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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
EHN’s 7th anniversary retrospective
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.
When Deeper isn’t Better: A Mining Misadventure in Early Modern Sumatra
Reading Time: 7 minutesDepth, then and now, carries powerful associations: richer deposits, economic promise, technological mastery, and often the projection of European or western expertise.
