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S. Ravi Rajan provides an extended and critical reflection on impurity and danger in the technocene, exploring in great detail the ways that risk, disaster, and vulnerability have been implicated in discussions by a variety of disparate scholars and schools of thought across various disciplines in recent decades."—Ruth Sandwell, author of Powering Up Canada: The History of Power, Fuel, and Energy from 1600 "Rajan skillfully examines risk, disa...

S. Ravi Rajan provides an extended and critical reflection on impurity and danger in the technocene, exploring in great detail the ways that risk, disaster, and vulnerability have been implicated in discussions by a variety of disparate scholars and schools of thought across various disciplines in recent decades."—Ruth Sandwell, author of Powering Up Canada: The History of Power, Fuel, and Energy from 1600 "Rajan skillfully examines risk, disa...

Modernizing Nature contributes to the debate regarding the origins, institutionalization, and politics of the sciences and systems of knowledge underlying colonial frameworks of environmental management. It departs from the widely prevalent scholarly perspective that colonial science can beunderstood predominantly as a handmaiden of imperialism. Instead, it argues that the myriad "colonial" sciences had ideological and interventionist traditio...

Environmental historians from the BRICS nations offer new perspectives about the topic~The papers represent a solid dialogue that could be emulated by other institutions and the governments~Well thought text about state, civil society and environmental historiography from these five countries