Zazu Dreams: Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle, A Cautionary Fable for the Anthropocene Era
By Cara Judea Alhadeff, PhD. Eifrig Publishing, 2024.
Merging fictional and nonfictional worlds, Zazu Dreams: Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle, A Cautionary Fable for the Anthropocene Era is a climate chaos adventure fable and resource encyclopedia that explores the relationships among cross-cultural spiritualities, socio-political diversity, and biodiversity. In his dreams, Zazu, an Arab-Jewish boy, travels the globe on a humpback whale, crossing vast time and space. Learning from scientists, healers, engineers, architects, philosophers, musicians, and artists, many of whom are refugees and ...
Gianfranco Selgas: May 2025 Scholar of the Month
ASLE’s Scholar of the Month for May 2025 is Gianfranco Selgas.
Gianfranco Selgas is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University College London (UCL). His research focuses on the culture, media, and history of nature extraction and energy across Latin America and the Caribbean. His most recent publications include the book Regionalismo ensamblado: Cultura, ecología política y extractivismos en Latinoamérica (1930-1940) (Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2025), guest-editor of the special issue Energy Matters: Latin America and the Cultural Critique of Energy (Environmental Humanities, vol. 17, ...