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.
A conversation about labor: labor on tea plantations, the labor of language, and the ways in which the Anthropocene invites labor-focused inquiry.
Recent news of restoration work at Niagara Falls provides an opportunity to reflect on how symbolic American landscapes become meaningful despite constant change.
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.
A special edition of our February 2016 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board, honoring Black History Month.
Children’s novels from the nature study movement contain strikingly violent episodes, a fact that pushes us to rethink our understanding of period environmental ethics.
With the Tales from Planet Earth film festival only days away, its organizers explore the festival theme “belief” by highlighting what audiences can anticipate.
A starting lineup of moments in the environmental history of baseball.
What can a taxidermied leopard teach us about commemorating animals in an age of extinction?
What is there to love about winter in a frigid place like Wisconsin? Lots, if you’re willing to look.
Jennifer Colten’s photographs of wasteland environments challenge some of our deepest cultural values about nature and landscape.