Reading Time: 7 minutesGuided 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.
Environmental History Now.
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
Queering Sanctuary and Un/Becoming with Wolf/Dogs
Reading Time: 12 minutesIf 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
Reading Time: 6 minutesIt 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
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Reading Time: 12 minutesWondering 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.
Scaling the Ivory Tower: The Neoliberalization of Academia
Living with Smoke: A Comic for the Fire Season
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Reading Time: 5 minutesPratt, Kenneth L., and Scott S. Heyes, eds. Memory and Landscape: Indigenous Responses to a Changing North. Athabasca, Alberta: Athabasca University Press, 2022.
Collective Memory and Survivance
Strange Assemblages: The Environmental Uncanny and the British Wildlife Park
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe 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
Reading Time: 4 minutesA new literary prize asks how storytelling can drive greater optimism – and action – in the face of climate change.
