St Andrews Article Prize 2023

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St Andrews Article Prize 2023 Winner

Efrat Gilad (2022): Camel Controversies and Pork Politics in British Mandate Palestine, Global Food History, DOI: 10.1080/20549547.2022.2106074 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20549547.2022.2106074

This article brings animal studies, breeding and food history to shed new light on the history of post-war migration to British Mandate Palestine. Apart from shedding light on a region that has mostly escaped environmental history, it stands out for its originality in writing environmental histories of the non-human world and geopolitics of the 20th century as an entangled history.

St Andrews Article Prize 2023 Honorable Mention:

Eugene Costello, ‘The Colonisation of Uplands in Medieval Britain and Ireland: Climate, Agriculture and Environmental Adaptation’. Medieval Archaeology 65:1 (2021): 151-179. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00766097.2020.1826123

The paper is a review of archaeological, geological, documentary evidence of uplands settlement. The paper is a careful review of local resilience in spite of adverse climatic conditions. The paper upends traditional deterministic models and calls for careful study of adaptation and local landscape context. It is an excellent example of how environmental history must develop by using the fullest range of evidence and multi-disciplinary inquiry.

Committee:
Debjani Bhattacharyya (chair), University of Zürich
Małgorzata Praczyk, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
Poul Holm, Trinity College Dublin