Reading Time: 5 minutesWhatever 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
Reading Time: 5 minutesA 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
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne 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
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhy 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
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt 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
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe 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
Reading Time: 5 minutesFrom 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
Reading Time: 4 minutesPedro Nisser made me rethink the way in which the technological innovation in mining happened in Antioquia.