👋 Hello, dear community! Outreach coordinator Emma here to share how things are going at EHN right now 🧚♀️
Transnational and heat-wave themed reading for you at EHN this month: helping you make sense of the changing energy landscape in the Arctic, and examining wildfires in Los Angeles and Northern Mexico. Plus, if you’re looking to take action, a how-to on publishing an edited collection.
🧊 Katrine Ehnhuus shared the latest installment of our ongoing series, “Making Sense Of…” to bring greater meaning to the Arctic’s energy dilemma. The EU is revising its Arctic strategy, which means dealing with competing geopolitical and environmental action pressures, writes Katrine. Yet she and her colleagues at ActionAid Denmark’s Nordic Center for Sustainable Finance remind us that “If energy security becomes synonymous with expanding fossil fuel infrastructure, Europe risks reproducing the very dependencies and insecurities it seeks to escape. That is why this debate cannot be left to fossil fuel interests alone.” This piece was such a clear and cogent exploration of EU environmental geopolitics, and I recommend checking it out and staying tuned for updates on this important news story. You can read it here.
🔥 Alyssa Spence’s piece, “Wildfires Across Borders: Comparing Impacts in Los Angeles and Northern Mexico,” examines the geopolitics of the climate crisis from another relevant angle: wildfires. Alyssa examines the 2024/2025 wildfire seasons in LA and Northern Mexico, which had similarly devastating ecological consequences but exemplified disparities in relief efforts, media coverage, and the wealth of those affected. Reading this underscored the transnational nature of wildfires for me, and brought home — again — that the meaning of national borders changes dramatically with an ecological perspective. I’d also highly recommend this one as a quick addition to an undergrad syllabus! You can read Alyssa’s essay here.
📚 Raechel Lutz has written a guide, “How to Publish an Edited Collection,” which is part of our Tools for Change series. Raechel outlines her own experience editing the recent and excellent New Jersey’s Natures: Environmental Histories of the Garden State and co-editing American Energy Cinema. She includes the four steps of publishing an edited collection and some general tips, which are not only helpful for those of us working on edited collections, but also demystify some elements of the publishing process. I’ll be bookmarking and returning to this one — you might want to as well! You can read Rachel’s piece here.
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🌬️We received a record number of submissions from May’s Call for Abstracts — and our Google Doc reviewing them was full of enthusiastic comments from the executive team! Watch this space for exciting pieces by FLINTA* grad students and ECRs coming soon to an internet near you.
🥰 Missed our CfA this time around? Stay tuned on Substack, Instagram, and Bsky for the next one 🥰
🎆 We’re so excited to welcome new team members who volunteer their time and expertise to keep EHN running and thriving.
Enaiê Azambuja, Marie Comuzzo, Ailish Lalor, Alex Jacobs, and Valeria Zambianchi have joined our content editing team.
Tuba Arooj, Amanda Coate, Simone Holmes, and Matthew Wilson have joined our review editing team.
Thank you, new team members, for your work and enthusiasm! We’re so excited for you to join us.
🏳️🌈 As Pride Month comes to a close, we want to take a moment to wish you all a very happy Pride! As a FLINTA*-led team, we’re committed to sharing the work of women, trans, and nonbinary folks in the environmental humanities all year round, but we love June a little extra 🌸 We hope your Pride was joyful and sparkly ✨
☀️ For July, our newly expanded editorial teams will be working with authors to bring you new essays. Things might be a little quiet around here while we revise, research, and rest, but we’ll see you at the end of the month for an update. Don’t forget to rest this month, and look out for each other! If you’re feeling isolated in your AC, or too toasty on the train, or if you just want something good to read, check out “Making Sense of the Arctic’s Energy Dilemma,” “Wildfires Across Borders: Comparing Impacts in Los Angeles and Northern Mexico,” “How to Publish an Edited Collection,” and the EHN archives.
We love doing this work, and we’re grateful to you for supporting it! Keep in touch.
Until next time,
Emma and the EHN team 💐
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