Recommendations

Faculty Favorites: Environmental Books to Read and Teach in 2020

Faculty Favorites: Environmental Books to Read and Teach in 2020

Faculty recommend environmental books to read and teach, from a study of concrete in Buenos Aires to a memoir of Indigenous climate activism in Québec …
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2019 Year in Review

Editors recommend compelling essays, podcast episodes, and art exhibits about environmental issues published by Edge Effects in 2019 …
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Faculty Favorites: Must-Read Books in Environmental Science and Technology Studies

Faculty working in the US, UK, Canada, and Europe recommend new and classic readings in environmental science and technology studies (STS) …
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Eight Online Environmental Archives to Bookmark

These digital environmental archives offer a range of approaches to environmental histories, cultural practices, and ecological changes …
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Recommended Readings for a Radical Life

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, and other activists and educators recommend books that challenge the divisions of life drawn by settler colonialism, racial slavery, and the natural sciences …
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Faculty Favorites: Books for the Struggles to Come

Past is ominously prologue in these spring syllabus highlights from Gabrielle Hecht, Paul Sutter, and five other environmental scholars …
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2018 Year in Review

As 2018 draws to a close, our editors reflect on a year of climate crisis and environmental exploitation and consider the urgency of environmental art, activism, and scholarship …
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Weathering This World with Comics

Comics and graphic novels help us picture new worlds and imagine how to save our own. Four writers recommend their favorites …
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Faculty Favorites: Books That Will Change the Way You Look at the Land

Mark Fiege, Lauret Savoy, and six other environmental scholars share the reading on their syllabus that they are most excited to teach this fall …
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Watching That? Read This!

Many new movies and TV shows have complex things to say about the entanglement of culture, history, and environment. We recommend the best scholarship to help you decode them …
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Nine Women Who Are Rewriting the Environment

As we continue to celebrate Women’s History Month, here is a list of new and recent work by women writers whose environmental imaginations keep us all inspired, impassioned, and ready for whatever comes next …
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Faculty Favorites: Books to Add to Your Shelf This Spring

Five professors recommend an eclectic set of environmentally focused books about animals, shopping malls, feral children, and more …
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