"Beasts Versus the Biosphere?"
Mary Midgley explores if there is a necessary clash between concern for animals and concern for the environment as a whole.
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Human-Animal Conflicts in Kerala: Elephants and Ecological Modernity on the Agrarian Frontier in South India
This article argues that in contemporary Wayanad in Kerala, southern India, human-animal relations are embedded in a history of ecological modernity composed of three modes of encounter between agrarian change (capitalist settler agriculture) and forest conservation (state-led and globalizing). It suggests that the notions of “frontier,” “fortress,” and (precarious) “conviviality” best capture the historical and emerging environmental relations in this environment of crisis.
The Last Yoik in Saami Forests?
The Last Yoik in Saami Forests? chronicles the logging damage that has taken place in the forests of Finnish Lapland over the past 50 years.
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Beautiful Islands
Director Tomoko Kana compares three islands in different geographies and their adaptation to the impact of climate change through a portrayalof the inhabitants’ daily lives.
Nature Conservation in Ski Country? The Vanoise National Park
Arcadia, 2014, no. 2
How Birds Became Europeans: Bird Protection Activists Cooperating across Borders for Supranational Protection
Cosmopolitan Trout: The 1883 Fisheries Exhibition and the Global Expansion of Fish Culture
Northern Bison Sanctuary or Big Ranch? Wood Buffalo National Park
Arcadia, 2013, no. 19
Broadsheet: “Presenting Wild Animals: Two Sea Lions, a White Whale-bear and a Long-tailed Monkey,” June 1754
The graphic reproduction shows the icebear hunt in Greenland, several sailing ships and boats from that time, the long-tailed monkey mentioned in the title, and even a whale in the background.