Content Index

American Politics and the Environment

Full text of the second edition of American Politics and the Environment.

“Pentagon Interest in Global Warming... when? Military Fascination with the Physical Environmental Sciences in the Early Cold War”

Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Ron Doel.

“Dismantling the Machine: Modern Technology as Magic”

Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Alf Hornborg.

Hostage to Nuclear Power Plants: Weekly Funeral Procession Protest at the Wolsong Nuclear Power Plants, Gyeongju, South Korea

The residents near Wolsong Nuclear Power Plants at Gyeongju, South Korea, protest to claim their rights to live with dignity.

“Exploring the Diversity of Conceptualizations of Nature in East and South-East Asia”

This article sheds light on the diversity of meanings and connotations that tend to be lost or hidden in translations between different conceptualizations of nature in East and South-East Asia.

“Mediating Climate, Mediating Scale”

This article examines how a scalar divide has been negotiated visually, focusing in particular on Ed Hawkins’ 2016 viral climate spiral.

“Low-Carbon Research: Building a Greener and More Inclusive Academy”

This essay examines how the fossil fuel energy regimes that support contemporary academic norms in turn shape and constrain knowledge production.

Interview with Alice Crary and Lori Gruen, authors of Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory

In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Alice Crary and Lori Gruen are interviewed on their recent book, Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory.

“Anthropocentrism as the Scapegoat of the Environmental Crisis: A Review”

This article challenges the common view on anthropocentrism.

“The ‘Normative Forces’ of Difference: Ecology, Economy and Society during Cattle Plagues in the Eighteenth Century”

Dominik Hünniger writes about the cattle plagues in the eighteenth century.

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