“Somewhere That’s Green”: Little Shop of Horrors and the Man-Eating Lawns of Cairo
What a musical about a man-eating plant can tell us about Egypt’s disastrous desert development.
Green Conservatives: A Conversation with Brian Drake
Advocates of small government have a long and uncharted history within US environmentalism, argues Brian Drake in an interview about his recent book.
Edgy Stuff: June 2015 Recommendations
June 2015 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.
Tapping the Past for California’s Water Future
California’s current drought offers an occasion for rethinking how our relationship to the past can help us confront crisis.
Measuring the Anthropocene
In the Anthropocene, or “age of humans,” maps open up important but complicated spaces of dialogue about the “human imprint” on earth systems.
Nature’s Finance: Perspectives on Markets and Conservation
Markets have become increasingly popular for enacting conservation goals, but they challenge us to consider our relationship to nature in new ways.
Death, Burial, and Citizenship
Places of burial allow for public recognition of the dead, but also invoke specific forms of official memory, offering a frame for imagining citizenship.
Edgy Stuff: May 2015 Recommendations and a New Editor-At-Large
The Edge Effects editorial board introduces a new Editor-At-Large and shares our May 2015 recommendations.
Announcements: New Editors & Our Summer Schedule
In which we announce two new editors and move to a summer publication schedule.
Inheriting the Hill Station
In the former colonial hill station of Darjeeling, claims of belonging reveal the paradoxes of living in a place built for someone else.