Environmental history
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Talking Indonesia: Indonesian ecological thinking
CASAS’ member Fathun Karib has been interviewed by Jemma Purdey, Elisabeth Kramer, Tito Ambyo, Jacqui Baker, and Clara Siagian for Indonesia at Melbourne about a recent book. Bacaan Bumi is a book that emerged from conversations sparked by a groundbreaking summer school on critical environmental history at Gadjah Mada University—Indonesia’s first university program of its…
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Book review: Creatures of Fashion: Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia, by John Soluri
CASAS’ member, Mercedes Ejarque, has just published a book review in the Journal of Agrarian Change. The book reviewed proposes a reconstruction of the history of the southernmost extremity of the continent (currently Argentinean and Chilean territories) by examining the impact of the commodification of animals (native and exotic) on the relations between society and…