Reading Time: 5 minutesThe historical, and continued, intertwining of white supremacy, colonization, and Christianity has created an interconnected web of oppression and domination.
Environmental History Now.
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
Invisible Disaster?: Writing Air Pollution into the Disaster Pantheon
Reading Time: 4 minutesOriginally inspired by my dissertation research on the historical development of Mexico City’s persistent air pollution problem, this reflection recentely took on a renewed sense of urgency.
Noxious Natures: The Commercialization of Natural Resources and Environmental Racism against the Six Nations People
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Reading Time: 4 minutesIf you are a person who will spend a great deal of your professional life writing, you too are likely to become afflicted by Writer’s Block at some point.
The Perils of a Writer’s Profession: Overcoming Writer’s Block
The Autistic Process: Research through the Overwhelming
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhatever its explanatory powers, or lack thereof, describing the autistic umwelt or life-world as intense carries an important truth about the advantages and disadvantages of working in academia with autism.
Untethered: Precarity, Place, and People
Reading Time: 6 minutesAs Andrea Eidinger’s reflections on ActiveHistory.ca fit so well with our #problemsofplace series, we came together to also make it into a post for EHN.
“Probably New to Science”: Locating Indigenous Knowledge in Colonial Archives
Reading Time: 5 minutesA few weeks ago, to acquaint students with primary sources and the process of reading archival materials “against the grain,” I brought to class a few sample sources from my own research. Sometimes just a few letters can offer revealing lenses into the past.