Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Worldview: Regressive Research Policy in Argentina
By Samantha Rothbart The National Scientific and Technical Research Council is in trouble. This was in the email sent to the RCC blog team by Carson alumna MarÃa Valeria Berros on 21st December 2016. She was standing alongside her fellow colleagues and scientists in Santa Fe, in dialogue with research fellows from all over the…
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Marriage Trees
“My Tree in Another’s Backyard†By Anna Leah Tabios Hillebrecht The first half of September found me in Santa Fe, Argentina, as part of the academic exchange on Transatlantic Perspectives on the Rights of Nature, cosponsored by BayLat and the Rachel Carson Center. It was my first time in South America and I was determined to…
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Worldview: Taking Care of the “Yaguareté†in the Littoral Region of Argentina
by MarÃa Valeria Berros When you walk around the Littoral region, northeast Argentina, you seldom hear the word “jaguar.†Here and across Argentina the Guaranà expression “yaguareté,†meaning “the real beast,†is more common. The presence of the yaguareté in many famous stories, songs, and legends highlights its importance in Argentine culture and history. The biggest…
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Student Project: The Birth of Geoengineering
by Martin Meiske Congratulations to RCC doctoral program member Martin Meiske, who received the prize for the best poster at the 2015 ESEH conference in Versailles. In his poster he presented his dissertation project on “The Birth of Geoengineering: Large-scale Engineering Projects in the Early Stage of the Anthropocene (1850–1950)â€â€”here, he tells us more about his…
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Worldview: Environmental Conflicts and Interdisciplinarity in Argentina
by MarÃa 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 question is fundamentally relevant, such as public debate, risk, and social…