The Transformative Craft of Environmental History: Perspectives on Australian Scholarship
Tom Griffiths argues for the importance of environmental history, and gives us three reasons for the uniqueness of the environmental history of Australia.
landscapes
The Good, the Bad, and the Ague: Defining Healthful Airs in Early Modern England
Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 12
The Sidoarjo Mudflow and the Muddiness of an Environmental Disaster
Arcadia, Spring 2017, no. 5
Troubling Species: Care and Belonging in a Relational World
About this issue
The categories and the types of care we assign are very often tenuous and troubled in nature. The articles in this volume explore some of the intricacy, ambiguity, and even irony in our perceptions and approaches to “multispecies” relations.
Content
The Sons of Salim Ali: Avian Care in the Western Ghats of South India
Ursula Münster shows us in her essay on silenced and silent practices of avian care in a postcolonial conservation landscape of South India, that care is never innocent, it plays out within established hierarchies and power relations, and it can reinforce long traditions of imperialism and exclusion.
The Cattle Guard
Etienne Benson considers the role that material interventions into the vernacular landscape play in solidifying our understandings of bodily difference across species.
Mulligan, Martin, "Re-enchanting Conservation Work: Reflections on the Australian Experience"
Martin Mulligan explores the Australian conservation movement, arguing that future conservation strategies need to tackle “frontier mentality” and a heavy reliance on scientific rationale. He suggests learning from the Australian Aborigines and non-rational approaches to nature conservation.
Helm, Carsten and Udo. E. Simonis, "Distributive Justice in International Environmental Policy: Axiomatic Foundation and Exemplary Formulation"
Carsten Helm and Udo Simonis develop a proposal for distributing common resources with regard to international climate policy, based on widely accepted equity criteria.
Driving Germany: The Landscape of the German Autobahn, 1930-1970
Driving Germany is an in-depth exploration of the relationship between environmental and trafiic history in Germany, set against the political and ideological background of National Socialism.
Chemical Rubble: Historicizing Toxic Waste in a Former Mining Town in Northern Chile
Arcadia, Autumn 2016, no. 20