Themes for 2026 ASLE Spotlight series:
Decolonizing Environments, January 23 @1pm EST
Embodied Approaches, February 6 @1pm
Multispecies Connections, March 13 @1pm
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Cool article about the Native American activism, much of it in the Pacific Northwest, that led to the Boldt decision. It centered on fishing rights, but the ruling was the first (in a minute) to respect the rights given to Native Americans by treaty. (1/6) ($ site)
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Cana Nongkhlaw, recipient of the 2025 Iain McCalman Honours Research Award, writes on Khasi #land-based practices and #biodiversity #conservation: "Place-based ontologies are not static or romantic. They are adaptive, situated, and often forged in the crucible of loss and resistance."
NEW tracks in the field: FrΓ©dΓ©ric Laugrand - "Sentient Beings, Hunting, and Respect: Animals and Inuit Cosmologies in the Canadian Arctic" online.ucpress.edu/ah
Jung LeeβsRenaming Plants and Nations in Japanese Colonial #Korea is out
Link: pse.is/8cu3uf
#envihist
Free download: βIsland Tinkerers: Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan's Computing Industryβ by Dr. Honghong Tinn
reurl.cc/VYG7vn
#STS
#Taiwan
#TSMC
Upcoming book by Antje Richter
#envhist
#China
pse.is/7q968g
Free download: reurl.cc/Gn6j5Z
#Japan
#envhist
Looks interesting! "Range contraction of the Yangtze finless porpoise inferred from classic Chinese poems"
Link: reurl.cc/M3DGdm
#envhist
#poetry
Free download: www.ucpress.edu/books/in-the...
#envhist
#Taiwan
#agriculture
Upcoming talk by Nancy Guy. For more info: is.gd/FxhtRQ
#Taiwan
#envhum
New book: Tofu: A Culinary History, written by Russell Thomas
#food
#China
#Japan
reurl.cc/WAl4ry
New book: Picturing Animals and Plants in Early Modern #China and #Japan, edited by Fan Lin & Doreen Mueller of Leiden Uni.
reurl.cc/46AjR2
#envhist
New book: Countless Sands: Medieval Buddhists and Their Environments, edited by Jeffrey Mose & Jason Protass
reurl.cc/b3QWME
#envhist
#Buddhism
New book: Fiona Williamsonβs βImperial Weather: #Meteorology, Science, and the Environment in Colonial #Malayaβ
Link: shorturl.at/wuLF8
#envhist
New talk on Zoom about agricultures (emphasis on the plural) in different parts of #China on Feb. 26, Wednesday, 5 pm EST. Here is the registration link:
hawaii.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#envhist
Got the book today. Cant wait to read this!
Link: www.sup.org/books/asian-...
#envhist
#China
Maxim Korolkov's Institutions and Environment in Ancient Southern East Asia (3000 BCE to 300 CE) is outοΌ
reurl.cc/kMb4Gr
#envhist
#Asia
New book: Ranjan Chakrabarti 's Climate, Calamity and the Wild: An Environmental History of the Bengal Delta, C.1737-1947
reurl.cc/RLoNRg
#envhist
#climate
#disaster
Very interesting article: Cheng Li's "Inventing Climate Change: Nature and Nation in Late Qing Chinese Science Fiction"
#envhum
#climate
#China
reurl.cc/NbYdM6
Here is my translation of Robert Campanyβs artcle βAn Ant and a Man, a Rock and a Woman: Preliminary Notes toward an Alternate History of Chinese Worldviewsβ (θθ»θη·δΊΊοΌε²©η³εε₯³δΊΊοΌ δΈεδΈηθ§ε¦ι‘ε²εζ’)
Link: reurl.cc/967kbx
#envhum
#China
New book: Singaporean Creatures: Histories of Humans and Other Animals in the Garden City, edited by Edited by Timothy P. Barnard
reurl.cc/747VxQ
#envhist
#animal
#Singapore
Upcoming talk βMaking, Dispossessing, and Protecting Watersheds in 20th-century Taiwanβ by Dr. John Kanbayashi
More info: www.ioe.sinica.edu.tw/content/Even...
#envhist
#Taiwan
If what you want for Christmas is a new book (that you can write a review of after you read it), I have you covered with some great titles in #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #aghist #animalstudies #plantstudies #conservation #disasters #energyhist
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Free e-book: Environmental Foundations to the Rise of Early Civilisations in China
#envhum
#China
cup.org/4gOHfur
Excited to see the tiger's return to the Chinese-North Korean borderland! For more on the history of tigers and Korea, see this article I co-authored:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
βIf one function of climate science is to address a global climate crisis, then the form of researching and making climate archivesβhow, where, and with whomβmust also changeβ
A π₯ collaborative #envhist essay by @roguechieftan.bsky.social & Lina PΓ©rez-Angelis
www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...
New book: Xiangli Ding's Hydropower Nation: Dams, Energy, and Political Changes in Twentieth-Century China
reurl.cc/L5MV3K
#envhist
#China
Handbook of Environmental History in Japan, edited by Fujihara Tatsushi, is out
#envhist
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep Water
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof Beats
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our Moon
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember
I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book listsβso I decided to make my own!
Introducing: β¨ππ The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books β¨ππ
Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
