Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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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: 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: 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: 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: Claudia Leal
Far Away, So Close By Claudia Leal When I was a child, my family would get into the car every vacation and drive seven hours from Bogotá to Bucaramanga through the Colombian Andes. We bought biscuits in Arcabuco and bocadillo (guava paste) in Vélez before driving down into the terrifying Chicamocha Canyon. My dad invariably…