Uses of Environmental History: John R. McNeill
8 minutes
“As Useful as We Want to Be” Environmental or ecological historians do not “need to become more useful and practical” in anything. They sho...
Animal Rights vs. Bullfights: The Horns of an Indian Dilemma
by Rita Brara
6 minutes
Animal rights activists in India have been at the forefront of a legal campaign against jallikattu—a form of bullfighting in the province of Tami...The Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador: Pachamama Has Rights
5 minutes
Nature has recently been recognized as a subject rather than an object of rights in some Latin American countries. This is the case in Bolivia, on a l...How to Read a Bridge
by Rob Nixon
13 minutes
I grew up in South Africa, our planet’s most inequitable society, and immigrated to the USA, the rich world’s most unequal one, a country in which 400...How Local is Slow Food?
13 minutes
At the heart of the sustainable food movement are a series of dichotomies: local/global, organic/conventional, slow/fast, artisanal/industrial. These ...A Memory from the North Sea Coast
by Katie Ritson
6 minutes
Part of the RCC Perspectives issue “Beyond Doom and Gloom: An Exploration through Letters,” this is a fictional letter addressed to RCC fellow ...A Mind Divided against Itself: Thinking Holistically with a Split Brain
by Frank Zelko
11 minutes
I am an environmental historian by training, and a good slice of my research involves examining the intellectual and cultural history of environmental...The Beast of the Forest
15 minutes
“Puzzling are the ways of wild animals,” wrote James Stevenson-Hamilton. And even more puzzling, surely, are the ways of humans, especially in their e...Chernobyl Mono-Cropped
by Kate Brown
9 minutes
In 2004, I spent a week in the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation. Strangely, I found that the post-nuclear landscape had the feel of an open-air ethnograph...