Toxic Timescapes
Examining Toxicity across Time and Space
Edited by Simone M. Müller and May-Brith Ohman Nielsen
From radioactive waste to coral reefs, this environmental humanities volume reconsiders contamination and pollution as toxic timescapes: dynamic events with both temporal and spatial dimensions. The new concept promises to transform our knowledge of history, human geography, science and technology studies, philosophy, and political ecology.
Human Geography · History | Historical Geography · Science | Environmental Science · Environmental Studies
Toxic Timescapes
Examining Toxicity across Time and Space
Edited by Simone M. Müller and May-Brith Ohman Nielsen
From radioactive waste to coral reefs, this environmental humanities volume reconsiders contamination and pollution as toxic timescapes: dynamic events with both temporal and spatial dimensions. The new concept promises to transform our knowledge of history, human geography, science and technology studies, philosophy, and political ecology.
Human Geography · History | Historical Geography · Science | Environmental Science · Environmental Studies
Environment, Power, and Justice
Southern African Histories
Edited by Graeme Wynn, Jane Carruthers, and Nancy J. Jacobs
With appreciation for both regional and chronological variation, this volume’s contributors track the global concept of environmental justice to analyze its influence in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Lesotho and to expand popular understandings of social-environmental harm.
History | Historical Geography · Human Rights · Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social · Southern Africa · Environmental Studies · African Studies · History | Africa | South | General
Becoming a Place of Unrest
Environmental Crisis and Ecophenomenological Praxis
By Robert Booth
In this bold argument, Robert Booth asserts that the environmental crisis stems from our anthropocentric understanding of, and behavior in, the more-than-human world. Linking environmental phenomenology to ecofeminism, he shows why and how an ecophenomenological praxis may interrupt the environmental crisis at its source.
Philosophy | Movements | Phenomenology · Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection · Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory · Philosophy · Environmental Studies
Ken Saro-Wiwa
By Roy Doron and Toyin Falola
A penetrating, accessible portrait of the activist whose execution galvanized the world. Hanged by the Nigerian government on November 10, 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa became a martyr for the Ogoni people and for human rights activists, as well as a symbol of modern Africans’ struggle against military dictatorship, corporate power, and environmental exploitation.
Biography, Activists · Environmental Studies · African History · African Studies · Nigeria · Western Africa · Africa
Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula
By Benjamin Reilly
In Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula, Benjamin Reilly illuminates a previously unstudied phenomenon: the large-scale employment of people of African ancestry as slaves in agricultural oases within the Arabian Peninsula.
History of the Arabian Peninsula · Slavery and Slave Trade · Environmental Studies · History | Historical Geography · Middle East
The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia
Deposing the Spirits
By James C. McCann
Malaria is an infectious disease like no other: it is a dynamic force of nature and Africa’s most deadly and debilitating malady. James C. McCann tells the story of malaria in human, narrative terms and explains the history and ecology of the disease through the science of landscape change. All malaria is local.
History | Historical Geography · Ethiopia · Environmental Studies · African Studies · Medical | Public Health · Social Science | Disease & Health Issues · History | Africa | East
Mountaintop Mining in Appalachia
Understanding Stakeholders and Change in Environmental Conflict
By Susan F. Hirsch and E. Franklin Dukes
Residents of the Appalachian coalfields share a history and heritage, deep connections to the land, and pride in their own resilience. These same residents are also profoundly divided over the practice of mountaintop mining. Looking beyond the slogans and seemingly irreconcilable differences, however, can reveal deeper causes of conflict.
Social Science | Regional Studies · Environmental Policy · Conflict Resolution (Business and Econ.) · Appalachia · Ohio and Regional · Environmental Studies
Mountaintop Mining in Appalachia
Understanding Stakeholders and Change in Environmental Conflict
By Susan F. Hirsch and E. Franklin Dukes
Residents of the Appalachian coalfields share a history and heritage, deep connections to the land, and pride in their own resilience. These same residents are also profoundly divided over the practice of mountaintop mining. Looking beyond the slogans and seemingly irreconcilable differences, however, can reveal deeper causes of conflict.
Social Science | Regional Studies · Environmental Policy · Conflict Resolution (Business and Econ.) · Appalachia · Ohio and Regional · Environmental Studies
From Mastery to Mystery
A Phenomenological Foundation for an Environmental Ethic
By Bryan E. Bannon
From Mastery to Mystery is an original and provocative contribution to the burgeoningfield of ecophenomenology. Informed by current debates in environmental philosophy, Bannon critiques the conception of nature as u200a“substance” that he finds tacitly assumed by the major environmental theorists.
Environment at the Margins
Literary and Environmental Studies in Africa
Edited by Byron Caminero-Santangelo and Garth Myers
Environment at the Margins brings literary and environmental studies into a robust interdisciplinary dialogue, challenging dominant ideas about nature, conservation, and development in Africa and exploring alternative narratives offered by writers and environmental thinkers. The essays bring together scholarship in geography, anthropology, and environmental history with the study of African and colonial literatures and with literary modes of analysis.
History | Historical Geography · Literary Criticism, Africa · African Studies · Environmental Studies
Custodians of the Land
Ecology and Culture in the History of Tanzania
Edited by Gregory H. Maddox, James L. Giblin, and Isaria N. Kimambo
Farming and pastoral societies inhabit ever-changing environments. This relationship between environment and rural culture, politics and economy in Tanzania is the subject of this volume which will be valuable in reopening debates on Tanzanian history.In
African History · Environmental Studies · History | Historical Geography · Tanzania · African Studies
