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... of the article provides regional overviews of the current state of EH teaching around the world, divided into the following sections: Oceania, Asia, North America, Latin America, UK and Ireland, Northern Europe, Continental Europe, Africa. It is important to note that these overviews are necessarily partial...

... of Arthur Gordon Pym , 91 . 54. Hains, Ice and the Inland , 21–2 . 55. For further discussion see Lavery, “Antarctica and Africa,” 348 . 56. Le Guin, “Sur,” 41 . 57. Glasberg, Antarctica as Cultural Critique , 117 . For further discussion of “Sur” in relation...

...Melanie Boehi Abstract When the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden was established in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1913, it was envisioned as a site that served white citizens. Kirstenbosch was presented as a landscape in which plants functioned as representatives of their wild habitats...

... drought in Cape Town, South Africa, set water limits assuming four to six person households. 6 While applicable to many households, it was not in the lower-income homes where many WMDs were installed. Even where only four people sleep, we learned that many more rely on taps and water services in each...

... the media's need for fast-paced drama, clear moral resolutions, and visual spectacle. 13 The inundation of New York during Hurricane Sandy in October 2012 was attended by a deluge of images, but we have seen few pictures of the victims of the ten-year famine in the Horn of Africa—a tragedy which claimed...

... the roots as well as the effects of climate disorder. Entering Chilean colleagues’ discussion from the southern tip of a different continent, the question I ask is this: What would an equivalent manifesto look like in South Africa if it were to have traction in public and scholarly discussion on climate...

.... In this article we demonstrate the idea of invasive narratives through a case study of the ‘invasive alien species' (IAS) narrative in South Africa. We suggest that IAS reduces complex webs of ecological, biological, economic, and cultural relations to a simple ‘good’ versus ‘bad’ battle between easily...

... and sheer topography as part of imperialism’s moral project. It analyzes texts that recount events in and around India and parts of Africa, published between the 1890s and 1940s. The article’s author discusses a range of authors from obscure settlers and army officers to well-known proponents...

... that subsumed all parts of the globe—most especially Africa—into a doomsday narrative of human profligacy that lost sight of a kaleidoscopic patchwork of cultural landscapes. Fractal topographies, by contrast, serve as more effective indices of the recursive layering found in digital representations...

... of animal experimentation, our experiment also considered speculation linking the Xenopus pregnancy test to the extinction of other frogs. Amphibian biologists once hypothesized that Xenopus frogs brought a pathogenic fungus out of Africa. We found that this outbreak narrative projected colonial and racial...

.... Themes of cannibalism, vampirism, and other monstrous kinds of consumption are central to critiques of illegitimate power and wealth in Uganda and in many parts of Africa. See, e.g., Karlström, “Power in the Postcolony” ; Behrend, Resurrecting Cannibals ; White, Speaking with Vampires . 16...

..., in particular, operates outside the Western hemisphere. 43 In globally aggregated figures, this cancer is “the second leading cause of cancer death in men and the sixth leading cause among women, with about 745,500 deaths in 2012,” and the overwhelming majority of cases are found in Africa and East Asia...

... . [email protected] © 2022 Pierre du Plessis 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). multispecies methods Indigenous knowledge tracking gathering Africa Anthropologist Tim Ingold has long argued that landscapes...

... cultivate resilience, patience, and, above all, slow hope in their personal journeys. From slavery-era Brazil to budding industrialization, from Africa to Bahia, João de Deus had a great vantage point in Maraú Peninsula to observe nearly a century of change unfold ( figs. 2 and 3 ). Living off...

...: Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa . New York : Berghan Books , 2016 . Green A. William . “ Race and Slavery: Considerations on the Williams Thesis .” In British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery , edited by Solow Barbara and Engerman Stanley , 25 – 49...

... (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2011), 208. 3 Simon Pooley, “The Entangled Relations of Humans and Nile Crocodiles in Africa, c.1840-1992,” Environment and History (2015, in press). 4 “Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora,” Article...

... of carbohydrates during photosynthesis. The plant underneath the bell jar was a cultivar of the geranium Pelargonium sidoides , an aromatic, arid-adapted plant native to South Africa. This botanical context is significant to our reading of her novel, our assessment of Plath, and more broadly our understanding...

... epistemologies Angola Africa “We need reliable information on forests.” This plea traveled the world in a brochure made by a major agency of the United Nations. 1 A few years later, in 2012, NASA revealed the most accurate map ever produced of the United States’s forests. One leading researcher...

... of the Negotiation of ‘Nativeness' .” In Toxic Belonging: Identity and Ecology in Southern Africa , edited by Wylie Dan , 178 - 198 . Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing , 2008 . O'Gorman Emily . “ Experiments, Environments, Networks: Rice Farming Along the Murrumbidgee River...