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 […]
Environmental History Now.
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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
With an emphasis on place-based memory and naming, this volume brings forward deeply rooted and complex human relationships with language and the Northern landscape.
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.
