Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
A biography of American scientist and popular ecology writer, Rachel Carson.
A biography of American scientist and popular ecology writer, Rachel Carson.
Examines the cultural history of English explorations of Earth’s polar regions.
Intended to address the alarming rate of deforestation worldwide, this series documents the efforts of indigenous peoples across the globe to find alternatives to exploitative and destructive forest practices.
Debojyoti Das’s review of an environmental history reader containing essays by Karl Jacoby, Alok Kumar Ghosh, Arun Bandopadhyay, Archana Prasad, Vinita Damodaran, Ritajyoti Bandhopadhyay, Kaushik Roy, Arabinda Samanta, Amal Das, Sahara Ahmed, Jagdish N. Sinha, Sumit Guha, Rita Pemberton, Lawrence G. Gundersen, and Tridib Chakraborty.
A nuanced treatment of the relation between peasant protests and environment with reference to a broad range of examples from Mediterranean Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa.
The film documents Sandra Steingraber’s travels across North America, during which the ecologist and writer works toward breaking the silence over cancer and its environmental links.
An examination of the relationship between African Americans and the environment in US history.
Filomina Chioma Steady links shelter, women, and the environment in order to understand this important dimension of the crisis in human settlements, particularly in the provision of human shelters.
In this article, Mercè Agüera-Cabo presents the case of grassroots organizations in North Catalonia in the context of gender, values, and power in local environmental conflicts.
Our notions of water are closely linked to the female body and to discourses of objectification and control. It is this critical interlacing of ideas about gender, purity, and power that makes water intensely political.