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Christina Hourigan @treeseeker.bsky.social · 9d
Huge thanks to the team at @plantperspectives.bsky.social @whitehorsepress.bsky.social and @sarahwhpress.bsky.social for creating such stunning designs for our special #arborealhumanities issue!
Check out all the beautifully crafted papers, poetry and reviews at whp-journals.co.uk/PP/issue/vie...
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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 4d
🌳Exciting news! Our own Caroline Cornish & Christina Hourigan guest edited a special issue of Plant Perspectives on Tree Cultures & Arboreal Humanities.

From Kew tree biographies to literary & cultural stories, discover how trees can inspire both research and imagination👇

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 7d
‘Plant Perspectives’ 2.2 is now available online – entirely #openaccess thanks to our #subscribetoopen supporters and our generous individual donors. #plantstudies @plantperspectives.bsky.social
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 10d
We're delighted to announce publication of Greta Semplici's 'Moving Deserts', examining resilience among Turkana herders through fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork. More info: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #pastoralism. This book is #openaccess thanks to @openbookcollective.bsky.social!
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 1d
Issue 31.4 of Environment and History is out now! This special issue entitled "Dam Scientists: The limits of scientific knowledge and environmentalism" features 6 research articles, 2 snapshots, and 3 book reviews. Read online here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/31... #envhist🗃️
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 3d
We've put a new post up on our blog, in which Maria Kernecker explores how plants can provide a 'way in' to a landscape; the relates to her recently published article in 'Plant Perspectives'. #plantstudies @plantperspectives.bsky.social whitehorsepress.blog/2025/10/07/p...
Plants as a Way In
In this blog, linked to her recently published article in Plant Perspectives, entitled BETWEEN GRAZING AND GATHERING: PLANT KNOWLEDGES, BELONGING AND BECOMING IN THE SWISS ALPS, Maria Kernecker exp…
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 11d
‘Global Environment’ 18.3 is now live – and #openaccess online thanks both to our #subscribetoopen supporters and to the KOALA consortium. You can find the issue here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpge/cu... #envhist @globalenvironment.bsky.social
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 11d
We have a new blog post. Rithma Kreie Engelbreth Larsen interrogates the history of the ‘Ecological Indian’ trope and the surrounding debate – a discussion complementing her just-published article in 'Environment and History': whitehorsepress.blog/2025/09/25/e... @eandhwhp.bsky.social #envhum
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 7d
We hope you find plenty to explore in this new issue, which rounds out a brilliant second year for ‘Plant Perspectives’. If you like what you find here, please consider supporting the journal's future: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/support #openaccess #plantstudies
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 7d
There's also a poem by Dean Brink, and poetry by Shani Cadwallender with reflections on Eliza Cook; plus reviews of books by Sumana Roy (‘How I Became a Tree’; Aleph Books), Daniel Lewis (‘Twelve Trees; @simonandschuster.bsky.social) and ML Herring (‘Born of Fire and Rain’; @yalepress.bsky.social).
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 7d
The issue includes research articles on: tree biographies at Kew; Beatrix Potter and arboreal stewardship; Shelley and Wordsworth’s affinity for trees; the cultural history of Amherstia nobilis; Jamaican botanical resistance; American apple foraging; and the ‘moon trees’. #plantstudies #openaccess
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 7d
This is a special issue on ‘Tree Cultures and the Arboreal Humanities’, guest edited by Caroline Cornish and Christina Hourigan at Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social #plantstudies #openaccess
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 7d
‘Plant Perspectives’ 2.2 is now available online – entirely #openaccess thanks to our #subscribetoopen supporters and our generous individual donors. #plantstudies @plantperspectives.bsky.social
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 23d
This video was researched and produced at the Chinese University of Hong Kong by Duan Jiaqi, Qin Xiaoyi and Lu Ziyu. You can also watch the video on YouTube: youtu.be/wrxEnj8v5M4 #waste #recycling #China
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 23d
We’ve published a short video in ‘Worldwide Waste’, exploring how Cainiao, a global delivery company, runs its packaging recycling programme at a pick-up station in Shenzhen, China. The video and a short abstract are #openaccess here: doi.org/10.3197/whpw... #waste #recycling #China
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 25d
We've published another new article in 'Worldwide Waste', being Iris Borowy on 'Too Much Modernity or Too Little? Efforts Towards a Global Discard Policy at the International Reference Centre for Wastes Disposal, 1966–1976'. Online here: www.doi.org/10.3197/whpw.... #openaccess #waste
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 25d
We've published a new article in 'Worldwide Waste', in which Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko writes on 'Anthropocene Ouroboros: Shimmying Plastics and the Contamination of Time'. Online here: www.doi.org/10.3197/whpw... #openaccess #waste #plastic #anthropocene
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 25d
We've published a new book review online first in 'Plant Perspectives'; Ximena Sevilla reviews Diego Molina's book 'Planting a City in the Tropical Andes: Plants and People in Bogotá, 1880 to 1920'. Read it here: www.doi.org/10.3197/WHPP... @plantperspectives.bsky.social #plantstudies #envhist
Diego Molina, 'Planting a City in the Tropical Andes: Plants and People in Bogotá, 1880 to 1920' | Plant Perspectives
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · Sep 10
‘Nomadic Peoples’ 29.2 is now online – and #openaccess thanks to our many #subscribetoopen supporters. Check it out here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpnp/cu... #pastoralism
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 10d
In "The Contested History of the Ecological Indian Trope," Larsen revisits the 1990s scholarly debate over the ‘Ecological Indian’ as a pivotal moment in the history of Indigenous knowledge among anthropologists and conservation scientists. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3... #envhist 🗃️
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 10d
2 new ahead-of-print articles out now! In "Wildlife Corridors," Felten-Kury explores the interplay between imperial infrastructure, environmental dynamics and animal mobilities in colonial Southeast Asia. #envhist 🗃️https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3828/whpeh.63861480345877
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 10d
We've added a new post to our blog, presenting the second-prize-winning poster from #eseh2025 in Uppsala – Johannes Ellingsen’s visually striking poster investigates the resurgence of heath-burning in Norway. Online here: whitehorsepress.blog/2025/09/30/e... #envhist
ESEH / WHITE HORSE PRESS POSTER PRIZE 2025 – RUNNER-UP
We much enjoyed supporting the ESEH poster prize at the conference in Uppsala last month. Johannes Ellingsen’s striking poster, which was awarded second prize, impressed the judges with its v…
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 28d
We've published another article online first in 'Plant Perspectives, by Maria Lee Kernecker on 'Between Grazing and Gathering: Plant Knowledges, Belonging and Becoming in the Swiss Alps'; online here: doi.org/10.3197/WHPP... @plantperspectives.bsky.social #envhum #plantstudies
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 10d
We're delighted to announce publication of Greta Semplici's 'Moving Deserts', examining resilience among Turkana herders through fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork. More info: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #pastoralism. This book is #openaccess thanks to @openbookcollective.bsky.social!
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · Aug 29
Issue 9.2 of ‘The Journal of Population & Sustainability’ is now available – always #openaccess through the generous support of @popnmatters.bsky.social‬. You can find it here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/JPS/issue/vi... #population #environment
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 23d
'Plant Perspectives' is co-presenting an online event with Oak Spring Garden Foundation on 8th October – 'Plants, Memory belonging'. See attached for updated details; and you can register here: www.osgf.org/programs-and....
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