By Hélène B. Ducros
EuropeNow features a selection of scholarly articles and books on topics pertinent to the teaching of Europe or teaching in Europe that were published within the last 5 years.
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Reviewed by Yotam Tsal
Examines the nexus of environmentalism and decolonization to shed light on the political and economic interests behind the construction of…
By Sean Ireton
Ecosophy thus implies an “identification so deep that one’s own self is no longer adequately delimited by the personal ego or the organism…”
By Shira Shmuely
The plausible inclusion of cephalopods and crustaceans in animal welfare legislation reveals the central role of science in shaping the moral and legal obligations towards nonhuman animals.
By Prudence Gibson and Sharon Willoughby
Banksia serrata (B. serrata) is a species of native Australian tree that catches stories of colonial dominion, botanical naming controversies, and Indigenous knowledge in its branches.
By John Charles Ryan
In its radically-open otherness, lichens materialize more-than-human wisdom—the knowledge of the world expressed by intelligent beings other than humans.
By Vicente Raja
To show that (at least some) plants are able to exhibit goal-directed behaviors to cope with their environments may have dramatic implications for our understanding of plants as biological systems, but also as cognitive, or even sentient systems.
By Richard J. White and Hannah C. Gunderman
A fundamental cause of human neglect of, and violence toward, insects can be directly placed at the door of anthroprivilege, which, crucially, is learned behavior.
Reviewed by Nora Gortcheva
The anthology Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna (editor Noah Isenberg, translator Shelley Frisch) provides a long-overdue translation of Billy Wilder’s early writings in German (1924-1933).
