"Introduction: Familiarizing the Extraterrestrial / Making Our Planet Alien" In this introduction to their Special Section "Familiarizing the Extraterrestrial / Making Our Planet Alien," editors Istvan Praet and Juan Francisco Salazar discuss the growing research on the wider universe and how it is apprehended by modern cosmology, and how the extraterrestrial has become part of the remit of anthropologists, philosophers, historians, geographers, scholars in science and technology studies, and artistic researchers, among others.

Researchers across the social sciences and environmental humanities argue that modern cosmology enshrines a cosmic imagination that blends science with aesthetic judgment, rendering knowledge of the universe as mediated and interpretive, while… #aliens #environmentandsociety #ovni #uap #ufo #ufosky

The Plastic Bag: From a Mundane Swedish Innovation to the World’s Oceans

'The Plastic Bag: From a Mundane Swedish Innovation to the World’s Oceans' - an article in the #EnvironmentAndSociety Collection of @carsoncenter.bsky.social and @whitehorsepress.bsky.social:

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Marcy Norton, <i>The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492</i>

'Marcy Norton, The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492' - an article in the #EnvironmentAndSociety Collection of @carsoncenter.bsky.social and @whitehorsepress.bsky.social on #ScienceOpen:

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Environment and Society Collection of The Rachel Carson Center and The White Horse Press <p>Curated by the Rachel Carson Center in Germany and The White Horse Press in the United Kingdom, the “Environment and Society Collection”&nbsp;is a collaborative, international project intent on for...

🌎📚 The #EnvironmentAndSociety Collection of @carsoncenter.bsky.social and @whitehorsepress.bsky.social is a collaborative, international project that foregrounds and rethinks environment–society interactions from multidisciplinary and global perspectives.

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The image is a flyer for our MA program Master of Arts Environment and Society. In the upper right corner is a note saying "Deadline closes soon" with a few exclamation marks. The center is a photograph of a red chair in the middle of high grass and a forest. Below are the key words to characterize the MA: interdisciplinary, innovative, international. Deadline is 10 March 2025.

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