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Mandala’s Edge
By Ben Shread-Hewitt (@HewittShread) Outside the bustling city of Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand is overwhelmingly rural and mountainous. Its landscape is starkly divided – barren rocky fields abut verdant cloud forests, and small village horticulture stands next to vast monocrops of maize. It is a region in the middle of a long – and now…
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15. A Lump of Coal
By Ben Shread-Hewitt (@HewittShread) Coal in your stocking might be the sign of a bad Christmas, but it could be worse. In Edward I’s London, being found with coal in your stockings might mean death. In the 14th century, air pollution was a growing problem in England’s capital city. Increasing populations and local deforestation were…
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Colonial ecological control and aristocratic privileges: a study of big-game hunting in Indochina
By Clémentine Ducasse Dashing through the night, a car hurtled madly down the banyan tree-lined road. The car headlights, dazzling in the darkness of the jungle, met two luminous reflectors. A shot! The mad dash ended. Two men stepped out of the car and came closer to glimmering eyeballs belonging to an exhausted, soon-to-be-dead tiger.…
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