On 28 February 2023, The White Horse Press will publish John Dargavel’s Anthropocene Days, a collection of interlinked essays by one of Australia’s first environmental historians. The strikingly illustrated volume serves as a fragmentary memoir of the author’s 90 years on this Earth and focuses on how environment is experienced in the everyday. While the … More Dust and Dusting: A Taster of John Dargavel’s Anthropocene Days

This blog by Roger Norum originally appeared as the ICEHO pages in Global Environment 15.3 (October 2022). We are reposting today because Roger is the chair of the local organising committee for the 4th World Congress of Environmental History to be held in Oulu on 19-23 August 2024, whose CFP has just been launched! ‘Maps … More NAVIGATING TRANSFORMATIONS AND TRANSDISCIPLINARITY IN NORTHERN FINLAND

The timely new journal, Plant Perspectives, published by The White Horse Press, reflects the steady ascent of interdisciplinary plant studies especially over the last decade. Increasingly, the botanical world presents an enthralling area of research, writing, reflection and collaboration. Many scientific studies reveal that human beings and other creatures have more in common with plants than … More Plant Perspectives – A Note from the Editor, John C. Ryan

Excuse our blatant self-pollination in announcing our exciting new journal here! Opening for submissions in 2023, Plant Perspectives, edited by John C. Ryan with Deputy Editor Isis Brook will be an Open Access interdisciplinary forum for all things planty and peopley. Its shiny new website is here and the scope is copied below, with some … More Plant Perspectives: A New Open Access Journal Coming Soon

In this blog, originally published as a ‘Snapshot’ in Environment and History (28.3, August 2022), Sandy Hunter asks how to ‘understand the precipitous decline of the Northern cod as both metonym for contemporary crisis and an ecological tragedy with deep historical roots?’ …the number of which [the codfish] seems to equal that of the grains … More COD, COLONIALISM, AND THE ANTHROPOCENE

In this blog, Maurice Paulissen, Edward H. Huijbens and Roy van Beek introduce their forthcoming Open Access article in Environment and History, which will be published online-first next month. In the article, the theory of affordances is intriguingly applied to medieval and modern bog landscapes. Imagine someone who has never seen a coffee mug before … More THE WORKINGS OF NATURE’S MATERIALITY AS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF AFFORDANCES: THE EXAMPLE OF HISTORICAL BOG LANDSCAPES

In today’s blog, originally a ‘Snapshot’ in Environment and History 28.3 (August 2022), Tanja Riekkinen investigates petroculture as a ‘socio-technical imaginary’, proposing that ‘exploring the history of sociotechnical imaginaries related to energy’ – specifically positive advertisements for oil’s place in a bright future – ‘may provide novel perspectives for understanding current envisionings and practices of … More ENVISAGING ENERGY FUTURES: PAST AND PRESENT

In this blog, Matt Harvey offers a taster of his recently published article in Environmental Values (online first, August 2022), The Sublime and the Pale Blue Dot: Reclaiming the Cosmos for Earthly Nature, advocating ‘engagement with the sublime Cosmos, as an earth-centred aesthetic experience that reminds us of and finds joy in our inalienable attachments … More The Sublime and the Pale Blue Dot

In this blog, which first appeared as ‘Notes from the ICEHouse’, the ICEHO pages, in Global Environment 15.2 (June 2022), Claire Campbell of Bucknell University considers how we can ‘acknowledge the enormous gravity of the climate crisis that our children have been born to, but not define their lives by it’. My son wants to … More TIGERS, THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS AND UNCERTAINTY.

In today’s blog, Atte Arffman introduces a new article in Environment and History (online first, August 2022), co-written by him and Antero Holmila, entitled  ‘Race, Environment, and Crisis: Hurricane Camille and the Politics of Southern Segregation’ and proffering an ‘unusual angle’ on hurricane studies. Atte realised today the coincidence that Camille made its landfall on … More Hiding in plain sight – environment in history