Living With Plastic and Toxicity, Queerly
Svenja Engelmann-Kewitz reviews Heather Davis’s book Plastic Matter, which theorizes the queer potentials and complex legacies of plastic.
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Faculty Favorites: What to Read (and Watch) on Race & Place
Edge Effects invited scholars from a range of fields to share with us environmental books and texts on the topic of “Race and Place” that they are most excited to teach in the new academic year.
A Call For Humanities at the Seabed
Inspired by recent debates about deep sea mining, Killian Quigley, Charne Lavery, Laurence Publicover discuss the urgency of what they call a “critical seabed studies.”
Who Breathes in the Andes?
Climatotherapy was a popular treatment for respiratory disease in 20th century Peru, but José Ignacio Mogrovejo shows how its history reveals structural inequalities in the country’s healthcare system.
The Ocean’s Beating Hearts
Hilary Clark reflects on how whale watching in Monterey helps reveal important marine multispecies connections—some more unexpected than others.
Hindustan Zinc and Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility
In 2021 and 2022, Prerna Rana spoke with people in Udaipur, India whose livelihoods have been impacted negatively by both environmental pollution and the corporate social responsibility programs meant to mitigate that harm.
New Climate Vocabulary for a Changing World
How can we enrich colloquial language about climate change? Inspired by Gen Z slang, Stevie Chedid imagines a linguistic paradigm shift.
Saving the Forest to Secure the Mine in Jamaica’s Cockpit Country
Marie Widengård looks to critical border studies to understand how both extraction and conservation are at work in a contested area of Jamaica.
Gender and Glacial Agency in The Ice Sings Back
Maria Tane reviews feminist geographer and glaciologist M Jackson’s debut novel, which reveals a profound connection between melting ice and missing women.
Multispecies Grief in the Wake of Megafires
A global coalition of authors articulate the environmental violence of megafires by focusing on the myriad experiences of multispecies grief in their wake.
