Relaunch of Seeing the Woods
05.04.2024
We are excited to announce the relaunch of the Rachel Carson Center Blog, Seeing the Woods. It is an outlet for everyone at the RCC, from staff and fellows to graduate and doctoral students pursuing research affiliated with the RCC.
Seeing the Woods’ mission is to demonstrate the relevance and importance of humanistic, historical, and social science perspectives in discussions on today’s environmental challenges. The blog endeavors to connect scholarship and public discourse as a bridge for finding and deepening our understanding of local and global environmental crises.
One of the biggest changes is the new thematic categories. As of 2024, all of the work published on Seeing the Woods falls under three main categories: Explorations, Imaginings, and Field Notes. Examples of each category include: think pieces, investigative essays, and critical reflections (Explorations); fictional stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world (Imaginings); and notes and reports from travels, field studies, and conferences (Field Notes). With these categories, the blog seeks to provide context that will help reveal the bigger picture, offering its readership new and stimulating angles from which to view the long and complex relationship between humans and the environment. Seeing the Woods showcases innovative research, valuable resources, and provocative commentary from experts in fields such as history, geography, literary studies, anthropology, and philosophy.
Of course, the many hundreds of blog posts published since Seeing the Woods was first launched in 2012 are still accessible on the new page, too. You can find them in the sidebar via Blog History.
The first blog post of the renewed Seeing the Woods is “The Wounds of War and What We Must Know” of the new blog series “Russian Environmental Politics: Reading between the Lines” by Vita Lacis. Read it here.