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EHN showcases the env-related work + expertise of grad students & ECRs who identify as women, trans and/or nonbinary people #EnvHist #EnvHum 🌱🌍
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Environmental History NowSep 16, 2025

Join us for EHN's 7th Anniversary Week!

We're releasing a new essay everyday this week. First one up: Rae Ferner-Rose's "Strange Assemblages," on zoos and wildlife parks in the context of anthropogenic climate change and conservation discourse. #envhis #envhum

https://envhistnow.com/2025/09/15/strange-assemblages-the-environmental-uncanny-and-the-british-wildlife-park/

Strange Assemblages: The Environmental Uncanny and the British Wildlife Park

The zoo, a space that once spoke to human domination over nature, now proves a morally loaded stage on which the biodiversity crisis slips out of our hands.

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Environmental History NowOct 17, 2024

Thrilled to share Katherine Cheung's new post, crossposted with our friends at Edge Effects, on seeing vegetal timescales!

https://envhistnow.com/2024/10/15/plant-blindness-and-seeing-vegetal-timescales/

Plant Blindness and “Seeing” Vegetal Timescales

What is the concept of “plant blindness”? How can the arts help us to appreciate different timescales and plants’ ways of being?

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Environmental History NowSep 15, 2024
Environmental History NowDec 20, 2023

Today on EHN: Yolima Vargas GarzĂłn (@yoligrilla) reflects on the ongoing debate about hippos as invasive species in the Colombian Magdalena Basin.

https://envhistnow.com/2023/12/20/we-are-running-out-of-time-to-control-escobars-hippos/

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We Are Running Out of Time to Control Escobar’s Hippos

In 1981, four hippos from the United States arrived in Colombia, with another 1,200 animals, as part of a new, extravagant 2,000-hectare zoo in the Hacienda Nápoles.[1] This reserve, owned by the f…

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Environmental History NowSep 15, 2024
Environmental History NowSep 11, 2024

Anniversary Week Essay #1

Amelia Diehl's essay, "Premature Electrification," on the relationship between cars and petro-masculinity in a time of transition to electric vehicles.

https://envhistnow.com/2024/09/09/premature-electrification-petro-masculine-panic-in-the-ev-era/

“Premature Electrification”: Petro-masculine Panic in the EV Era

Among the varied significations circulating around the petroleum-powered car, the commodity has operated as a salient vehicle for expressions and tools of hetero-masculinity.

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Anniversary Week Retrospective #5

A retrospective featuring the life world of plants, animals, and water, featuring essays by Nicole Hodgson, Yolima Vargas GarzĂłn ([email protected]), and Lucile Truffy.

https://envhistnow.com/2024/09/13/ehn-anniversary-week-retrospective/

EHN’s 6th Anniversary Retrospective

To wrap up this year’s anniversary week, the EHN team would like to showcase three essays featuring the life world of plants, animals, and water.

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Anniversary Week Essay #4

Araceli Ramos's "The Role of Natural History Museums in Conservation Science and Communication," exploring the potentials of natural history museums for public education+outreach, raising issues of conservation, and the study of biodiversity.

https://envhistnow.com/2024/09/12/the-role-of-natural-history-museum-collections-in-conservation-science-and-communication/

The Role of Natural History Museum Collections in Conservation Science and Communication

In an era marked by a pressing global climate crisis and alarming rates of biodiversity loss, natural history museums stand out as beacons of hope in our collective struggle against environmental d…

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Anniversary Week Essay #3

Teja Šosterič's essay from NiCHE, "Turning the Tide," a queer reading of orcas that corrects biases, giving female orcas their due!

https://envhistnow.com/2024/09/11/turning-the-tide-a-queer-look-at-the-orca/

Turning the Tide: A Queer Look at the Orca

I no longer think that science holds little or no bias. Through entrenching heteronormativity and patriarchy, biases hurt not only the queer community but all communities, because they display a sk…

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Anniversary Week Essay #2

Caroline Kreysel's "The Raised Bog Underneath the Farm," a rumination on multiple temporalities and nonhuman agents of the Peel, bog landscapes, and sphagnum moss.

https://envhistnow.com/2024/09/10/the-raised-bog-underneath-the-farm-walking-into-the-past-and-the-present/

The Raised Bog Underneath the Farm: Walking into the Past and the Present

Throughout the past 150 years, the Peel underwent drastic changes due to drainage projects, turf-cutting, and animal farming. The new materialities these uses produced can make one almost forget th…

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Environmental History NowSep 12, 2024
Environmental History NowSep 11, 2024

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Environmental History NowSep 11, 2024

Anniversary Week Essay #1

Amelia Diehl's essay, "Premature Electrification," on the relationship between cars and petro-masculinity in a time of transition to electric vehicles.

https://envhistnow.com/2024/09/09/premature-electrification-petro-masculine-panic-in-the-ev-era/

“Premature Electrification”: Petro-masculine Panic in the EV Era

Among the varied significations circulating around the petroleum-powered car, the commodity has operated as a salient vehicle for expressions and tools of hetero-masculinity.

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