Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Making Tracks: Joana Gaspar de Freitas
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 Sea and the Sand: Building a Path in Environmental History by Joana Gaspar de Freitas The path that we take is never…
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Making Tracks: Jenny Price
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. “And you ask yourself, well . . . How did I get here?” —Talking Heads, Once in a Lifetime by Jenny Price When my…
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Making Tracks: Chioma Daisy Onyige
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. “Omoku: My Environment, My Heritage, My Reality.” By Chioma Daisy Onyige I was born in the late 1970s in the town of Omoku in…
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Making Tracks: Piers Locke
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. “Interspecies Ethnography and Human-Elephant Relations in South Asia” by Piers Locke If we think of elephants in India, Sri Lanka, or Nepal, we…
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Making Tracks: John Agbonifo
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. “From Environmental Injustice to the Environmental Humanities” by John Agbonifo The 1980s was a turbulent political period in Nigeria’s history. The decade witnessed…
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Making Tracks: Sigurd Bergmann
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. “Religion as a Creative Skill in Environmental Change—Exploring the Entanglement of Images of God, Nature, and the Sacred” by Sigurd Bergmann The thread…
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Making Tracks: Sai Suryanarayanan
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. “Relations between Scientists and Animals in Experimental Systems” by Sai Suryanarayanan Late one warm and starry July 2007 night in Madison, Wisconsin, I sneaked…
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Making Tracks: Maurits Ertsen
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. “When Not a Tree Hugger, Is One a Tree Hater?” (paraphrasing Doug Coupland) by Maurits Ertsen I am not an environmentalist. Don’t get…
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Making Tracks: Cameron Muir
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. “A Place Where All But Man Is Vile, and Every Prospect Displeases†by Cameron Muir Reading the other Making Tracks posts I am struck…