Tag: Language
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Why Translate?
in CommentaryIn 2025, we began translating our archives into non-English languages. Here’s why.
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Plants By Any Other Name
in EssaysWhat’s in a name? Knowledge, power, and history, Jens Benöhr, Constanza López, and Kara Lena Virik argue. The scientific names of plants root botanical knowledge in colonial relationships. To decolonize ecology, we must embrace the pluriverse of knowing, naming, and living with the world.
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Translation, Rage, and What Is-Was-Willbe: A Conversation with Khairani Barokka
in PodcastsJagravi Dave speaks with Khairani Barokka on her poetry collection amuk. They use the book to connect tenselessness, the violence of colonial translation, and rage across personal, political, and environmental scales.
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New Climate Vocabulary for a Changing World
in CommentaryHow can we enrich colloquial language about climate change? Inspired by Gen Z slang, Stevie Chedid imagines a linguistic paradigm shift.
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The Swiftness of Glaciers: Language in a Time of Climate Change
in CommentaryAs the climate changes, so does our language. Melting glaciers force us to rethink the metaphors we use to make sense of the world around us.
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Expressing Extinction: A Conversation with Anna Lehner
in ExhibitsDuring this period of rapid political change, glass and Morse code provide mediums for reflection on the environment and extinction.
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Finding the Words: An Account of E is for Environment, CHE’s 2016 Graduate Student Symposium
in FieldnotesA meeting of minds at CHE’s 2016 graduate student symposium broadens the environmental vocabulary.
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Vocabularies for Technology, Nature, and the Anthropocene: A Conversation with Scott Kirsch
in PodcastsA 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.
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The Stories and Languages of Home: A Conversation with Robin W. Kimmerer
in FieldnotesDr. Robin W. Kimmerer speaks about indigenous knowledges, traditional science, and the stories and words that connect us to our nonhuman homes.