Antiikki ja luonto : roomalainen luontokäsitys Lucretiuksen, Horatiuksen ja M. T. Varron mukaan

Kaksi katastrofia, kolme tragediaa

Arvio teoksesta Kroll-Smith, Steve. Recovering Inequality. Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake, and the Aftermath of Disaster. University Press of Texas. 2018. 198 s. ISBN 978-1-4773-1611-5. nonPeerReviewed

Race, Environment, and Crisis : Hurricane Camille and the Politics of Southern Segregation

In August 1969 Hurricane Camille hit the Mississippi coast. We argue that the disaster caused by the Hurricane was an outcome of the entanglement between human and non-human agents. As a non-human agent, Hurricane Camille thrust the prevailing socio-economic situation in the segregationist South into the spotlight, with all its political and cultural ramifications – much to the annoyance of the local political elite that had long sought to isolate southern politics from civil rights and the desegregation agenda. Consequently, it (re)invigorated and furnished the civil rights movement and the politics defining that era with new arguments and approaches that would have been impossible to dev…

Ilmasto on kaikkien huulilla, mutta humanistit leikkivät kuurupiiloa

An economic tail wagging an ecological dog? : Well-being and sustainable development from the perspective of entangled history

The historical approach to planetary well-being provides an understanding of how environmental problems and climate crises run over time, entangled with chronic social (mal)developments and path dependencies. As humans and the nonhuman world are entangled in larger webs of life, human political and economic action is deeply affected and is amplified by natural processes. Consequently, understanding well-being anthropocentrically has guided political decision-making in ways that have magnified the negative human impacts on eco- and climate systems. Environmental history invites us to ask how well-being has been defined in different historical contexts, on what grounds these definitions are m…

Dipesh Chakrabarty, The Climate of History in a Planetary Age

Hurrikaanien pitkät jäljet

Suomalainen media keskittyy hurrikaaneja koskevassa uutisoinnissaan listaamaan kulloinkin Yhdysvalloissa maihin iskeneen hurrikaanin kuolonuhrien ja taloudellisten tuhojen määrää. Tällainen uutisointi voi pahimmillaan irrottaa hurrikaanit niiden laajemmista yhteiskunnallisista vaikutuksista. nonPeerReviewed

Teknologian- ja ympäristöhistorian onnistunut kädenpuristus