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.
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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.
Talking Trash with Josh Lepawsky
A drawn-out interview with Josh Lepawsky on the politics, flows, and research practices around electronic waste.
Leopard In A Box
What can a taxidermied leopard teach us about commemorating animals in an age of extinction?
Dwelling with Place: Lorine Niedecker’s Ecopoetics
How can poetry, particularly the “ecopoetics” of Wisconsin poet Lorine Niedecker, help us dwell with our nonhuman places?
Rewilding and Reptiles: A Conversation With Naturalist Harry Greene
World-renowned herpetologist and naturalist Harry Greene discusses humanity’s “deep history” with snakes, empathy and embodiment in animal research, Pleistocene rewilding, natural history in education, and more.
