In the last few weeks, two grand juries declined to indict the police officers who killed Michael Brown and Eric Garner. What can scholars in the environmental humanities and social sciences say about racialized state violence?
Can playing video games encourage gamers to think differently about their relationships to the non-human world? A close study of Final Fantasy XII shows how video games represent nature—and argues for ways they could be improved from an environmentalist standpoint.
Five members of the CHE community discuss the surprisingly complex idea of simplicity in the context of environmentalism.
November recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.
GAS, or “Gear Acquisition Syndrome,” affects even environmentalists. Is it a noble disease or a base symptom of consumerism?
What are the connections between food, place, and belonging? An attempt to make New York-style cheesecake in France suggests some answers.
Two new books in history and geography remind scholars to think on the large scale—both in time and space.
Sarah Dimick sits down with Elizabeth Kolbert to discuss writing in and about the Anthropocene.
The recent Anthropocene Slam at UW-Madison suggested that play might be a key strategy for survival in the “Age of Humans.”
Seven projects that help us to better sense—visualize, hear, count—ecological and social transformations in the “Age of Humans.”
