Stefano Biagetti, co-editor with Tim Howe of the current Special Issue of Nomadic Peoples on ‘Ancient Pastoralisms’ (Nomadic Peoples 21.2) introduces the issue and reflects on the disciplinary changes it both draws upon and heralds. When I landed for the first time in my life in the central Sahara I had just obtained my first … More Variability is the key: thoughts on ancient pastoralisms
By Andrew Stuhl, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Bucknell University. Andrew’s co-authored article with Pey-Yi Chu, ‘Reorienting World Environmental History: Pedagogy and Scholarship on Cold Places’ has just been published in Environment and History 23.4, November 2017. Cold places appear to be natural subjects for environmental history. In these locations—the Arctic, Antarctica, Siberia, and mountain-top regions—nature and society … More Are Cold Places, by Nature, Exemplars of Environmental History?*
By Adam Izdebski, with contributions from Piotr Guzowski, Małgorzata Praczyk and Tomasz Samojlik. This blog was originally published as the ESEH Notepad pages in Environment and History 23.3, August 2017. Interest in environmental history in Polish academia is of relatively recent origin. At the same time, there is a very strong presence of historical geography (related … More Environmental History in Poland: Research projects, recent events and publications
A Provocation by Verena Winiwarter, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, and Response by Ruth Morgan, Monash University. We are privileged to count Verena as a longstanding Editorial Board Member for Environment and History and Global Environment; and Ruth is the newest E&H Board member. Ruth is in the early stages of projecting a workshop and Special Issue of Environment … More Gender and Environmental History – A Call to Arms
This blog entry by Petra van Dam and Piet van Cruyningen introduces an important Special Issue of Environment and History just published, edited by Petra van Dam, Piet van Cruyningen and Milja van Tielhof, and entitled ‘A global comparison of pre-modern institutions for water management’. The issue’s contents may be found here, with links to … More A global comparison of pre-modern institutions for water management
Here Ivan Šulc from the University of Zagreb introduces his Croatian-themed Poster from the recent ESEH Conference: Physical Impacts of Tourism Development in South Dalmatia, Croatia. Environment and History sponsored the Poster Prize and our last blog published the winner. The runner-up will be featured in the coming weeks, but the standard was so high … More ESEH Poster: Physical impacts of tourism development in South Dalmatia, Croatia
Well, the ESEH conference is over for another two years. It was a splendid occasion, impeccably organised by the local committee. For the first time Environment and History sponsored the Poster Prize. The winner of €100 and a whole lot of glory was Lukas Heinzmann of Bern University: congratulations, Lukas! Here, he introduces his poster, … More The Environment and History Poster Prize – ESEH Zagreb 2017
Dolly Jørgensen (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden; ESEH President) muses on the theme of this year’s ESEH conference – only two weeks to go! – and The White Horse Press’s first ever special virtual edition. The continent of Europe is filled with borders. There are 48 countries (even more if you divide the UK into … More With and without borders
By Saverio Krätli, editor of Nomadic Peoples Nomadic Peoples participated in ‘Mo(u)vement’ (2-6 May, Ottawa, Canada), the joint conference/intercongress of the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) and the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES). The ‘u’ in brackets caters for the bilingual approach of the initiative (English and French). The Commission on Nomadic Peoples … More Mo(u)vement: A Report on Pastoralism Panels at CASCA/IUAES Congress in Ottawa, 2–6 May
It is only 4 weeks until the 2017 ESEH conference in Zagreb begins. We have just launched a free-to-download special virtual edition of Environment and History to reflect the conference’s theme of ‘Natures In Between’. Here, in a piece that also appears in the virtual edition, Marco Armiero, chair of the conference’s Programme Committee, reflects on process of … More Natures In Between – First Virtual Edition of Environment and History
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