{"title":"Little Grey Men? Animals and Alien Kinship","authors":"Sandra Swart","doi":"10.3197/ge.2023.160102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3197/ge.2023.160102","url":null,"abstract":"This essay confronts the lack of vernacular, indigenous or local knowledge in human-animal history and pushes it back into Deep History. It analyses the shifting meanings of the occult baboon and the alien 'other' in South Africa's syncretic and synchronic cosmologies. It asks why it\u0000 is the baboon - out of all the animals - who came to be a witch's familiar? It asks why the tokoloshe, a supernatural sprite, became baboon-esque? In answering these questions, it uses Freud's notion of 'alien kinship' - the ancient attraction and anxiety induced by baboon as the uncanny,\u0000 the alien, the changeling, the shape-shifter - or the 'Other within' us. It examines not only the changing role this understanding of the supernatural baboon has played in human societies historically (including a new role created by the tabloids) but the concomitant consequences for baboons\u0000 themselves - to show that 'animal history' can advance a 'usable past'.","PeriodicalId":42763,"journal":{"name":"Global Environment","volume":"83 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72717706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fish as a Resource and a Curiosity in International Exhibitions at the End of the Nineteenth Century","authors":"J. Lajus","doi":"10.3197/ge.2023.160104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3197/ge.2023.160104","url":null,"abstract":"Fish and other water edible animals are the most numerous wild creatures that still are perceived as natural resource. Their individuality in perception by humans is mostly not recognised. In this paper I would like to discuss how fish were displayed and perceived at the World Fairs\u0000 and specialised Fisheries Exhibitions that were quite numerous between 1880 and the beginning of the First World War. Among them the Great International Fisheries Exhibition in London in 1883 was the most significant and abundant and provided much material that remains not well studied by\u0000 historians. Many fishing nations provided booklets and other materials for the exhibitions; the reception of the displays was discussed in scientific and popular publications and public media that included also visual materials. Why did fish become the object of such interest to the general\u0000 public? What kind of stories were different nations and regions trying to tell through these displays and publications? How did fish link and divide people, especially the experts? Fisheries, as a sector of the economy, united archaic technologies and culture with the call for progress and\u0000 modernisation. In addition, interest was concentrated around animals from whom humans felt removed at a large distance but who mystified them by their diversity in shape, colours, movement and, finally, taste.","PeriodicalId":42763,"journal":{"name":"Global Environment","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82772633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: New Geographies in Animal History","authors":"R. H. Duarte, Sandra Swart, J. Soluri","doi":"10.3197/ge.2022.160101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3197/ge.2022.160101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42763,"journal":{"name":"Global Environment","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91259636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Short-Lived Zebu and Beef Boom in Cuba Before the 1959 Revolution: A Socio-Environmental Approach","authors":"Reinaldo Funes Monzote","doi":"10.3197/ge.2023.160107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3197/ge.2023.160107","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, Animal History has gained influence within the environmental History of Latin America and the Caribbean. Animal environmental histories centred on livestock, however, remain limited. Therefore, more confluences between these perspectives could be fruitful in the future.\u0000 Here we seek to integrate perspectives from socio-economic histories of livestock with those from animal studies by examining the history of the zebu boom for beef production in Cuba during the 1940s and 1950s. The success of this breed in the Americas in the twentieth century was possible\u0000 due to the zebu's tolerance of tropical heat and humidity. Still, as the article shows, it is essential to consider economic, social and political contexts to understand the history of zebu. Finally, with the triumph of the 1959 revolution, the importance of the Cuban Zebu declined after the\u0000 revolutionary government prioritised milk production over beef.","PeriodicalId":42763,"journal":{"name":"Global Environment","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77165930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Giulia Guazzaloca, Primo: non maltrattare. Storia della protezione degli animali in Italia","authors":"Sabrina Schettino","doi":"10.3197/ge.2023.160108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3197/ge.2023.160108","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42763,"journal":{"name":"Global Environment","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76011972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Global EnvironmentPub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.3828/whp.ge.63830891682096
Stephen Chignell
{"title":"Notes from the Icehouse: Mixed Methods, Dry Valleys, New Insights","authors":"Stephen Chignell","doi":"10.3828/whp.ge.63830891682096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/whp.ge.63830891682096","url":null,"abstract":"!e McMurdo Dry Valleys are a polar desert and the largest icefree region of Antarctica. !ey were discovered in 1903 on the \"rst expedition of British explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who, seeing the bare rock and lack of plants, called the area ‘a valley of the dead’. While Scott and his party pressed on for the South Pole during his second, and ultimately fatal, Antarctic expedition, a team led by Australian geologist Gri#th Taylor spent the \"rst week of February 1911 exploring, photographing and surveying the Dry Valleys.1 No one visited the region thereafter until it became a focus of research during the International Geophysical Year (IGY) in","PeriodicalId":42763,"journal":{"name":"Global Environment","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135201198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intertwined Lives: Animals in Mining Disasters in Brazil","authors":"R. H. Duarte","doi":"10.3197/ge.2023.160106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3197/ge.2023.160106","url":null,"abstract":"The issue of animals in high-risk situations is prominent in a world increasingly disrupted by socio-environmental disasters caused by big companies' activities and climate change. This paper focuses on the consequences for domestic and wild fauna caused by a colossal disaster in Mariana,\u0000 Brazil, in 2015. I propose that disasters open a contact zone between humans and nonhuman animals. They bring insight into the connections of different living beings that share land, water and air. They establish a human-nonhuman border-crossing experience. Compensating programmes must consider\u0000 a holistic dimension when evaluating the damage to be repaired, as all living beings and things are intertwined.","PeriodicalId":42763,"journal":{"name":"Global Environment","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80738751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Human-Animal Relations and Livestock Disease Management in Postcolonial Zimbabwe, c.1980 to 2022","authors":"Wesley Mwatwara","doi":"10.3197/ge.2023.160105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3197/ge.2023.160105","url":null,"abstract":"The history of livestock disease management strategies in colonial Zimbabwe has generally revealed uneven and racialised access to conventional veterinary facilities that favoured white- over black-owned livestock. In light of this context, this article examines the human-animal relationships\u0000 that emerged in post-colonial Zimbabwe when access to such facilities was liberalised in a new era in which communal livestock owners still had broken interrelations with the state. In articulating this, it also explores factors that precluded communal livestock farmers from raising 'healthy'\u0000 livestock. Using qualitative methods, it discusses how the postcolonial state failed to provide robust state veterinary services, and demonstrates communal farmers' agency amidst loss to epizootics and enzootics. As this study will show, livestock diseases and the challenges they posed significantly\u0000 impacted on how humans (communal farmers) determined which animals to raise and how to raise them. It concludes that livestock diseases and the human-animal relationships that emerged out of the quandary posed by the former, had a negative impact on state-communal livestock farmer relationships,\u0000 and promoted the continued relevance of otherwise officially despised livestock knowledge regimes in Zimbabwe's communal areas.","PeriodicalId":42763,"journal":{"name":"Global Environment","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80423344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The History of the Anthropocene: Meanings and Research Trajectories","authors":"E. Luciano","doi":"10.3197/ge.2022.150307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3197/ge.2022.150307","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past two decades, the Anthropocene has become a concept of multidisciplinary interest and research. A topic of particular interest has been the history of the Anthropocene. The underlying ambiguity of this topic opens it up to four different meanings, each engendering a discrete\u0000 research trajectory within the emerging field of Anthropocene studies. The present contribution maps these four research trajectories stemming respectively from geology, Earth system science, environmental history and conceptual history. It also explores ways in which these histories overlap,\u0000 complement or conflict with one another in understanding the global phenomenon that the Anthropocene represents. As the concept of the Anthropocene grows into a social, political and even educational vehicle for environmental communication, organising knowledge in and of the Anthropocene is\u0000 an urgent task. This task requires going outside disciplinary comfort zones and engaging with neighbouring as well as distant disciplines with curiosity so as to disclose the full potential of the Anthropocene concept.","PeriodicalId":42763,"journal":{"name":"Global Environment","volume":"119 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77482923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}