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...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...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...by Poul Holm
7 minutes
What a strange question to ask, you may think: Of course research helps change the world. Or maybe your response is: What a naive question, the world ...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...24 minutes
I grew up on Disney’s Duck Tales (1988–) comics, casually enraptured by the adventures of ducks, mice, and dogs. Later, I encountered the chilling kin...27 minutes
Katya Karabanina climbed steadily, clinging to a long, straight pine trunk, her safety ropes tight around her waist. Near the top, the nest came ...19 minutes
Responding to Lynda Walsh’s argument for looking at alternative models of knowledge production—and taking into account Jeroen Oomen’s argument in favo...18 minutes
In the year 1902 an encounter of the monstrous kind aroused the attention of the German Kaiser. The Daily Chronicle announced the sighting of a giant ...10 minutes
At the risk of revealing a lack of intellectual growth, my ideas have not changed so much as shifted since this essay came out. Four years later, the ...by Jenny Price
7 minutes
“If You Need to Use the Art” is an alt-institution public art project—or a mockstitution, to use artist Gregory Sholette’s moniker. These projects mim...by Jenny Price
42 minutes
Rachel Carson was a visionary. She’s a towering figure in the modern environmental movement. She’s widely considered to be its founding voice, and she...
