Monica Vasile 🐾

During fieldwork in Mongolia, 2022,with an orphaned takhi (Przewalski's horse) foal named Bataa

During fieldwork in Mongolia 2022

Big thanks to the many wonderful people who helped me see this piece through: @wildpasts.bsky.social @rafdebont.bsky.social @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social Franklin Ginn, Andrea Gaynor, Stefan Voicu, David Moon, two anonymous reviewers..
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3/ I explored animal biography, an approach that intrigued me since I read @docroscher.bsky.social’s work. I traced individual life stories to see how far scattered records would let me reconstruct the mares’ trajectories.
Animal biographies matter because they reveal animals as historical actors.

2/ The article argues that reintroducing endangered species is less a triumphant and reassuring “homecoming” than a slow, uncertain “homemaking” where animals and humans together forge new wild lives and animal cultures 🐴 Metaphors matter in #wildlifeconservation but they can be misleading.

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Reintroduction of Przewalski's horses in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, 1990s. Transported by aircraft, arriving in crates. Photo by ITG, Ruth Baumgartner.

1/ Happy to share that my article “Beyond Homecoming: The Reintroduction of Seven Przewalski’s Mares in the Gobi Desert” has been published in Environmental Humanities.

It is the story of seven mares flown from Australian zoos to Mongolia’s Gobi Desert in the 1990s
doi.org/10.1215/2201... #envhist

Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities - Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies An open and collaborative platform for interdisciplinary, humanities-led environmental research.

we'll be expanding and updating the @uio-oceh.bsky.social site over the summer, so I figure why not throw open the question.

dear internet ( #EnvHum in particular ): what would you change to make this a better and more useful site for you? what works, what doesn't?

www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english...

Oh the wolverine 🙂 is basically a cat

New paper on harms-based political ecology - Beastly Business Our team members Alison Hutchinson, Rosaleen Duffy, George Iordachescu and Teresa Lappe-Osthege developed an idea of bringing together debates on harms from green criminology with political ecology co...

1/ 📄New paper! Alison Hutchinson @georgeiorda.bsky.social Teresa Lappe-Osthege & myself have developed a new harms-based #PoliticalEcology as a way of understanding the #WildlifeTrade published in @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social ⬇️
beastlybusiness.org/2025/07/23/n...

Awesome paper, congrats! ✨️🎊

Mark your calendars for #ESEH2025 we'll host a networking event with drinks and snacks 🍹🍟 on Tuesday 19.08. evening. All folks welcome!! 🌿
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Five critical questions we should ask of rewilding projects—And that social science can help us answer Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

📢 Our new #rewilding #paper is now out in @peopleandnature.bsky.social

We show how #interdisciplinary critical #socialscience can help enhance social and environmental #justice in #conservation

Available FREE #openaccess here 👉 🔗
doi.org/10.1002/pan3... 🌎🧪

Working on #EnvironmentalJustice topics in Central and Eastern Europe? Then you might want to send an abstract for the conference 'The Greyzone of the Green Transition' that I'm co-organizing with my colleagues from Sibiu next year in Romania (18-19 May 2026).
Participation is free of charge!

Beaver activists claim they are 'doing God's work' An underground network illegally releases beavers but farmers say it can lead to trouble.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Check out Evelyn Brister's review of Betsy L. Howell's "Wild Forest Home: Stories of Conservation in the Pacific Northwest," published in 2024 by @uofupress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #conservation
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Who's going to SOLCHA this year? #envhist #envhum #historiaambiental

Environment & History 31.3 is live! This issue includes five new articles as well as two open-access snapshots. Read here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications...

Nice to see Segregated Species on display at #BSHS2025

Dear folks,
Check out this list of books up for review, sign up and claim one! 📚🌿
It’s a brilliant way to read something great and get your name out there.

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Was lovely to have you join us, Sarah! All the best for your book!

Prize — ICEHO

We are very excited to announce a new #EnvHist award: the 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞! In honor of longtime contributor to the field and former ICEHO president Verena Winiwarter, this prize will serve to promote global environmental history articles. Read more here: www.iceho.org/prize

ESEH (@eseh@historians.social) 84 Posts, 93 Following, 215 Followers · News from the European Society for Environmental History. Toots by the president (https://hcommons.social/@wilko), mostly with content from the Society's communications team.

I just updated the feed of the European Society of Environmental History with announcements from the last couple of weeks!

https://historians.social/@eseh

Follow us for (irregularly updated—I'll do better, I promise!) #envhist news!

Please consider supporting the Biodiversity Heritage Library! #envhist #envhum

This fall, The Greenhouse is offering three 5 ECTS micromodules @unistavanger.bsky.social, based in environmental history & humanities, online and open for all to take. #envhist #envhum

Senior Research Associate: Plants, Enslavement, and Public History at University of Bristol Discover Senior Research Associate: Plants, Enslavement, and Public History jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

JOB: Senior Research Associate: Plants, Enslavement, and Public History at University of Bristol, UK
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www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK213/s...

Just completed this year's edition of our Writing Support Programme! Brilliant participants, papers & discussants✨️ Big thanks to all! @etnobioannavarga.bsky.social @sarahparkhouse.bsky.social @harrycroft.bsky.social @rubyekkel.bsky.social @yaronbalslev.bsky.social @lailaia2.bsky.social

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Special question for #histtech and #envhist nerds: I am looking for work on the history of corrosion protection and/or maintenance work in piping systems. Any tips would be greatly appreciated 🤓

🚨Job Alert 🚨 🐕‍🦺 🐄🐎🐦‍⬛
Do you have project management skills & an interest in human-animal relations? We are recruiting a project manager role (5 years) for our new project (info in the 🧵) @sheffielduni.bsky.social
📆 deadline 30 June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO134/p...

Call for Panels, Papers, and Posters to present at ASEH 2026 is now open!

American Society for Environmental History - @aseh.bsky.social

More Information: aseh.org/ASEH-Confere...

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Hello colleagues who teach Canadian #envhist: what animal-related films (long or short) have you shown in class that you like? Suggestions appreciated! #cdnhist #envhum cc @nichecanada.bsky.social

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New article in Osiris, entitled 'Flying Rhinos', in which I follow two northern white rhinoceroses to discuss the entanglement of mid-twentieth century zoo conservation, colonialism and celebrity culture: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...