Rivers Without Rhythm? Intermittent geographies and non-perennial rivers
For some time now I have been interested in why social scientists and humanities scholars pay so little attention to rivers that run dry. By length, these rivers…
Author: jeremy schmidt
Ambient water weaponisation: the permeation of violence in the hydrosphere
Together with Cameron Harrington (Durham University), I’ve co-authored a new article on water weaponisation in the journal Political Geography. It is open access and free to access, and…
Before the Boundary Waters Treaty [new article!]
My latest article is now out in a special issue of the American Review of Canadian Studies. In it, I look at the decade (or so) before the…
Minecraft and Alberta’s Oil Sands: From environmental health to virtual extraction
Some time ago, I noticed that the Alberta Geological Survey had produced an extension to the game Minecraft. I was curious about it, since it allowed players to…
Glacial Deaths, Geologic Extinction: my latest article now in Environmental Humanities
In my most recent article I examine what it might look like to think about extinction beyond species. I start with the increasing number of funerals for glaciers…
Five new books in series on Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations
From Humans and Nature and Co-edited by Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and John Hausdoerffer We live in an astounding world of relations. We share these ties…
Alternatives to the Anthropocene: CFP for special issue in Radical History Review
See the full Call for Papers here; a blurb is posted below. Key deadlines: June 1 for abstracts, November for full papers. A Call for Proposals from the…
New book on, The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth
The Red Nation A powerful guide to Indigenous liberation and the fight to save the planet. One-part visionary platform, one-part practical toolkit, The Red Deal is a platform…
Leanne Simpson: A short history of the blockade
Lianne Simpson’s new book, A Short History of the Blockade is now out with the University of Alberta Press. She gave this talk recently on it:
New book from Jamie Lorimer: The Probiotic Planet: Using Life to Manage Life
A great new book from Jamie Lorimer out soon from University of Minnesota Press. From the publisher’s website: Most of us are familiar with probiotics added to milk…
New (free!) book on Blue Ethics: Ethical Perspectives on Sustainable, Fair Water Resources Use and Management
This open access book, available in French or English, is pitched at the intersection of policy and ethics. A description below and a link to the site to…
Michael Sandel on the Tyranny of Merit: What becomes of the common good? (his new book)
Nice interview with Michael Sandel on his new book out this week (or soon, depending where you are).
Arendt in the Anthropocene, our new paper on Being Earthbound
I’m happy to say that a new paper I co-wrote with Oliver Belcher is now out and open-access with Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. The article…
Violence against land defenders
There is important new work on the violence against land defenders worth reading over the summer. Here is a recent article in Global Environmental Change and a write…
Patchy Anthropocene: Special Issue from Current Anthropology
I’m sure my ‘copy-and-paste’ will have some issues below [or not! many of the links seem to be working properly], so the direct link to this interesting set…
New Book: Andreas Malm’s, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Latest from Andreas Malm moves from his initial work in history (Fossil Capital), to the polemical conceptual book (Progress of this Storm) to a call for civil disobedience.…
New Book: Simon Dalby’s Anthropocene Geopolitics
A great looking new title from Simon Dalby from the University of Ottawa Press. Anthropocene Geopolitics: Globalization, Security, Sustainability We now find ourselves in a new geological age:…