Content Index

In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, John Soluri and Claudia Leal are interviewed on their edited volume, A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America.

In this article, former Rachel Carson Center fellow Helen Rozwadowski argues that the humanities can and should contribute to ocean studies.

Full text of Claire Lagier’s dissertation, “Constructing Legitimacy? Agroecology within and beyond the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST).”

The Riwo Sangchö is a Buddhist purification ritual that has become popular in response to the Coronavirus in Sikkim, India.

Excerpt from Bénédicte Boisseron’s book Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question.

Full text of Peter Niedersteiner’s dissertation, “Zwischen Staunen und Zweifeln.”

A brief narration about typhoid disease in the postwar Balkan city Philippopolis.

In this article, Antoine Acker provides a different perspective on the Anthropocene.

This article looks at extreme droughts in Istanbul to understand the nineteenth-century changes in the Ottoman State.