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Publications

Viewpoints


At the Center for New Critical Politics and Governance we write and publish a series of special collections. We call them Viewpoints. Each edition contains a string of poignant, scholarly articles that speak to a common theme written by our invited authors. Viewpoints are published in collaboration with the journal Global Perspectives by UC California Press.
 

Latest Publications by Center Members

Eiko Honda

  • Honda, E. and Palmbald, J. ed., Multispecies Intellectual History, In., Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History (Munich: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society).
  • Honda, E. “The Multispecies Intellectual History of the Kumano Kodō: Minakata Kumagusu, Slime Moulds and Shrine Merger, 1906-1914” In., Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History (Munich: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society).   
  • Honda, E. “Minakata Kumagusu and the Microbial Turn in Theories of Evolution and Civilisation, 1887–1892” in Konishi, S., Bremner, L., and Dotulong, M ed., Reopening the Opening of Japan: Transnational Approaches to Modern Japan and the Wider World (Leiden: Brill, 2023)
  • Honda, E. “Minakata Kumagusu and the Emergence of Queer Nature: The Civilisation Theory, Buddhist Science and Microbes, 1887-1892” in Modern Asian Studies (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2023) Open Access.
  • Power, A., Peša, I., and Honda, E. “Undoing the Discipline: History in the Time of Climate Crisis and COVID-19” in Journal for the History of Environment and Society (Gent: Brepols, 2020) Open Access.
  • Honda, E. “Knowledge without Supremacy: Japanese Studies in the Face of Global Ecological Crisis” in Toshiba International Foundation 30th Anniversary Essay Contest (Berlin and Tokyo: European Association for Japanese Studies & Toshiba International Foundation, 2019) Awarded the Grand Prize. Access here.

Gauri Sanjeev Pathak

Coming up

  • Pathak, Gauri, Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko, and Mark Nichter. Accepted. The Cruel Optimism of Plastics: Promissory Technologies and the Temporality of Inaction. Social Studies of Science.

Published

  • Pathak, Gauri. 2025. The Statistical View Is Not the Moral View: Disposable Medical Plastics as Toxic Infrastructure. American Anthropologist
  • Pathak, Gauri, Mark Nichter, Anita Hardon, and Eileen Moyer. 2024. The Open Burning of Plastic Wastes Is an Urgent Global Health Issue. Annals of Global Health 90(1): 3.
  • Pathak, Gauri. 2023. “Building Local Capacity for Plastic Control,” Voices: Charting Success for the Plastics Treaty. One Earth (Cell press) 6(6): 578.
  • Pathak, Gauri, Mogens Hinge, and Daniel Otzen. 2023. Transdisciplinary Pragmatic Melioration for the Plastic Life Cycle: Why the Social, Natural, and Technical Sciences Should Prioritize Reducing Harm. Science of the Total Environment 895:165154.
  • Pathak, Gauri, Mark Nichter, Anita Hardon, Eileen Moyer, Aarti Latkar, Joseph Simbaya, Diana Pakasi, Efenita Taqueban, and Jessica Love. 2023. Plastic Pollution and the Open Burning of Plastic Wastes. Global Environmental Change 30(102648).
  • Pathak, Gauri and Mark Nichter. 2023. Navigating Crises of Scale in the Anthropocene: A Note to Engaged Anthropologists. Anthropology in Action 30(1): 24–32.
  • Pathak, Gauri. 2023. Plastic Politics: Industry Stakeholders and the Navigation of Plastic Control Policy in India. Environmental Politics 23(1): 135–156.
  • Pathak, Gauri. 2022. Nation Branding, Soft Hindutva, and Ecotraditionalism in Anti-Plastics Discourses in India. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 29(6): 768–786.
  • Pathak, Gauri and Mark Nichter. 2021. Ecocommunicability, Citizenship, and Discourses on Plastic Control in India. Geoforum 125: 132–139.
  • Pathak, Gauri and Mark Nichter. 2019. The Anthropology of Plastics: An Agenda for Local Studies of a Global Matter of Concern. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 33(3): 307–326

James Quilligan

  • Quilligan, J. 2015. What Earth Supplies and What We Need. Corvallis, Oregon: Resilience
  • James Quilligan; Who Will Pay Back the Earth? Revaluing Net Energy through the Sustainable Yield of Regional Ecosystems. Global Perspectives 31 January 2024; 5 (1): 122343.

Hagen Schulz-Forberg

Michael Eilenberg

  • Harrisson, Annika and Michael Eilenberg (2025) "Fences and Biosecurity: The Politics of Governing Unruly Nature”. Helsinki University Press.
  • Eilenberg, Michael and Jason Cons. (2025). Anticipatory Vectors: The Politics and Poetics of Non-Domesticated Pigs in Denmark and Texas. In Annika Harrisson and Michael Eilenberg (eds.) Fences and Biosecurity: The Politics of Governing Unruly Nature. Helsinki University Press. 
  • Harrisson, A. P., and Michael Eilenberg (2025). Where Fencing and Biosecurity Interlock: The Politics of Managing and Anticipating Risk. In Annika Harrisson and Michael Eilenberg (eds.) Fences and Biosecurity: The Politics of Governing Unruly Nature. Helsinki University Press. 
  • Harrisson, A. P., and Michael Eilenberg (2024). "Fenced In: Infrastructural Anxieties in the Danish-German Borderlands. Roadsides".12, 51-58.
  • Cons, J and Michael Eilenberg (2024) "Settler-Colonial Beasts - Feral Pigs and Frontier Assemblages in Texas”. Antipode, Vol. 56, (2): 424-445.
  • Eilenberg, Michael and Annika Pohl Harrisson (2023) "Fencing, Biosecurity and Wild Boar Politics in the Danish-German Borderland". Journal of Borderland Studies, Vol. 40(1), 159–177.
  • Eilenberg, M., & Harrisson, A. P. (2023). Boar-der Fencing: Human-Animal Relations in the Danish Borderlands. Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History, Summer 2023(8).

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