Seeing the woods

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Seeing the Woods was created in 2012 by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) as a venue for our fellows and staff to contribute meaningful dialogue to ongoing discussions about the environmental humanities. Our mission here at Seeing the Woods is to demonstrate the relevance and importance of humanistic, historical, and social science perspectives in conversations about today’s environmental challenges. Our “ecopedia” is a repository for ideas, commentaries, and creative endeavors in search of the big-picture perspective.

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Beiträge

Published 2024 - 2026

Explorations

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    Natalia Rodriguez-Castañeda (Author)

    One-Planetary-Health: Reflections on Urban Novel Ecosystems in Bogotá and Copenhagen

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1293
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    Carlos E. Sánchez Pimienta (Author)

    Fostering the Health of Humans and the Planet in a World of Many Worlds

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1294
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    Pollyanna Rhee (Author)

    Food for an Abundant Future

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1295
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    Misria Shaik Ali (Author)

    The Planetary as Embodied

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1296
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    Dylan M. Harris (Author)

    Loss, Grief, and the Politics of Planetary Health

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1297
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    André Krebber, Nina Mackert (Author)

    Who Is the Planetary Health Diet For?

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1298
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    Thomas Storey (Author)

    Provocations of the Planetary: Ed Roberson’s Poetry of Scalar Disjunction

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1300
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    Dennis Liu (Author)

    Nature and Me Make Two: The Genesis of Biophilia

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1301
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    Paul Josephson (Author)

    Cities Under Water: Valencia, Spain, and Urban Flooding

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1303
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    Floris Winckel, Alice Murphy (Author)

    On the Scenic Beauty of Santiago: What Does the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Know About Aesthetics?

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1308
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    Vita Lacis (Author)

    Russian Environmental Politics: Reading Between the Lines—New Climate, New Strategy: Betting on the Revival of Mammoths over the End of Fossil Fuels

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1304
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    Juidth Bopp (Author)

    Exploring Health–Nutrition–Ecology Relationships and Resilience through Food-Farming Practices in Thailand

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1289
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    Vita Lacis (Author)

    Russian Environmental Politics: Reading Between the Lines—Wartime Ecology: Guns Before Forests

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1288
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    Vita Lacis (Author)

    Russian Environmental Politics: Reading Between the Lines - The Wounds of War, and What We Must Know

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1285

Field Notes

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    Eunice Blavascunas (Author)

    “How Does Your Tongue Even Lift to Hustle Me Along!”: Care and Surveillance in the Lithuanian Borderland

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1291
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    Karla García (Author)

    Interpreters of Dreams in the Ecuadorian Amazon

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1292
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    Judith Bopp (Author)

    The King of Fruits Needs Space

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1302
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    Aneurin Merrill-Glover (Author)

    On Moral Grounds? Carbon Futures for Lowland Peat

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1307
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    Lukas Kunerth, Carolin Funcke (Author)

    Hiking Through a Future Sacrifice Zone? A Story of Environmental Justice and Green Growth in the Tyrolean Alps

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1287

Imaginings

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    Tyanif Rico Rodríguez (Author)

    Careful Contemplations

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1299
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    Maile McFarland (Author)

    Plastic Trouble: A Graphic Novel, Part IV

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1310
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    Maile McFarland (Author)

    Plastic Trouble: A Graphic Novel, Part III

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1309
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    Maile McFarland (Author)

    Plastic Trouble: A Graphic Novel, Part II

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1306
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    Maile McFarland (Author)

    Plastic Trouble: A Graphic Novel, Part I

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1305

Matter of Degrees

  1. Kelly Donati (Author)

    Breath

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

  2. Susan Ballard (Author)

    Watch and Act, Summer

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

  3. Jessica White (Author)

    Smoke, Black Cockatoos, and Banksias

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

  4. Anna Ilz (Author)

    Between Here and There

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

  5. Kate Wright (Author)

    Gifts and Ghosts

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

  6. Rob Waters (Author)

    The Fire Knows No Boundaries

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

  7. Ruth Morgan (Author)

    Summer’s Tempo: Bushfires, Water, and Time

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

  8. Cameron Muir (Author)

    Canberra Dispatches

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

Breaking the Ice: Women, Science, and Antarctica

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    Samantha Grover (Author)

    Soil Down South?

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1323

  2. Jessica Reeves (Author)

    A Geologist on the Rocks

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1372

  3. Ghislaine (Platell) Small (Author)

    Noticing Tiny Things

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1375

  4. Melissa Haeffner (Author)

    Studying Scientists in Their Natural Habitat

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1376

  5. Lindsay Stringer (Author)

    Not All Penguins Are Clean

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1373

  6. Margaret Barbour (Author)

    Plant Blindness

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1371

Uses of Environmental History

  1. Sandra Swart (Author)

    Uses of Environmental History: Sandra Swart

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1363

  2. Lise Sedrez (Author)

    Uses of Environmental History: Lise Sedrez

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1364

  3. Don Worster (Author)

    Uses of Environmental History: Don Worster

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1366

  4. Tom Griffith (Author)

    Uses of Environmental History: Tom Griffiths

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1365

  5. Fern Hames (Author)

    We Are All Antarcticans

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1374

  6. Editorial Team RCC (Author)

    Snapshot: Do you Speak Envhist

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1370

  7. John McNeill (Author)

    Uses of Environmental History: John R. McNeill

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1369

  8. Stefania Barca (Author)

    Uses of Environmental History: Stefania Barca

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1368

  9. Paul Josephson (Author)

    Uses of Environmental History: Paul Josephson

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1367

Uses of Environmental Humanities

  1. Nicole Seymour (Author)

    The Aesthetics and Affects of Art in the Plasticene

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1354

  2. Lisa FitzGerald (Author)

    Earth Bodies: Ana Mendieta, Performance Art, and the Environmental Humanities

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1357

  3. Felix Bidder, Katie Ritson, Fabian Zimmer (Author)

    Learning and Teaching Across Hierarchies and Disciplines

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1358

  4. Bethany Wiggin (Author)

    Environmental Inhumanities

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1359

  5. Samantha Rothbart (Author)

    The Uses of Environemtnal Humanities

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1362

  6. Salma Monani (Author)

    Four Ways of Seeing the Uses of Ecomedia Studies

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1361

  7. Sule Emmanuel Egya (Author)

    Anglophone Environmental Writing in Nigeria

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1360

  8. Heidi E. Danzl (Author)

    A Sketch for Teaching the Anthropocene in the Alps

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1356

  9. Matthew Schneider-Mayerson (Author)

    Why Ecocriticism Needs the Social Sciences (and Vice Versa)

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1355

Bookshelf

  1. Brenda Black (Author)

    “Nature, Red in Tooth and Claw”: Jiang Rong’s “Wolf Totem”

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1338

  2. Jens Kersten (Author)

    Bookshelf: Jens Kersten on Inwastement—Abfall in Umwelt und Gesellschaft

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1339

  3. Yan Gao (Author)

    Paradigm Shifts in Environmental Thinking: Autonomous Nature by Carolyn Merchant

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1353

  4. Ernst Langthaler (Author)

    Bookshelf: “Empire of Cotton” by Sven Beckert

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1352

  5. Katie Ritson (Author)

    Bookshelf: The Breakthrough of Environmental History

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1351

  6. Annika Spenger (Author)

    Book review: Fire: A Brief History (Second Edition) by Stephen J. Pyne

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1349

  7. Arnab Dey (Author)

    Bookshelf: “Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity” by Timothy Mitchell

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1340

  8. Rodrigo Salido Moulinié (Author)

    Book Review: Elizabeth Hennessy, On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galápagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1350

  9. Amanda Boetzkes (Author)

    Bookshelf: “What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions?” by Vinciane Despret, translated by Brett Buchanan

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1341

  10. Bob Wilson (Author)

    Bookshelf: The Troubled History of Environmentalism

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1342

  11. Zhen Wang (Author)

    Toward a Beautiful Rural Life

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1343

  12. Jane Carruthers (Author)

    Bookshelf Special Feature Part 1: National Park Science by Jane Carruthers

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1344

  13. Bernhard Gißibl (Author)

    Bookshelf Special Feature Part 2: National Park Science

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1345

  14. Marco Armiero (Author)

    Review of “Disrupted Landscapes: State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania” by Stefan Dorondel

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1346

  15. Jesica J. Lee (Author)

    Q&A with Jessica J. Lee

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1347

  16. Eugenio Luciano (Author)

    Book Review: Quest for the Unity of Knowledge, by David Lowenthal

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc-seeingthewoods-1348