From White Privilege to White Supremacy: An Illustrated Interview with Laura Pulido
Pursuing environmental justice requires recognizing the varied forms of racism.
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Humans, Streams, and the Desire to Manage
Reflections on improvement versus natural restoration in watershed management.
Chernobyl at Thirty: A Special Edition Environment and Health Roundtable
Drawing from presentations at the recent meeting of the American Society for Environmental History in Seattle, a historian, an ecologist, and a political scientist bring their different perspectives to bear on central questions of knowledge stirred by Chernobyl. What have we learned, or not?
Working Concepts: A Conversation with Sarah Besky
A conversation about labor: labor on tea plantations, the labor of language, and the ways in which the Anthropocene invites labor-focused inquiry.
The Risks of Antibiotic Overuse: A Neglected Public Priority
Though antibiotics have offered life-saving benefits, they are not without consequence. Scientists must continue to facilitate public engagement and understanding to reduce the threat of antibiotic resistance.
Bicycling Renaissance: a Bike Boom of Old (With Lessons for the New)
An interview with Dr. Evan Friss about the 1890s bicycling revolution in the United States.
Vocabularies for Technology, Nature, and the Anthropocene: A Conversation with Scott Kirsch
A conversation with geographer Scott Kirsch about what we mean when we talk about technology, and how we can understand the relationship between language and environmental and historical change.
E is for Environment
The organizers of CHE’s grad student symposium talk about defining “environment” and the possibilities for collaboration at this weekend’s event.
The Flint Water Crisis: A Special Edition Environment and Health Roundtable
The Flint water crisis sounds a call not just to address the immediate emergency, but to consider the larger legacies to which it points. We’ve assembled a roundtable of noted scholars to contemplate this history, whose understanding, they suggest, is crucial to any broader solution.
Where Land, Water, and Militants Meet: A Conversation with Nancy Langston
Dr. Nancy Langston speaks about the current conflict in Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and about hopeful collaborations for conservation.
