Environment, Power, and Justice: Southern African Histories

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Green Voices: Defending Nature and the Environment in American Civic Discourse

Full text of the book Green Voices: Defending Nature and the Environment in American Civic Discourse.

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

by Minjung Noh and Shinyoung Kim

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Arcadia, Summer 2022, no. 11

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

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Interview with Nadia Y. Kim, author of Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA

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Of Ghost Nets and the Haunting at Nissum Bredning

by Sebastian Lundsteen

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Arcadia, Spring 2022, no. 3

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ClimateCultures: Creative Conversations for the Anthropocene

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Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice

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This exhibition was created by Helen M. Rozwadowski in 2020 under a CC BY 4.0 International license. This refers only to the text and does not include image rights.

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Oceans in Three Paradoxes: Knowing the Blue through the Humanities

What can the humanities reveal about people’s interconnections with the ocean, past and present? In 1975, the maritime historian Benjamin Labaree offered an influential argument that the Atlantic acted simultaneously as bridge and moat for European settlers of North America. The paradox of these overlapping functions provided a touchstone for understanding the maritime realm, but it is time to recognize the ocean as more than the flat surface implied by it. Two further pairings, repository–mirror and destination–home, testify to the duration of the human connections with the sea, including its depths, and also to the distinct ocean relationships forged by different cultures. The blue humanities provide a mooring for considering not only the ocean’s past and present but its future as well.

Helen M. Rozwadowski

About the author

Rozwadowski, Helen M.

University of Connecticut, USA

Helen M. Rozwadowski is a professor of history and founder of the University of Connecticut’s Maritime Studies program. Her award-winning book, Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea, chronicles the nineteenth-century scientific and cultural discovery of the depths. Her recent book, Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans (Reaktion Books, 2018), which won the Sharon Harris Book Award from UCHI in 2019, came out in a Korean edition in 2019 and a Chinese edition in 2020. She is co-editor of the new University of Chicago Oceans in Depth book series.