“Mother Drone, Mother Nature: The Griffon Vulture and Israel’s Military”
This essay examines how military, technology, and nature converge in the Israeli griffon vulture project and what politics stand behind it.
animals
“Apartheid’s Baboons: How the State Weaponised Animal Bodies”
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Sandra Swart.
Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land
Full text of Tamar Novick’s Milk and Honey, a environmental history of the state that centers on the intersection of technology and religion in modern Palestine/Israel.
“‘Bats Who Harm’ and ‘Bats Who May Be Harmed’: The Interspecies Politics of Virus Sampling”
This manuscript adopts an interspecies perspective on the One Health laboratory and argues that scientific care for sampled bats may cement hierarchies, with consequences for samplers and animals.
“Researching the Ebola Reservoir with the Heuristic of the Fetish in Guinea”
Through exploring virology research and its dangers in post-Ebola Guinea, this article argues that the hypothesis of a bat reservoir has taken on a heuristic role that can be compared to the way that a fetish polarizes relations between the people who manipulate and fear this idea.
Interview with Thom van Dooren, author of The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, former RCC visiting scholar Thom van Dooren interviewed on his recent book, The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds.
Defending the Arctic Refuge (website)
This website is a public history project and a companion to the book Defending the Arctic Refuge by Finis Dunaway.
One Century of Reindeer on South Georgia: From Introduction to Eradication
Arcadia, Spring 2024, no. 1
“Is This a Society of Humans or of Dogs?”: The Issue of Roaming Dogs in Nineteenth-Century Athens
Arcadia, Autumn 2023, no. 24
“Animal Rights with Will Kymlicka”
In this episode of The Animal Turn, Claudia Hirtenfelder talks animal rights with philosopher Will Kymlicka.