What is a Whale? Cetacean Value at the Bering Strait, 1848–1900
Bathsheba Demuth looks at the value of whales for indigenous peoples around the Bering Strait.
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When Environmentalists Crossed the Strait: Subsistence Whalers, Hippies, and the Soviets
Ryan Tucker Jones recounts how environmental activist organizations came into conflict with indigenous groups in the Bering Straight.
"Creating Landscapes of Coexistence: Do Conservation Interventions Promote Tolerance of Lions in Human-dominated Landscapes?"
This paper uses a comparative case study approach to explore the individual and societal desire to maintain current lion populations alongside communities in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, Tanzania’s Ruaha National Park, and Kenya’s southern Maasailand.
"Seed Care in the Palm Oil Sector"
Sophie Chao delves into an unexplored dimension of the agribusiness nexus—the affective attachments of corporate actors to oil palm seeds. Drawing from fieldwork in an oil palm concession in Riau, Sumatra, she highlights the conflicting nature of caring for palm oil seeds.
Crosscurrents episode 4: “An Interview with Historian David Wilson”
The fourth episode of the Crosscurrents podcast series focuses on professor David Wilson´s latest research on Irish organized nationalism in Canada between 1866 and 1871.
Renewable Energy and Class Struggles: Slurry and Stratification in Germany’s Energy Transition
Jennifer Carlson examines the material and social dimensions of contemporary energy transitions in the village of Dobbe in the East Frisian Peninsula.
Memory and the Origins of the Reserva Ecológica Costanera Sur in Buenos Aires
Arcadia, Spring 2019, no. 13
"Edenic Views in Wetland Conservation: Nature and Agriculture in the Fogliano Area, Italy"
Paolo Gruppuso explores the genealogy of Edenic narratives about the Pontine Marshes in Agro Pontino, Italy, and the imaginary of the Bonifica Integrale, or integral reclamation.
“The Conservation Ideological State Apparatus”
In this article for a special section on Green Wars, Jared D. Margulies considers Louis Althusser’s theory of ideological state apparatuses (ISAs) for advancing political ecology scholarship on the functioning of the state in violent environments. He uses the example of conservation as ideology in Wayanad, Kerala.
"The Persistence of Tightly Coupled Conflicts. The Case of Loisaba, Kenya"
Arjaan Pellis, Annemiek Pas, and Martijn Duineveld build upon Niklas Luhmann’s Social Systems Theory to study the multidimensional nature of resource-based conflicts in and around Loisaba conservancy in Kenya.