In this blog, Troy Sternberg, geographer and sometime White Horse Press author of both books and articles in Nomadic Peoples reports on his experiences In Gaza, filming for the current BBC4 series H20: The Molecule that Made Us. (All images courtesy of Freddie Claire). Walking into Gaza – well there is no such thing. After … More H2O in Gaza
Something a little different on the blog today – Ana Lucia Camphora’s beautiful and atmospheric video will surely entice you to read her book, Animals and Society in Brazil. There is a free excerpt here to get you started.
In today’s blog, Virgina Thomas introduces her just-published paper in Environmental Values, ‘Domesticating rewilding: interpreting rewilding in England’s green and pleasant land’ It’s well known that the word ‘rewilding’ polarises views. To some ‘the R word’ is ‘toxic’, ‘threatening’ and ‘alienating’. For others, it has a ‘pizzazz’ which has ‘caught the popular imagination’ and creates … More Rewilding – the conservation approach that dare not speak its name
Today’s blog gives a sneak preview of Global Environment 14.3 on Coastal Cities, due out next week. Guest editor Grit Martinez introduces the issue. Coastal shores and river deltas have always attracted people to congregate. Presently, an estimated forty per cent of the population worldwide live within 100 kilometres of the coast, including many cities … More Coastal Cities and Urban Deltascapes under Pressure: Quo Vadis Homo Narrans?
While we all eagerly await the delayed ESEH conference in Bristol, 4-8 July 2022, the Society has been busy bringing the environmental history community together in virtual space. Here, in a piece originally published as the ESEH Notepad in Environment and History 27.3 (August 2021) some of the organisers of these initiatives describe and reflect … More ESEH ROUND-UP OF RECENT INITIATIVES
In this blog Manannan Donoghoe reports on the Oxford Deserts Conference held in early July which sadly did not have its traditional White Horse Press attendance due to COVID. We’ll be back for the 6th! Editor Saverio Krätli represented Nomadic Peoples very effectively. This piece will also be published in NP 25.2 (September 2021). How … More HOW MANY SPINES DOES A CACTUS HAVE? REFLECTIONS ON OXFORD’S 5TH INTERDISCIPLINARY DESERT CONFERENCE (1–2 JULY 2021)
This blog is the conclusion to Chapter 2 of Tim Killeen’s serialised Open Access monograph A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness. You can read the whole chapter, and Chapter 1, via the Rachel Carson Center Environment and Society portal (PDF) or on our website (PDF or ePub) The macroeconomic hypothesis that infrastructure investments stimulate … More Sustainable Infrastructure: In Search of an Oxymoron
Presenting the video recording of our Round Table at the SOLCHA conference on 6 July 2021, featuring WHP authors Timothy Killeen and Ana Lucia Camphora and Global Environment Special Issue editor Javier Puente.
This blog piece appeared as the ESEH Notepad in the May 2021 issue of Environment and History. In the midst of so many serious socio-ecological problems, many environmental historians are keen that their work might ‘make a difference’ beyond academic discourse. For this Notepad, to stimulate further reflection and debate, we asked four ESEH members: … More Socially-engaged environmental history: An ESEH ‘notepad’
by Karen R. Jones, editor of Environment and History Since Carolyn Merchant’s famous study on science, patriarchy and ‘the Death of Nature’ (1980), scholars have successively refined the lens of gender analysis to effectively deconstruct the historical relationships between humans, environments and other species. In their introduction to a recent special issue of Environment and History (May … More From Placing Gender to the Responsibilities of Practice: ‘Doing’ and ‘Being’ in Environmental History
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