This blog post is an excerpt drawn from my thesis where I foreground the life and curatorship of Dr. Dorothy Newton Swales (1901-2001), the first woman to curate the McGill University Herbarium.
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
Category: EHN Blog
Life Stories of Women Leaders in Defense and Care of the Environment in Southwestern Colombia, 1990-2022
This is an invitation to get to know, learn and remember the life stories of women who care for and defend nature and their territories.
Towards an Ecocritical Art History
Ecocriticism is founded on a desire to seek out non-hierarchical modes of thinking, which makes it a close cousin to feminist, queer, Marxist, and postcolonial theories.
Seeking Justice in Transitions: On Sámi and Mapuche Struggles with Green Colonialism
As climate-related research warns us, the need for a transition towards fossil-fuel-free ways of producing energy is undeniable at this point in history.
Mobilizing the Energy Crisis for Racial Justice
[…] looking at Black discourses around the energy debates of the 1970s indicates a sense of continuity rather than change. Black activists pointed out that many people in the U.S. had never, in fact, had access to middle class lifestyles.
We Are All Seeds: Heirloom Seed Saving, Multispecies Justice, and Resisting Colonial Erasures in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Scholars of multispecies justice are increasingly turning toward plants, animals, fungi and complex other-than-human organisms as subjects of justice in our shared worlds.
The Containable Quagmire? Colonial Environmental Legacies and Continued Attempts to Control Swamps
In August 1938, nearly 12,000 majority-white New Deal laborers employed by the federal government began clearing land, relocating communities, and erecting a forty-two-mile system of dams and dikes under the direction of the South Carolina Public Service Authority.
Green Space Versus the Police State: The Future of Weelaunee People’s Park
Atlanta—a twentieth-century hub for the Black middle class, a battleground over segregation, and now … the destination for brunch?
