Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Socio-Politico-Economic Problems in the Hilly Areas of Bangladesh: the Case of the Chittagong Hill Tracts
By Khaled Misbahuzzaman The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs) make up the south-eastern region of Bangladesh. This region shares international boundaries with the Indian states of Tripura to the north and Mizoram to the east, and the Chin and Rakhain states of Myanmar to the south-east and south. The vegetation is lush and tropical with natural…
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The Long History of “Going Wild” in Erris, Ireland
Wilderness is not just a place. It is also a concept that hides power relations. By Shane McCorristine Erris, a region of County Mayo in the west of Ireland, has won the Irish Times award for the Best Place to Go Wild in Ireland 2014. But what does it really mean for a place to…
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The RCC in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
The Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) recently published an article about the Rachel Carson Center’s successful evaluation. The article described the history of the Rachel Carson Center and its goal of becoming the leading international and interdisciplinary center for environmental researchers, with a strong focus on the humanities. It also notes that the RCC constitutes an important…
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Making Tracks: Nicole Seymour
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. The Great Indoors: Notes on a Perverse Path to the Environmental Humanities by Nicole Seymour One of my colleagues once posted an image…
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Worldview: No Such Thing as the End of History: Good News from the Amazon
This week, we bring you a new Perspectives volume in Portuguese and exciting developments from the Amazon rainforest. The RCC Perspectives 2013/7 volume entitled New Environmental Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean has just been published in Portuguese, translated by former RCC intern Filipa Soares. It includes short histories both of individual countries and…
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Editing the Environment
By Dominic Kotas I had heard of editing before I applied to become an editor at the RCC, but I had never really done it, and I didn’t know much about environmental studies. My first volume of RCC Perspectives, then, was a challenge. Certainly I added to my knowledge of human-nature relations in the cosmology…
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A Toxic Legacy: The Science and Politics of Depleted Uranium and Other Heavy Metals
By Stephanie Hood, RCC Editor RCC staff, fellows, and visiting scholars were drawn together last week for a lunchtime discussion with Prof. Dr. Peter Horn—expert in isotope geochemistry at LMU—on the environmental detection of depleted uranium (DU) and other heavy metals. Horn introduced his topic with an overview of the background of DU use and…
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Cocaine, Schizophrenia, and Nuclear Reactors: Life as an RCC Editor
By Brenda Black Our work as editors at the RCC requires us to be generalists (because of the wide variety of topics encountered), but also capable of interpreting highly specialized texts (because it is impossible to edit what one does not understand). For one issue of Perspectives, my google search history included: cocaine, schizophrenia, bottlenecking,…
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John Agbonifo To Help Found African Network of Environmental Humanities
RCC alumnus John Agbonifo is part of team that is in the process of creating the African Network of Environmental Humanities (ANEH). The ANEH is a new multidisciplinary association of scholars resident in Africa and abroad who share a common passion to explore and understand the nexus between human societies and the environment, and how…