a real honour to have the opportunity to speak about John’s book and his work. I’d like to pay my respects to … More Address by Ruth Morgan at the Launch of John Dargavel’s Anthropocene Days

In this blog, Anna Guasco introduces her newly published article in Environment and History, (Online-first March 2023) From Devil-Fish to Friendly Whale? Encountering Gray Whales on The California Coast This research started, as many whale stories do, with a ‘thar she blows!’ This work was born of salt water and sea spray, of stories told while … More Tracking Devil-Fishes and Friendly Whales

In this blog, John Cropper introduces his new article in Environment and History, ‘Growing a World Wonder’: The Great Green Wall and the History of Environmental Decline in the Sahel, 1450–2022 (online first March 2023), which argues that the Great Green Wall Initiative gave new life to the ‘declinist’ narrative of the African environment and … More ‘Growing a World Wonder’: Problematising the Great Green Wall