Excuse Us, While We Fix the Sky: WEIRD Supermen and Climate Engineering
13 minutes
Rachel Carson once said, humanity “is challenged, as it has never been challenged before, to prove its maturity and its mastery—not of nature, but of ...The Future of the Environmental Humanities Is Not in the Seminar Room
by Rob Gioielli
10 minutes
Don’t get me wrong. I love a good seminar room discussion. Properly structured, with the right group of students or colleagues, a good text or topic t...Tell Me a Story, Tell Me the World
by Jamie Wang
12 minutes
Amid an unprecedented socioenvironmental crisis, we continue to invent new words and concepts in an effort to respond to geological transformation and...The Futures We Tell
15 minutes
Keeping up with climate news has been hard recently, and not only because it is often buried beneath the screaming headlines of seemingly more immedia...The Best Is Yet to Come: Latin American Environmental History
by Claudia Leal
19 minutes
We humans are animals, our bodies teem with microscopic life, and our societies have developed in constant interaction with a material world that we c...Ignoring Religion Is Not an Option
by Kate Rigby
12 minutes
It is high time that the environmental humanities got religion. Don’t worry. This is not a call for conversion. At least not to any one faith traditio...
The Inhuman Condition: Rethinking Anthropocentrism
30 minutes
For almost half a decade, the idea that anthropocentrism is driving the ecological crisis has gained credence among academics and nature advocates, bu...Der Bartgeier
by Jake Goetz
1 minute
Intertwining research and field notes, this poem traces the complex relationship between humans and the bone-eating Alpine bird, the bearded vulture. ...Recycling Cultures in India: Studying Electronic and Textile Waste
19 minutes
At our home in Delhi’s National Capital Region (NCR) in India, I often wake up in the morning to the calls of street vendors. Many of them are experts...
Growing Up amid Environmental Change: A Conversation with Jan David Hauck
by Jan David Hauck and Pooja Nayak
24 minutes
Jan David Hauck is an anthropologist who has been working with the Indigenous Aché communities in Paraguay since 2007 on topics including language shi...(Dis)Empowered Communities: A Conversation with Davide Orsini
by Davide Orsini and Uwe Lübken
20 minutes
Launched in March 2025, Davide’s Volkswagen Foundation Change! project seeks to foster research collaborations between academic and nonacademic partne...Puppets at the Hands of Water: Sex Workers in Mongla, Bangladesh
17 minutes
On a summer afternoon in 2022, I made the long drive from Jessore to Mongla, a port city in southern Bangladesh. My route took me through Bangladesh’s...