Arcadia

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Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History is an open-access, peer-reviewed online journal for short, illustrated, and engaging environmental histories. Embedded in a particular time and place, each story focuses on a site, event, person, organization, or species as it relates to nature and human society. The journal promotes accessibility and visibility of original research in global environmental history and cognate disciplines.

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Current Issue

2023

Published December 19, 2023

Spring

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    Rachel Goldlust

    Housing for a Changing Climate: The Commonwealth Environmental Building Station in 1950s Australia

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9557
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    Julianne L. Warren, Michael Roche

    Sight and Sound: Beyond the Huia Extinction Story

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9560
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    Fernando Amador

    The Equestrian Suburb of Latine Los Angeles

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9561
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    Michael Hewson

    River Rights at Rockhampton (a Rhetoric)

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9565
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    Nathan Smith

    What Is a Fungus? Mycology’s Dada Moment

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9598
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    Duncan Money

    The Struggle for Air: Mining, Dust, and Death on the South African Rand

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9600
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    Sophie Chao

    The Colonial Roots of the Kangaroo Controversy

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9608

Summer

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    Michael Eilenberg, Annika Pohl Harrisson

    Boar-der Fencing: Human-Animal Conflicts in the Danish Borderlands

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9610
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    Robyn Gulliver

    Visions of a Nuclear Apocalypse: Notions of Nature in the 1970s Antinuclear Movement

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9611
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    Oscar Ulloa Calzada

    Cosmopolitics in the Territories of Xnizaa: The Defense of Water in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9615
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    Gressier Catie

    The Backyard Chook: Australia’s Enduring Nest Egg

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9621
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    Inês Gomes

    Capital Seeds and Hybrid Landscapes: Between Varied Landraces and Monotonous Technological Objects

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9628
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    Eduardo Relly

    Stevia as a Genetic Resource: Intellectual Property and Guaraní Strategies for Access-and-Benefit Sharing in Paraguay and Brazil

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9649
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    Perrakis Kollias Petros

    Development and Degradation in the Lakes of Lapsista and Ioannina from the 1950s to the Present

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9652
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    Matteo Sartori, Julia Prakofjewa

    Drimys winteri: Circulation of Environmental Ignorance in European Written Sources (1578–1776)

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9655
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    Victoria Myznikova

    Different Ways of Thinking Globally: The Unlikely Return of the Noosphere in Russian Environmental Discourses

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9658
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    James Morris

    Hydroelectric Power and the Ashio Copper Mine

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9646

Autumn

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    Teresa Lappe-Osthege, Jovana Diković

    Constructing Postconflict Memoryscapes: From Narratives of Division to Coexistence

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9684
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    Caroline Abbott

    Axes on the Ground: Wolves and Women on the North American Frontier

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9688
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    José Ignacio Mogrovejo

    A More-than-Human Viewpoint on the History of a “Peruvian” Disease

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9692
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    Robert Jacobs

    Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad: Animals Return to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9700
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    Philip Gooding

    Historic Lake Level Variability and Current Disasters on the Shores of Lake Tanganyika

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9745
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    Claire Connolly, Ailbhe McDaid, James L. Smith

    “Too Much Loose Sand”: Narrating Coastal Erosion in Southeast Ireland

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9753
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    Iosif Botetzagias

    “Is This a Society of Humans or of Dogs?”: The Issue of Roaming Dogs in Nineteenth-Century Athens

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9763