About this Journal

JHES-Journal for the History of Environment and Society is an open access journal that welcomes submissions on articles concerning Environmental History. JHES is published in collaboration with Brepols Publishers and can be obtained both online and in print.

The Journal for the History of Environment and Society (JHES) is an independent journal with a double-blind reviewing policy.

In its approach to environmental history JHES privileges comparative approaches as well as societal contextualisation. By looking at well-defined historical configurations of human actors and natural “actants”, bound together by social, economic and power relations, and interacting through technologies, institutions, perceptions and representations, we hope to foster our understanding of environmental history.

The Journal is also available in golden open access at Brepols Publishers Online.

  • Volume 5 • 2020 • COVID 19 & Environmental History

    Volume 5 • 2020 • COVID 19 & Environmental History


Introduction


Contents 

JHES Editorial Board

2021-03-31 Volume 5 • 2020 • COVID 19 & Environmental History

At the Edge of Resilience: Making Sense of COVID-19 from the Perspective of Environmental History 

Tim Soens, Raf de Bont and Maïka De Keyzer

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Articles


COVID-19, Climate, and White Supremacy: Multiple Crises or One? 

Eleonora Rohland

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Undoing the Discipline: History in the Time of Climate Crisis and COVID-19 

Amanda Power, Iva Peša and Eiko Honda

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Cholera, Corona and Trust in Numbers 

Joris Vandendriessche

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“Just the Flu” in 1323? The Case study of a Highly Contagious Epidemic with Low Mortality and Its Possible Origins in Late Medieval Europe 

Martin Bauch

2021-03-31 Volume 5 • 2020 • COVID 19 & Environmental History

Malignant Microbes: Using Environmental History to Connect the Fields of Plant and Human Epidemiology 

Matthew Plishka

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Politics of Movement: Exploring Passage Points in Responses to COVID-19 and the Plague in the Fifteenth-Century Netherlands 

Janna Coomans and Claire Weeda

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The “Normative Forces” of Difference: Ecology, Economy and Society during Cattle Plagues in the Eighteenth Century 

Dominik Hünniger

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It’s the Entanglements, Stupid 

Frank Uekötter

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The Human Body Must Be Defended: A Foucauldian and Latourian Take on COVID-19 

Bert De Munck

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Leviathan in Crisis 

Franz Mauelshagen

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What Could 'Carbofascism' Look Like? A Historical Perspective on Reactionary Politics in the COVID-19 Pandemic 

Antoine Acker

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Viruses, Practices and Perception 

Sebastian Haumann

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Invisible Inequalities: Persistent Health Threats in the Urban Built Environment 

Kara Murphy Schlichting and Melanie A. Kiechle

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Urban Porosity and Material Contamination: From Cholera to COVID-19 in Copenhagen 

Mikkel Thelle and Mikkel Bille

2021-03-31 Volume 5 • 2020 • COVID 19 & Environmental History

Keep Focusing on the Air: COVID-19 and the Historical Value of an Atmospheric Sensibility 

Robert-Jan Wille

2021-03-31 Volume 5 • 2020 • COVID 19 & Environmental History

Pandemics and Asymmetric Shocks: Evidence from the History of Plague in Europe and the Mediterranean 

Guido Alfani

2021-03-31 Volume 5 • 2020 • COVID 19 & Environmental History

A Modern Rendition of a Pre-modern Scenario: Imperfect Institutions and Obscured Vulnerabilities 

Bram Hilkens, Bram van Besouw and Daniel R. Curtis

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Environmentalism after the Pandemic 

Elliot Honeybun-Arnolda and Tim O'Riordan

2021-03-31 Volume 5 • 2020 • COVID 19 & Environmental History