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 […]
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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.
Axes on the Ground: Wolves and Women on the North American Frontier
Nineteenth-century US print media is rife with interactions between white settlers and the wolves they slaughtered. Print played host to the evolutions of folkloric villains, heroes, and gender norms in ways that directly impacted national identity and settler conceptions of the so-called American frontier. North American frontiers provided an opportunity for settler women to embody gender roles different from those handed down to them in European folklore. What would we learn about these ideas by approaching the settler women with blood on their hands?
Os Danos para o Ambiente e para os Guarani no Cerrado Durante a Ditadura Militar
A ditadura militar no Brasil desempenhou um papel significativo na devastação do bioma do Cerrado e na violência contra aqueles que há muito protegem as suas terras—as comunidades indígenas que resistem há séculos.