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
Today’s blog by Mica Jorgenson is associated with her just-published article in Environment and History, Wild Smoke: Managing Forest Pollution in Northern British Columbia since 1950 (online first February 2023). Co-publication with NiCHE ‘A bank of pale gray smoke pours into the bay from the north and rolls over the water, engulfing the freighters in … More Wild Smoke: Forest Fires and Air Pollution in BC since 1950
Today’s blog by Dotan Halevy relates to his article published recently in Environment and History (online first 2022): Sand and the City: On Colonial Development and its Evasive Enemies in Twentieth-Century Palestine Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac (1949) brings together two decades of thinking and writing about land, landscape, flora, fauna, and the system that ties them … More Sands, Lupines and the Ecology of the Uncultivable
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
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