The Lake That Became a Sports Stadium
The transformation of the Sampangi Lake into the present-day Sri Kanteerava Stadium.
The transformation of the Sampangi Lake into the present-day Sri Kanteerava Stadium.
The Virunga National Park (Democratic Republic of the Congo) is still partially influenced by imaginaries developed in the 1920s.
A case study of the effects of malaria in the Caucasus across the revolutionary divide of 1917.
In episode 48 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Sean Kheraj speaks with Merle Massie about her book Forest Prairie Edge: Place History in Saskatchewan.
In episode 57 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, three historians based outside of Canada explain their research and reasons for studying Canadian environmental history to Sean Kheraj.
Digital tools reveal a geographic logic to the violence of Pontiac’s War.
Dorothee Brantz and Avi Sharma discuss the history of green urban visions, looking at historical precedents of the modern green city.
The author attempts to reframe the classical distinction in conservation biology between native and invasive species by referring to migration and settlement of nonhuman beings as diasporas. She uses the introduction of Canadian beavers in Chilean Tierra del Fuego in 1947 as a case study.
Christine Hansen uses the concept of deep time to challenge the idea that never-before-witnessed events are unprecedented. Using the case of a massive firestorm in 2009 in southeast Australia, she calls into question the shallow temporal frames through which deep time environmental phenomena are understood in Australian settler culture and offers an insight into often unnoticed ways in which contemporary society struggles with the colonial legacy.
The article explores the opposing practices and philosophies between the Sámi people and state policymakers in northern Norway in terms of the human-environment relationship with a particular focus on language translation issues.