“And it’s just when I think I’ve won the staring contest”: Viewing the World through Science and Poetry with Madhur Anand

In this interview, poet and ecologist Madhur Anand discusses her collection of poetry, A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes, with Alec Follett. She considers the poetic potential of scientific language as well as other topics related to her poetry and her research including field guides, biodiversity, and socio-ecological relationships

Pastoral by André Alexis

Review of Pastoral by André Alexis

Cabalcor: An Extracted History by Sun Belt

Review of Sun Belt\u27s Cabalcor: An Extracted History

Caribbean slavery, British abolition and the cultural politics of venereal disease in the Atlantic world

Venereal disease was commonplace among free and enslaved populations in colonial Caribbean societies. This article considers how contemporaries (both in the empire and metropole) viewed venereal infection and how they associated it with gendered notions of empire and masculinity. It further explores how creole medical practices evolved as planters, slaves, and tropical physicians treated sexually transmitted infections. Yet what began as a familiar and customary affliction was seen, by the late eighteenth century, as a problematic disease in the colonies. As medical theory evolved, placing greater attention on behaviour, British abolitionists focused on the sexual excesses and moral failings of Caribbean slaveholders, evidenced by their venereal complaints. The medicalization of venereal infection and its transition from urbane affliction to stigmatized disease helps explain a key problem in imperial history: how and why West Indian planters became demonized as debauched invalids whose sexual excesses rendered them fundamentally un-British. The changing cultural meanings given to venereal disease played an important role in giving moral weight to abolitionist attacks upon the West Indian slave system in the late eighteenth century. This article, therefore, indicates how changing models of scientific explanation had significant cultural implications for abolitionists, slaveholders, and enslaved people alik

Environmental Art and Activism: Editors’ Notebook

Editorial introduction to the special issue on environmental art and activism, The Goose, volume 17, issue 2 (2019)

Ohio Soil Test Summary 1971-72

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Weather, Weathering, Weathered: Editors\u27 Notebook

Editorial introduction to The Goose Volume 17, Issue 1 (2018)