Matt Plishka
@mattplishka.bsky.social
Environmental historian of ecological crisis, agricultural modernization, empire, bananas, and the 20th century Caribbean. Postdoctoral Fellow in the #EnvHum at Vanderbilt University. Go birds. He/him. #EnvHist
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Matt Plishka
@mattplishka.bsky.social
· Dec 9
Searching for Stability: Banana Blight and the Revitalization of Jamaica's Sugar Industry, 1910–1940
Abstract. This article analyzes the revitalization of Jamaica's sugar industry in the first half of the twentieth century and the overall shift in agricultural focus from bananas back to sugar in the ...
read.dukeupress.edu
My article with Agricultural History, "Searching for Stability: Banana Blight and the Revitalization of Jamaica's Sugar Industry, 1910-1940," explores banana disease through the lens of sugar, showing the larger effects of crop diseases on agroecosystems #envhist
read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural...
read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural...
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#envhum folks!
The 'Environmental Humanities' journal (Duke University Press) is currently looking for TWO (!!) new co-editors from January 2026 onwards!
Deadline: 31 March 2025
More information ⤵
environmentalhumanities.org
The 'Environmental Humanities' journal (Duke University Press) is currently looking for TWO (!!) new co-editors from January 2026 onwards!
Deadline: 31 March 2025
More information ⤵
environmentalhumanities.org
Environmental Humanities – A journal published by Duke University Press
environmentalhumanities.org
February 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
#envhum folks!
The 'Environmental Humanities' journal (Duke University Press) is currently looking for TWO (!!) new co-editors from January 2026 onwards!
Deadline: 31 March 2025
More information ⤵
environmentalhumanities.org
The 'Environmental Humanities' journal (Duke University Press) is currently looking for TWO (!!) new co-editors from January 2026 onwards!
Deadline: 31 March 2025
More information ⤵
environmentalhumanities.org
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While single-authored books and journal articles still hold a major place in the discipline, historians in the 21st century do so much more. Read accounts by 12 historians who delve into the diversity of scholarly work they do in #AHAPerspectives. 🗃️
What Is Scholarship Today? – AHA
Inspired by the AHA's Guidelines for Broadening the Definition of Historical Scholarship, a dozen historians share the diverse ways they do history today.
www.historians.org
January 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
While single-authored books and journal articles still hold a major place in the discipline, historians in the 21st century do so much more. Read accounts by 12 historians who delve into the diversity of scholarly work they do in #AHAPerspectives. 🗃️
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“We’re forgotten about here... nobody cares.”
A Coca-Cola plant pumps millions of litres of water in Mexico's San Cristóbal de las Casas. But locals say their faucets run dry.
So who is to blame for the water shortages? ⤵️
A Coca-Cola plant pumps millions of litres of water in Mexico's San Cristóbal de las Casas. But locals say their faucets run dry.
So who is to blame for the water shortages? ⤵️
‘Forgotten’: How one Mexican city struggles against big industry for water
A Coca-Cola plant pumps millions of litres of water in San Cristóbal de las Casas. But locals say their faucets run dry.
www.aljazeera.com
January 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
“We’re forgotten about here... nobody cares.”
A Coca-Cola plant pumps millions of litres of water in Mexico's San Cristóbal de las Casas. But locals say their faucets run dry.
So who is to blame for the water shortages? ⤵️
A Coca-Cola plant pumps millions of litres of water in Mexico's San Cristóbal de las Casas. But locals say their faucets run dry.
So who is to blame for the water shortages? ⤵️
Reposted by Matt Plishka
My article with Agricultural History, "Searching for Stability: Banana Blight and the Revitalization of Jamaica's Sugar Industry, 1910-1940," explores banana disease through the lens of sugar, showing the larger effects of crop diseases on agroecosystems #envhist
read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural...
read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural...
Searching for Stability: Banana Blight and the Revitalization of Jamaica's Sugar Industry, 1910–1940
Abstract. This article analyzes the revitalization of Jamaica's sugar industry in the first half of the twentieth century and the overall shift in agricultural focus from bananas back to sugar in the ...
read.dukeupress.edu
December 9, 2024 at 6:11 PM
My article with Agricultural History, "Searching for Stability: Banana Blight and the Revitalization of Jamaica's Sugar Industry, 1910-1940," explores banana disease through the lens of sugar, showing the larger effects of crop diseases on agroecosystems #envhist
read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural...
read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural...
My article with Agricultural History, "Searching for Stability: Banana Blight and the Revitalization of Jamaica's Sugar Industry, 1910-1940," explores banana disease through the lens of sugar, showing the larger effects of crop diseases on agroecosystems #envhist
read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural...
read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural...
Searching for Stability: Banana Blight and the Revitalization of Jamaica's Sugar Industry, 1910–1940
Abstract. This article analyzes the revitalization of Jamaica's sugar industry in the first half of the twentieth century and the overall shift in agricultural focus from bananas back to sugar in the ...
read.dukeupress.edu
December 9, 2024 at 6:11 PM
My article with Agricultural History, "Searching for Stability: Banana Blight and the Revitalization of Jamaica's Sugar Industry, 1910-1940," explores banana disease through the lens of sugar, showing the larger effects of crop diseases on agroecosystems #envhist
read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural...
read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural...
Reposted by Matt Plishka
Excited to share my latest piece with the @carsoncenter.bsky.social on a banana disease “cure” and questions of trust in times of ecological crisis #envhist
New 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 article: “Confidence in a Confidence Man: A Banana-Disease ‘Solution’ in Late Colonial Jamaica” by Matthew Plishka. Read it on our Environment & Society Portal!
@mattplishka.bsky.social #envhist
@mattplishka.bsky.social #envhist
Confidence in a Confidence Man: A Banana-Disease “Solution” in Late Colonial Jamaica
This article examines a “cure” for Panama disease in 1930s Jamaica, highlighting an attempt to profit off ecological vulnerability.
www.environmentandsociety.org
November 21, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Excited to share my latest piece with the @carsoncenter.bsky.social on a banana disease “cure” and questions of trust in times of ecological crisis #envhist
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Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office in January 2023, he inherited an environmental mess.
He is trying to turn that around and set Brazil on a path to end deforestation by 2030.
How is he doing? @gristnews.bsky.social checks in.
He is trying to turn that around and set Brazil on a path to end deforestation by 2030.
How is he doing? @gristnews.bsky.social checks in.
Can Lula still save the Amazon?
The power imbalance in Brazil's government that keeps environmental protections and Indigenous rights under threat.
grist.org
November 22, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office in January 2023, he inherited an environmental mess.
He is trying to turn that around and set Brazil on a path to end deforestation by 2030.
How is he doing? @gristnews.bsky.social checks in.
He is trying to turn that around and set Brazil on a path to end deforestation by 2030.
How is he doing? @gristnews.bsky.social checks in.
Excited to share my latest piece with the @carsoncenter.bsky.social on a banana disease “cure” and questions of trust in times of ecological crisis #envhist
New 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 article: “Confidence in a Confidence Man: A Banana-Disease ‘Solution’ in Late Colonial Jamaica” by Matthew Plishka. Read it on our Environment & Society Portal!
@mattplishka.bsky.social #envhist
@mattplishka.bsky.social #envhist
Confidence in a Confidence Man: A Banana-Disease “Solution” in Late Colonial Jamaica
This article examines a “cure” for Panama disease in 1930s Jamaica, highlighting an attempt to profit off ecological vulnerability.
www.environmentandsociety.org
November 21, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Excited to share my latest piece with the @carsoncenter.bsky.social on a banana disease “cure” and questions of trust in times of ecological crisis #envhist
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Amazing course this Spring at Vanderbilt University taught by my friend @phdjesus.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Amazing course this Spring at Vanderbilt University taught by my friend @phdjesus.bsky.social
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My latest article covering the crucial issue of Indigenous child separation on the eve of emancipation in Amazonia. The stolen generation of Brazil! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Child Separation and the Stolen Generation of Brazil: Indigenous Peoples’ (Un)Freedom in Amazonia | Latin American Research Review | Cambridge Core
Child Separation and the Stolen Generation of Brazil: Indigenous Peoples’ (Un)Freedom in Amazonia
www.cambridge.org
November 18, 2024 at 2:25 PM
My latest article covering the crucial issue of Indigenous child separation on the eve of emancipation in Amazonia. The stolen generation of Brazil! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Reposted by Matt Plishka
We are just shy of 75% of our annual fundraising goal!!!!
Can you donate $50 to help get us to this milestone?
fundrazr.com/niche2024?re...
#envhist #envhum
Can you donate $50 to help get us to this milestone?
fundrazr.com/niche2024?re...
#envhist #envhum
NiCHE Needs You in 2024: Support for Environmental History & Community
The Network in Canadian History and Environment is a not-for-profit public history organization dedicated to the dissemination of environmental history research in Canada and building a network of res...
fundrazr.com
November 13, 2024 at 6:14 PM
We are just shy of 75% of our annual fundraising goal!!!!
Can you donate $50 to help get us to this milestone?
fundrazr.com/niche2024?re...
#envhist #envhum
Can you donate $50 to help get us to this milestone?
fundrazr.com/niche2024?re...
#envhist #envhum
If you do any work in the Humanities, consider applying for a 3 year postdoc at Vanderbilt in the Collaborative Humanities!
Apply for a Postdoc
Position Title: Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Program Close Date: February 2, 2025 The Program Vanderbilt University’s College of Arts and Science and the Robert Penn Warren Center for the H...
as.vanderbilt.edu
November 12, 2024 at 12:19 AM
If you do any work in the Humanities, consider applying for a 3 year postdoc at Vanderbilt in the Collaborative Humanities!
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For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free
Another world is possible if we fight for it
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
Another world is possible if we fight for it
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
November 9, 2024 at 8:22 PM
For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free
Another world is possible if we fight for it
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
Another world is possible if we fight for it
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
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PSA:
1. In addition to this thread, there are a number Starter Packs for all kind of interests and communities, 3598 at last count. Browse through them here - blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
2. You can ask to be included in relevant lists, most curators are looking for new accounts to add.
1. In addition to this thread, there are a number Starter Packs for all kind of interests and communities, 3598 at last count. Browse through them here - blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
2. You can ask to be included in relevant lists, most curators are looking for new accounts to add.
November 9, 2024 at 4:23 PM
PSA:
1. In addition to this thread, there are a number Starter Packs for all kind of interests and communities, 3598 at last count. Browse through them here - blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
2. You can ask to be included in relevant lists, most curators are looking for new accounts to add.
1. In addition to this thread, there are a number Starter Packs for all kind of interests and communities, 3598 at last count. Browse through them here - blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
2. You can ask to be included in relevant lists, most curators are looking for new accounts to add.
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A thread of Historian Starter Packs to help find your communities.
First Pop Culture and Media:
bsky.app/profile/herm...
First Pop Culture and Media:
bsky.app/profile/herm...
As promised, the Popular Culture and Media Studies starter pack! If you work in this realm and would like to be added, just let me know. :) I wanted us all to be able to find each other here.
go.bsky.app/JtBHuwU
go.bsky.app/JtBHuwU
November 8, 2024 at 9:05 AM
A thread of Historian Starter Packs to help find your communities.
First Pop Culture and Media:
bsky.app/profile/herm...
First Pop Culture and Media:
bsky.app/profile/herm...
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We just maxed out the Environmental History Starter Pack! This means you can follow 150 environmental historians and #envhist institutions by clicking a button. We would happily create a second pack. Let us know if you want to be in it!
November 8, 2024 at 10:52 AM
We just maxed out the Environmental History Starter Pack! This means you can follow 150 environmental historians and #envhist institutions by clicking a button. We would happily create a second pack. Let us know if you want to be in it!
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At last, there's a searchable directory of Bluesky starter packs, courtesy of @mubashariqbal.com! Just one more way third-party developers are helping to make this place better.
Search starter packs by keyword, and sort by "Uses" to see which ones people are finding the most helpful
Search starter packs by keyword, and sort by "Uses" to see which ones people are finding the most helpful
All - Bluesky Directory
A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
blueskydirectory.com
November 8, 2024 at 3:58 AM
At last, there's a searchable directory of Bluesky starter packs, courtesy of @mubashariqbal.com! Just one more way third-party developers are helping to make this place better.
Search starter packs by keyword, and sort by "Uses" to see which ones people are finding the most helpful
Search starter packs by keyword, and sort by "Uses" to see which ones people are finding the most helpful
Hi everyone! Happy to join the flock moving to BlueSky. I'm an environmental historian writing about ecological crisis, plant disease, agricultural modernization, and empire in the 20th century Caribbean. I'm currently a postdoc at Vanderbilt. Eager to join the #envhist and #skystorians community!
November 7, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Hi everyone! Happy to join the flock moving to BlueSky. I'm an environmental historian writing about ecological crisis, plant disease, agricultural modernization, and empire in the 20th century Caribbean. I'm currently a postdoc at Vanderbilt. Eager to join the #envhist and #skystorians community!
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It's more important than ever to support your public library. #Libraries are community. They are about opening minds and opening doors. Get a library card, and check out books. Download Libby. Libraries need the stats for funding, which is now uncertain. And thank your librarian.
We love you.
We love you.
November 6, 2024 at 8:47 PM
It's more important than ever to support your public library. #Libraries are community. They are about opening minds and opening doors. Get a library card, and check out books. Download Libby. Libraries need the stats for funding, which is now uncertain. And thank your librarian.
We love you.
We love you.