A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped human history, over the last 500 years.
In this magisterial...
The first biography of the Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine, celebrated in mid-twentieth-century Paris, her life shrouded in myth.
On a flower farm in colonial Algeria, a...
Geographic scholarship on landscape and colonialism has not substantially engaged with the specific logics of settler colonialism, propelling recent calls to “unlearn” and “...
Climate change law and policy have been influenced heavily by economic thinking. This article uses two manifestations of that thinking - the social cost of carbon and carbon...
Portuguese residents were terrified when the ground started shaking in the early hours of Monday morning last week. Environmental scientist Deborah R Coen explains why they...
Around 1900, at least 97 percent of homicide victims in Japan were newborn children. Official statistics obscured this fact by reporting only a handful of infanticides each...
Terrestrial, aquatic, and marine ecosystems regulate climate at local to global scales through exchanges of energy and matter with the atmosphere and assist with climate...
Sociology operates with an impoverished understanding of conservatism and the natural environment. The discipline’s focus on antiregulatory and antiscience dimensions...
Explore the fascinating history of America as told through the lens of food in this illustrated nonfiction middle grade book “sure to please history buffs and foodies alike...
Colton Klein, PhD Student in History of Art and Whitney Fellow in the Environmental Humanities, has published ”The Turpentine State: Minnie Evans and North Carolina Ecologies...
Santiago Acosta (San Francisco, Estados Unidos, 1983) es una de las voces más singulares de la poesía venezolana contemporánea. Ha publicado los libros Detrás de los erizos (...
The role of nature in Latin America has been central to both elite and grassroots political perspectives since the colonial era. These debates and struggles have taken on...
In the 1970s, as Venezuela rode the wave of one of the greatest oil booms in its history, abstract kinetic art (also called “cinetismo”) rose to the status of official visual...
There is a pressing need to discover forms of regulation that work in an era of widespread inequality, ecological catastrophe, and gridlocked government. The consensus,...
Never before in human history has Earth experienced a change in climate as rapid as the shift we’re living through today. Can history hold clues to an upheaval without...
Mosaics of carefully overlaid, glued feathers were a major art form of Mesoamerica, dating back at least to the 13th century, and especially prominent among the Nahua people...
In the mid-2010s, a passionate community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech innovators formed around virtual reality (VR), believing that it could...
An award-winning biologist and writer applies queer feminist theory to developmental genetics, arguing that individuals are not essentially male or female.
The idea that...
Nature and culture are perhaps the two most consistent moral categories in Western thought. And yet, despite their stability, what nature and culture represent within a given...
This article reads several works of African American literature that depict the urban roofscape as a site of contemporary fugitive praxis, made in and against the enclosures...
