Search Results for history of environmentalism

...Sterling Evans The field of environmental history in the past twenty years has become an important discipline for every continent on earth. Yet this internationalization has taken a more recent trans national turn, which this essay addresses. Now various scholars are asking questions about...

...Mark Carey Recent scholarship on Latin American environmental history builds on and enriches the field's traditional orientation toward colonialism, capitalism, and conservation. This essay analyzes four themes present in this new environmental history research: the transnational study...

...Robert B. Marks Environmental and world history emerged and established themselves as innovative subfields of history over the past thirty years, each making important contributions to historians' understanding of historical processes. Recently, several important books have begun to explore...

...Michael Egan This essay examines the widespread mercury poisoning that afflicted Iraq in 1972 as an entry point into a broader discussion of boundaries and nations in global environmental history. After poor harvests, the Iraqi government invested heavily in Green Revolution “wonder wheat,” which...

...David Kinkela; Neil M. Maher In this interview we sit down with one of the founding voices of environmental history, Donald Worster, to discuss the state of the field and to reflect on the impact of his 1982 essay, “World without Borders: The Internationalization of Environmental History,” which...

... and nature in a global context. And since it has been ten years since Radical History Review produced a volume wres- tling with the complexities of environments in history (“Environmental Politics and Human Geographies,” issue 74, spring 1999), the moment seemed right to reassess the politics...

... adds that literary analysis elucidates and informs ideas about environmental challenges. 15 Oral history deepens and extends this focus on the meanings and values of environmental change by highlighting the perspectives of women and men who did not leave written works behind. While I conducted some...

... in the Institute for Southern Studies at the Univer- sity of South Carolina. He specializes in the environmental and American Indian history of the American South and has a forthcoming book titled “In the Shadow of Removal: Histori- cal Memory, Indianness, and the Tellico Dam Project.” Kathryn Hicks...

... of Plants,” 799 . Pessimism and political inertia are luxuries we cannot afford in the current historical context. We know from the essays collected in this issue of Radical History Review that subaltern environmentalisms grow from hardy seeds, seeds of insurrection. We hope that their germination...

... be read as a vital explanation of the way that food chains and the food industry have historically functioned and subsequently shaped eating habits. The book adopts a “commodity-­web” framework and admir- ably combines economic, labor, environmental, and cultural history to provide a truly...

... built in the desert without thought to history or environmental impact, as a model to project neoliberal desires in places like his hometown, Luanda. Copyright © 2018 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 2018 city architecture aesthetics photography ...

... and to the needs of working-class people whose livelihoods depend on the lands and water-scapes affected by the spill. In the process, the essay, which examines methods for democratizing the classroom, raises questions about the ways environmental history is taught and the need for institutional flexibility...

... In a seminal 1982 essay on environmental history and its place in the general profes- sion, Donald Worster criticizes historians for their narrow focus on the nation-state as the object and subject of history.1 He calls for transcending this narrow perspec- tive and for pursuing environmental history along...

... of landscape became reified in the first national parks.” 6 Moreover, Carolyn Finney observes that the NPS is “a site where cultural identity, environmental values, and American history intersect and are actively transmitted to the public.” 7 With this in mind, I attend to the national parks as one...

... epistemological uncertainty among those who work on environmental history.13 Yet, as Geoff Eley has argued for the wider dis- Gaynor | Flexible Fishing  77 cipline, it may prove most productive to live, albeit critically, with this uncertainty rather than...

...” spaces, but also the geography and politics of the built environment. The issue brings together, in this sense, environmental politics with essays on the politics of the environment. Laura Cameron’s ”Histories of Disturbance” introduces Sir Arthur Tansely, who coined the term ”ecosystem...

... to grasp when I developed a new seminar titled “Animals in America: Cultural and Environmental Histories.” I designed the class in 2006 while teaching at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). I started with a simple intention: to expose seniors and gradu- ate students at this large...

... 2010 notes on contributors Samer Alatout is on the faculty of the Department of Community and Environmental Sociol- ogy (formerly the Department of Rural Sociology), the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environ- mental Studies, and the Center for Culture, History, and the Environment...

... of ”environmental law” and gave rise to the Environmental Defense Fund, one of the two genuinely new national organizations to RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW 74:31-64 1999 32/RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW devote itself to what became known in this period as an ”environmental” political agenda...

... recent interest is connecting environmentalism to social justice, including labor, feminist, anti-racist, prison abolitionist, and anti-colonialist movements. Because of anarchism’s focus on abolishing both human and nonhuman forms of exploitation and domination, the history of anarchist politics may...