Inheritance can have far-reaching consequences that extend beyond the family unit, shaping not only society and economy but also the environment.
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Tag: environmental history
More-than-Human Remains: Reckoning with Ivory in (Post)Colonial Museums
Museums developed and funded by European colonization often grapple with the morally blurry lines between public education and neocolonial exploitation. Elephant tusk — otherwise known as ivory — is embedded in these politics of historical display.
Fearing the Subject of Study: The Climate Crisis and the Environmental Historian
The world we have constructed appears to be hurtling towards disaster, if not outright oblivion.
Smoke and Plastic: Feeling the Environmental Past
The suggestion that Barbie lives in an immaterial world was not lost on environmental icon Smokey Bear who, upon noticing her campsite, tweeted a visual critique.
A Well of One’s Own: Caste, Water, and Freedom
On a cool October morning in 2019, I visited Babu on his small plot of farmland, now a lush patchwork of vegetables that his wife sells at weekly markets in nearby towns.
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.
Desertion & The Supernatural in the Desert
Surrounded by a highly biodiverse desert ecosystem, the Rio Grande River creates a desert oasis. Yet the land around it is dry and vast, nationally contested and controlled, and scattered with ruins that span centuries and tell stories of the past.
What Goes (Un)told: The (Hi)stories of the Brazil Nut in the Biodiversity Heritage Library
In this short piece, I share my work through the example of Bertholletia excelsa, commonly known as the Brazil nut.