Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Making Tracks: Matthew Booker
In the “Making Tracks” series, RCC fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center. For more information, please click here. Why Did Americans Stop Eating Locally? by Matthew Booker I am a child of the 1970s. My family might be called “back-to-the-landers.” In…
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CfP: ASLE 11th Biennial Conference
Notes from Underground: The Depths of Environmental Arts, Culture and Justice Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Eleventh Biennial Conference, June 23-27, 2015 University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho In Notes from Underground (1864), Dostoyevsky explores relations between modernity and its discontents at an important historical conjuncture: the novella’s unnamed, unpleasant hero rails…
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Environmentalism from Below
Appraising the Efficacy of Small-Scale and Subaltern Environmentalist Organizations By Marianna Dudley As the recent World Congress of Environmental History in Guimaraes (Portugal) confirmed, our discipline is a truly international endeavour. But while conferences provide opportunities to present work, discuss ideas and make new friends, busy schedules make it hard to consolidate these experiences into…
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Making Tracks: Mike Hulme
In the “Making Tracks” series, RCC fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center. For more information, please click here. Weather and Culture as a Teenage Boy in Scotland: The Early Days and Development of My Interest in the Environmental Humanities by Mike…
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Photo of the Week: Guillermo Ospina
Boliche is one of the few remaining peasants in the paramo of La Nevera, a zone located 3,000 meters above sea level (4,200 m. max.) near the Las Hermosas National Park in the peaks of the Central range of the Colombian Andes. Accompanied by his two dogs, an old radio, and a white horse, and…
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Photo of the Week: Tobias Schiefer
I photographed this European Green Toad (Bufo viridis viridis Laurenti, 1768) in Riem, on the outskirts of Munich. The primary habitats of the European Green Toad in Germany are sand and gravel beds on the floodplains of rivers, a dynamic landscape due to the regular input of virgin soil and freshwater. Due to river regulation…
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Exploring the Po River Delta: An Experiment in Digital Multimedia Storytelling
By Giacomo Parrinello (Link to multimedia map) One of the most important things I have learnt over these years of research is that the “archives of the feet” is as vital to history as it is to geography. Historians, and especially environmental historians, should not write of a place they have not seen in person.…
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Help the RCC Translate the Anthropocene!
The RCC is putting together a major exhibition on the Anthropocene at the Deutsches Museum. The opening display will contain a number of quotes about the Anthropocene from major scholars. We would like to display these quotes in as many languages as possible. So if you are a native speaker of a language other than…
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Social Learning at the Osterseen Nature Reserve
Inaugural Place-Based Workshop Explores How Disciplines Read Landscapes Post by Johanna Bär, Adrian Franco, Rob Emmett, and Elena Torres Ruiz Photo credits: Anna Rühl Last month, a group of two dozen RCC graduate students, visiting fellows, and LMU faculty traveled to the Osterseen nature reserve for our inaugural place-based workshop. The Osterseen are a chain…