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.
Environmental History Now.
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
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 […]
Scaling the Ivory Tower: The Neoliberalization of Academia
Wondering about the unexpected consequences of the neoliberal turn of universities, we reflect on how to challenge the neoliberal model of academia in a way that keeps the academic door open to people of all backgrounds and fights against the commodification of knowledge.
Living with Smoke: A Comic for the Fire Season
This essay was originally published in June 2024 in NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment. Each year, British Columbia’s (BC) wildfire seasons force us to reckon with two stories about fire that are simultaneously […]
Collective Memory and Survivance
Pratt, Kenneth L., and Scott S. Heyes, eds. Memory and Landscape: Indigenous Responses to a Changing North. Athabasca, Alberta: Athabasca University Press, 2022.
Strange Assemblages: The Environmental Uncanny and the British Wildlife Park
The zoo, a space that once spoke to human domination over nature, now proves a morally loaded stage on which the biodiversity crisis slips out of our hands.
Hope and Dystopia: Learning from Climate Fiction
A new literary prize asks how storytelling can drive greater optimism – and action – in the face of climate change.
When Deeper isn’t Better: A Mining Misadventure in Early Modern Sumatra
Depth, then and now, carries powerful associations: richer deposits, economic promise, technological mastery, and often the projection of European or western expertise.