Book review of Richard O. Prum’s book Performance all the Way Down, published by University of Chicago Press in 2023.
Environmental History Now.
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
Fieldwork In-between: Walking and Cutting Grass in Japan’s Post-Mining Landscape
Walking through Ashio’s scarred mountains (Japan) and cutting grass along the Watarase River, fieldwork turns out to be less about gathering data and more about learning to sense how toxicity and care coexist.
Counting What counts: Preserving environmental activism history
When the flyers, posters, and participants are lost or forgotten, so too is our understanding about how our shared environmental history has been shaped by activism.
The Impact Assessment as Archive: Historical Approaches to Regulatory Documents from Alberta’s Oil Sands
Canada’s recent embrace of Indigenous rights looks transformative on paper, but in the Alberta oil sands, a different story unfolds.
Tidings for the New Year
Some news from the EHN team as we approach the New Year.
On Snow Globes
Snow globes bear witness to their times and are the perfect curio for the Anthropocene. What would our snow globe of the Anthropocene be made of?
Primordial Waters: Being and Doing the Urban Indigenous
Guided by an ancestral call to recover the Primordial Water in Cape Town, this essay reflects on how human–nature connections continue to adapt, resist, and reimagine themselves in contemporary South Africa.
Queering Sanctuary and Un/Becoming with Wolf/Dogs
If there is anything to be salvaged from the fraught concept of “wildness,” it is in the wily tenacity and audacious hopefulness of these queer taxonomic renegades.
Pre-Flight Safety Briefing: Researching the Environment in the U.S. without Being Detained at the Border
It is a turbulent time to be an international scholar in the United States: So before you embark on your next trip to the U.S., let’s make sure you are ready for take-off.
EHN’s 7th anniversary retrospective
A Note from the Editors: To wrap up this year’s anniversary week, the executive editorial team decided to create a retrospective featuring some of our favorite essays, two from this past year and two from […]