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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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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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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Making Tracks: Karen Oslund
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. Imagining the Global Arctic By Karen Oslund In his What W. H. Auden Can Do for You, Alexander McCall Smith calls Auden “a…
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Making Tracks: Robert Gioielli
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. “We are also environmentalists” By Robert Gioielli One day in the spring of 2001 I received a call from Emory Campbell. At the…
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Making Tracks: Giacomo Parrinello
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. An Initiation Into Environmental History By Giacomo Parrinello I first heard of something called “environmental history†as a new MA graduate in history.…
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Making Tracks: Patrick Kupper
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. Question the Obvious: On the Benefits of Transnational Research By Patrick Kupper For the past few years I have been working on the…
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Making Tracks: Melanie Arndt
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. Chernobyl By Melanie Arndt I grew up in a country that does not exist anymore—East Germany or the GDR. Perhaps this partially explains…
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Making Tracks: Diana Mincyte
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. By Diana Mincyte My earliest encounters with “non-human†nature were those of gardening. Like many others in the socialist world, my parents had…