Category: Series
Making Tracks: Dan Lewis
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. Slow Down and Smell the Birds by Dan Lewis Rarely do things… Continue Reading “Making Tracks: Dan Lewis”
Worldview: Antarctica
by Ingo Heidbrink Antarctica is the only continent with a permanent population of zero, and it has a strong international regulation system governing human activities from research to tourism. One might question whether an environmental history of Antarctica, beyond natural history, could therefore even… Continue Reading “Worldview: Antarctica”
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… Continue Reading “Making Tracks: Joana Gaspar de Freitas”
Worldview: Learning to Love (or Hate?) Pesticides in the USA
by Michelle Mart As scholars, we spend time revisiting the turning points of history, seeking to understand what made particular periods or figures so significant. Thus, I looked back to Rachel Carson and Silent Spring, trying to understand why the author and her book… Continue Reading “Worldview: Learning to Love (or Hate?) Pesticides in the USA”
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… Continue Reading “Making Tracks: Jenny Price”
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… Continue Reading “Making Tracks: Chioma Daisy Onyige”
Worldview: Environmental Conflicts and Interdisciplinarity in Argentina
by María Valeria Berros Environmental issues are highly debated in today’s Argentina, and are researched across a range of disciplines—political science, sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, literature, and law—as problems linking nature protection, development, and poverty. Analysis has begun to focus on disciplines where the ecological… Continue Reading “Worldview: Environmental Conflicts and Interdisciplinarity in Argentina”
Worldview: Transient Lifestyle, Everlasting Environmental Impacts: Reflections from my Time in Munich
by Laurianne Posch Standing in my grandparents’ kitchen at a family gathering on a sunny winter’s day in Iowa I overheard my uncle ask my cousin, who was around my age, the seemingly simple question: “So where are you living right now?” I cringed,… Continue Reading “Worldview: Transient Lifestyle, Everlasting Environmental Impacts: Reflections from my Time in Munich”
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… Continue Reading “Making Tracks: Piers Locke”
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… Continue Reading “Making Tracks: John Agbonifo”
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