McKittrick explores how seemingly peripheral, outlandish ideas become part of the mainstream popular and scientific imagination.
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Wildfires Across Borders: Comparing Impacts in Los Angeles and Northern Mexico
While the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires captured global attention, northern Mexico’s devastating wildfire season received far less attention. This piece is about what such contrast reveals and discusses how wildfire disasters are not only ecological events but also stories of inequality, visibility, and power.
How to Publish an Edited Collection
This essay is my attempt to share some of what I know in the hopes that more historians will take up this useful and fulfilling work.
A Pear Tree Grew In Dorchester
The removal of the tree, its snapped branches swept up and away, made the feeling of broken lineage real.
Of Ferrets and Phantoms
This nonfiction piece was the inspiration for a journal article about writing amidst extinction for a forthcoming special issue of Cultural Geographies.
Rethinking Incomplete Metaphors for the Earth System
We often hear about the Anthropocene, but what if it’s not the only way to understand our impact on Earth? Ideas like the noosphere and technosphere offer striking new ways to see humanity’s role on Earth.
A Future with Non-Kins: The Rape of a Wallaby
In Aotearoa New Zealand, wallabies are invasive pests. In a world of “multispecies” relationship, what does it mean to be an invader? What forms of care, cruelty, and gendered violence emerge in the name of ecological protection?
This is Fine: Studying Intersectional US Environmental History While it Burns Around Us
It is really hard to focus on the work in front of you when your field is burning around you.
Sex Is a History: A Review of Performance all the Way Down by Richard O. Prum
As environmental historians, we can use this example to reaffirm the centrality of embodied humans at the centre of our narratives.