Plastic Water: The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water by Gay Hawkins, Emily Potter and Kane Race MIT Press, 2015 How did branded bottles of water insinuate themselves into our daily lives? Why did water become an economic good—no longer a common resource but a commercial product, in...
New Journal International Review of Environmental History free online ANU ePress International Review of Environmental History takes an interdisciplinary and global approach to environmental history. It publishes on all thematic and geographical topics of environmental history, but especially encourages articles with perspectives focussed on or developed from the southern hemisphere and...
Susanna Lidström The environmental challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century are not only acute and grave, they are also unprecedented in kind, complexity and scope. Nonetheless, or therefore, the political response to problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss and widespread pollution continues to fall...
New museum work in repairing past injustices http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/book-tells-of-19th-century-bodysnatching-and-skull-collecting-20150619-ghr9e8.html Book launch: The Hanged Man and the Body Thief. Mon 29 June at 6:30pm.Readings Lygon St, Carlton. Alexandra Roginski's book will be launched by Tom Griffiths For details of the book: http://www.publishing.monash.edu/books/hmbt-9781922235664.html...
The Anthropocene Lyric is an interdisciplinary extension to studies of space and place. Responding to the cultural and environmental crises the term 'Anthropocene' shoulders, the book's purpose is to pose a single question: how to rethink our place on this planet through poetry. Tom Bristow takes...
Deb Anderson, Monash University CSIRO Publishing Endurance presents stories of ordinary Australians grappling with extraordinary circumstances, providing insight into their lives, their experiences with drought and their perceptions of climate change. The book opens with the physical impacts, science, politics and economics of drought and climate change in...
Network of African Environmental Humanities Featured in the African Historical Review From the Rachel Carson Center: An article on the African Network of Environmental Humanities (ANEH) was recently featured in the African Historical Review, a biannual, peer-reviewed academic journal on the history of Africa. Written by Dr....
Ruth A. Morgan University of Western Australia Press, 320 pp, PB, February 2015. For nearly 200 years the visions and aspirations of the people of Australia’s west have been characterised by an unquenchable thirst. Ruth Morgan uncovers the fear of running out of water — a fear...
The calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histories. Arguing for a more complex account of such calamities, Kate Rigby examines a variety of past disasters, from the Black Death...
NEW BOOK! Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire: New Views on Environmental History. Edited by James Beattie, Edward Melillo, Emily O’Gorman. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. Nineteenth-century British imperial expansion has dramatically shaped today‘s globalised world. Imperialism drove mass migrations of people and altered the trajectories of trade. It...