Interview with Martin Puchner, author of Literature for a Changing Planet
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Martin Puchner is interviewed on his recent book, Literature for a Changing Planet .
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Martin Puchner is interviewed on his recent book, Literature for a Changing Planet .
A short excerpt from The Making of Modern Agriculture: Nelson Rockefeller’s American International Association (AIA) in Latin America (1946–1968), a book by Claiton Marcio da Silva published in 2023.
A book by John Dargavel on how humans experience the Anthropocene in everyday life.
A book by Catherine Whittaker, Eveline Dürr, Jonathan Alderman, and Carolin Luiprecht on watchfulness and the fight against structural inequalities in US–Mexico borderlands.
A monograph on the postwar fear of scarcity and the influence of “neo-Malthusians.”
This article reconsiders the relevance of Peter Kropotkin’s notion of mutual aid in evolution, which holds that cooperation is a more decisive factor than competition both among human and nonhuman animals.
In this article, the authors re-envision the ‘shifting baseline syndrome” in an ecological context.
This short piece by former Rachel Carson Center fellow Lisa Sideris is a contribution to the Great Transition Initiative’s forum Big History and Great Transition.
A book by Christina Gerhardt that weaves together essays, maps, art, and poetry to show us—and make us see—island nations in a warming world.
In this Springs article, history of technology professor Nina Wormbs explores how people justify acting unsustainably.