“It’s Only Whites Who Go There”: On Safari in Uganda
A safari trip inspires wonder at both what is found in a game park and who is not.
Category: Fieldnotes
On Edge in the “Devil’s Gardens” of Bosnia
In Bosnia, the beauty of the mountains is filtered by fear: in some places, the dangerous residues of war hide just below the Earth’s surface.
Documenting DC: Understanding a City, One Building at a Time
At what scale should we document DC’s changing built environment? What current conditions make this documentation so very essential? A reflection on the joys, difficulties, and motivations for doing fieldwork in the unfamiliar parts of one’s home city.
Speaking to Us, Speaking to the World: Elizabeth Kolbert on the Craft of Environmental Journalism
Sarah Dimick sits down with Elizabeth Kolbert to discuss writing in and about the Anthropocene.
The Anthropocene Slam: Mutiny, Play, and the Everyday
The recent Anthropocene Slam at UW-Madison suggested that play might be a key strategy for survival in the “Age of Humans.”
Reflections on Extraction 2: Whose Risks, Whose Choices?
In a second set of reflections on “Landscapes of Extraction,” CHE members explore how communities negotiate the trade-offs of mining: private gain versus public well-being, individual enterprise versus regulatory caution, and economic necessity versus environmental risk.
Reflections on Extraction 1: Mining the Invisible
Reflecting on “Landscapes of Extraction,” CHE members explore the challenges of remembering and preserving the buried histories of mining landscapes.
The Invisible War: Emmanuel Urey on Ebola in Liberia
The current Ebola epidemic has claimed close to 4000 lives in West Africa. Edge Effects interviews CHE Graduate Associate and Liberian citizen Emmanuel Urey about the crisis.
Why Edge Effects?
What’s in a name? Edge effects in the history of ecology, the geography of Wisconsin, and the interdisciplinary values of CHE.
