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Little existing work studies public perceptions of climate-induced migration. We redress this gap, drawing on diverse literatures in political science and social psychology. We argue that climate m...

This article provides an account of how humans and parrots interacted in African tropical forests during the Holocene. Underscoring the growing intersections of environmental history with a...

This article explores how the Swedish historian Birgitta Oden (1921–2016) sought to launch an interdisciplinary environmental research program in the late 1960s. Oden’s objective was to mak...

This article analyzes the relationship between media, fire ecology, and Indigenous fire management in the context of Australia’s catastrophic fire events of 2020. How might ethnographic attention t...

The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been structured around the idea that human connection and sociality are bad—they are dangerous. This essay suggests that, perhaps paradoxica...

The last “global coral bleaching event” lasted three years (2014–2017), solidifying the plight of the world’s coral reefs as a defining problem of the Anthropocene. The catastrophe inspired countle...

With a long history predating modern humans, big-game hunting has been implicated in catalyzing human evolution through nutritional and provisioning benefits. An alternative view argues for this pr...

We first experience the joy and necessity of belonging to a world beyond the family as we take roles in one another’s imaginative play. Together we are inventing new communities, in which m...

Climate change is one of the most urgent issues facing society today, and scientists have an important opportunity to teach students and other audiences about climate change. With climate communication, it can be tempting to think that the primary goal should be to get more people to accept climate change, but true climate literacy requires not just an understanding of the reality of climate change but also acting on that understanding. Here, I argue that there is an important role for communicating about climate change with people who already accept that it is occurring. Such communication can help people improve their understanding, increasing their certainty regarding climate change and its drivers, and spur them to take action. Social science research has important insights regarding how to communicate in a way that encourages people to change behaviors, including aiming to increase personal and collective efficacy and helping people figure out how to meet key needs while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Climate change communicators should seek out audiences that already accept climate change, helping those individuals deepen their understanding and energizing and empowering these people to act.

One of today's most pressing Issues feeing Egyptology, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, and the Humanities in general is the question of how and why one conducts scholarly research Gone are the days when acdemia could be practiced in a sequestered, ivory tower with research conducted purely for its own sake The factors behind this turn arc complex and beyond the scope of this article to fully articulate On the one hand, there is a growing consciousness of the racial, demographic, and classist biases perpetuated by the existing system Combined with increasing discourse surrounding social, political, and environmental crises, this awareness encourages academics to turn a critical lens both on themselves and larger social issues, which in turn opens up new avenues of research On the other hand, we have seen the rise of authoritarianism and its accompanying assault on intellectualism, which, when combined with an already grim financial outlook for many universities (only exacerbated by COVID-19), threatens to defund academic institutions even further

A long intellectual tradition holds that gathering local waste, turning it into compost, and applying it to fields can remind us of ostensibly natural connections among humans, animals, and...

The author examines the discursive creative practice of the conceptual performance art group Collective Actions (Kollektivnye deistviia, abbreviated “KD”) during the post-Stalinist Soviet e...

Wilderness defines Americans, but the concept itself lacks definition, prompting premature laments of its demise and cavalier advocacy for its reformulation. I argue in this article that, i...

In this paper I present, evaluate, and discuss evidence that evolutionary and life history theory can inform our understanding of violence and warfare as well as how these human challenges are infl...

The Anthropocene debates are rooted in epistemological differences. Geologists seek temporal markers of spatially even anthropogenic impact. Thus, they favor geologic data that fit this cat...

The article focuses on impact of coronavirus in lives, politics and desires of people and mentions that that California governor Gavin Newsom has realized advantages of putting polices ahead of politics Topics disucsed include efforts of U S Congress to come to pass stimulus legislation, loss of genetic information not related to binding of RNA replicas and advantages of advanced cognition and ventilators

Recent studies of peacebuilding highlight the importance of attending to people’s local experiences of conflict and cooperation. This trend, however, raises the fundamental questions of how the loc...

A moral crisis can be personal, collective, or national. It is the perception of a critical accumulation of attitudinal changes that disrupt preexisting ethical norms and behavior. Most pub...

A famous matter of controversy in the Politics is the fact that Aristotle elaborates on two ways to preserve a tyranny while he simultaneously holds it to be the worst of regimes. In this n...

Since the early 2000s, public archaeology has begun to ask how archaeological education can be unfettered from preservation and stewardship, instead responding to wider educational or social needs ...

In response to papers by Langlitz on the position of the devil’s advocate and Van Dinther on morality and advocacy, I try to parse ethics, morality, and moralizing in light of my two recent studies...

This essay draws on Aihwa Ong’s conception of “fungible life,” applying it to the practice of stockpiling essential goods. It argues that stockpiling is not just a matter of gathering and storing t...

Drawing on debates in southern African anthropology, I suggest that where knowledge claims themselves are in question, comparison, uncertainty, and play may be critical in reframing debates about t...

This article continues and extends a conversation between environmental history and the broader environmental humanities, outlining and defining an approach to more-than-human histories. En...

This article proposes an interpretation of the intellectual origins of neoliberalism. Influenced by scientific modernism, its founders held that knowledge, being indeterminate and uncertain...

Discussions about diversity, equity, and inclusivity are becoming increasingly common in scientific societies. However, more concerted efforts are needed to recognize and challenge systemic...

In this article, I offer a fresh perspective on John Locke’s and Alexis de Tocqueville’s religious statesmanship that sheds light on the moral and political problems facing America today. B...

The Americanization of Europe has been an elusive and controversial topic for historians because it poses questions of definition, causation, development, and significance. This essay addre...

Although the concept of natural liberty played an essential role in the abolitionist movement, black abolitionist appropriations of the concept are generally reduced to Enlightenment categories of ...

The original 1920s debate between John Dewey and Walter Lippmann concerned whether the modern electorate can meaningfully engage in democratic self-rule rather than be ruled by technocratic...

The history of knowledge is today often presented as an expansion of the history of science. This article argues that it has a greater ambition. The definition of the history of knowledge u...

This article explores how cosmological currents contest and converse with one another to compose a shifting “cosmoscape” in Kaata, a community in highland Bolivia. Contrasting worlding practices encompass reciprocal relations between humans, ancestral mummies, and animate earth beings like mountains, and an emerging conviction that such nonhumans merely comprise natural resources for human exploitation. Challenging an easy contrast between modernity and animism as reified ontologies, I explore the community as a cosmoscape composed of conversations between these contrasting cosmological trends, surfacing circumstantially; while some villagers engage with wondrous currents of self-enrichment, many believe they will have catastrophic consequences. Mountain beings are the result of cosmopolitical colonial negotiations with the state rather than timeless constructs, and the community continues to equivocate their meaning through social movements at the state level, contesting the instrumentalized use of earth beings by the so-called indigenous state, which enables rather than contests extractivism.