Historian Robert Gioielli, Carson fellow from September 2010 to June 2011, speaks about his research project, “Hard Asphalt and Heavy Metals: An Environmental History of the Urban Crisis.”
In the special section “Provocations,” ten authors map the common ground between ecocriticism and environmental history, with the goal of enabling close interdisciplinary cooperation.
This film focuses on an elderly woman determined to remain in her beloved village, even as demolition begins to make room for urban expansion.
A farmer on the !Garib/Orange river in Namibia uses historical flood markers to challenge eviction in the post-apartheid landscape.
Potrayal of the devastation caused by a massive flood along stretches of the Danube, Neckar, Main, and Rhein in January 1651.
The tragic story of the Paradise Parrot is haunted by both the spectre and the reality of extinction.
This article examines the environmental implications of Dutch nineteenth-century attempts to establish a telegraph connection across the Sunda Strait.
Nijmegen’s “Room for the Waal” project is a leading example for the application of the “making room for the river” water management approach.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Kate Rigby is interviewed on her book, Reclaiming Romanticism: Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonisation.
Excerpt from Kate Rigby’s 2020 book Reclaiming Romanticism.
