As of 1 September 2010, I’m a research scholar in Department II of the Max Planck Institute for the the History of Science, where I’m participating in a project on the Sciences of the Archive. The project aims to historicize “data” — a concept which, as my colleagues at the MPIWG write, has typically been considered “too basic to merit a history.” Continue reading “conservation biology and the regulatory archive”
Category: conservation
‘a difficult time with the permit process’
The Journal of the History of Biology is publishing a special issue on environmental history under the guest editorship of Libby Robin and Jane Carruthers. It’s not yet in print, but all of the articles are now available online, including my “A Difficult Time with the Permit Process.” Continue reading “‘a difficult time with the permit process’”
wired wilderness
Just added a note about my forthcoming book, Wired Wilderness (click here or on the link in the sidebar). It still needs to be proofread and indexed and won’t be on the shelves until December, but after working on it for six years or so it feels pretty good to see that page on Amazon.
Review of Mark Cioc, The Game of Conservation: International Treaties to Protect the World’s Migratory Animals
Review of The Game of Conservation: International Treaties to Protect the World’s Migratory Animals by Mark Cioc (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009). Environment and History 16 (2010): 509-511. (pdf)