Creating Safety, Courting Disaster on the Lower Shinano River, Japan
Engineering the Lower Shinano River in northeastern Japan expanded the risk of other flood and tsunami damage.
Engineering the Lower Shinano River in northeastern Japan expanded the risk of other flood and tsunami damage.
The essays in this collection explore how masculine roles, identities, and practices shape human relationships with the more-than-human world.
Kambe analyzes the masculinist rhetoric of Japanese male writers and intellectuals’ reactions to the 2011 earthquake.
Jim Fleming gives an overview of the male-dominated state of climate engineering proposals and criticizes the current masculinist nature of climate intervention.
Susanne Leikam explores the extreme weather hero and performed masculinity in contemporary American pop culture through an analysis of the 2013 film Sharknado.
Erik Loomis discusses the production of working-class masculinity in the US Pacific Northwest, highlighting environmental history’s need to reinstate working people in its studies.
An excerpt from Alex Carr Johnson’s manuscript “Every Day Like Today: Learning How to Be a Man in Love.”
Kathryn M. de Luna explores the gendered micropolitics of knowledge production through a case study of Botatwe-speaking societies (ca. 750–1250) in south central Africa.
Through a reading of two Victorian travel memoirs, Will Abberley demonstrates the contradictions in Victorian attitudes towards masculinity, nature, and emotions.
Noémi Gonda explores how the masculine figure of the cattle rancher plays a part in local explorations of climate change adaptation in Nicaragua.