Whatever its explanatory powers, or lack thereof, describing the autistic umwelt or life-world as intense carries an important truth about the advantages and disadvantages of working in academia with autism.
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
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“Probably New to Science”: Locating Indigenous Knowledge in Colonial Archives
A few weeks ago, to acquaint students with primary sources and the process of reading archival materials “against the grain,” I brought to class a few sample sources from my own research. Sometimes just a few letters can offer revealing lenses into the past.
Intersections between Environmental Justice and Site-Specific Performance
One of the fascinating things about site-specific performance in its broadest sense is that it helps us to think inclusively about bodies and the environments in which they are embedded.
Connecting Audiences to Environmental History: The General Survey Course
Why is environmental history not more “mainstream”? What are your ideas for incorporating the environment and environmental history into survey courses?
The Unanswered Call for Transnational Mining History
It will be news to no one that state-based explanations for the past just don’t fire the historical imagination like they used to and that environmental historians have been at the forefront of a transnational shift.
Archived in the Asphalt: An Abridged History of LA, Pleistocene to Present
The La Brea Tar Pits have yielded the most extensive record of a Pleistocene environment on the planet. Yet the pits are also a misnomer, for they are an artifact of nineteenth-century asphalt mining and twentieth-century fossil excavations.
The Life of Air: A Meditation on Studying the Unseen
From the south-facing window of my third floor apartment, I sometimes see the sunrise.
Taming the Rivers: Science on the Making in the Alluvial Gold Mines in Nineteenth-Century Antioquia, Colombia
Pedro Nisser made me rethink the way in which the technological innovation in mining happened in Antioquia.