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Performing extinction stories: Exploring creative responses to bee decline (2022)
Journal Article
Portus, R. (2023). Performing extinction stories: Exploring creative responses to bee decline. Text and Performance Quarterly, 43(2), 95-110. https://doi.org/10.1080/10462937.2022.2134583

As extinction becomes one of the most pressing crises of our time, projects that engage with nonhuman lives have emerged as a visible fixture of the creative landscape. This raises the question of what role creative explorations might play in shaping... Read More about Performing extinction stories: Exploring creative responses to bee decline.

The tale of an ecological whodunit (2022)
Journal Article
Portus, R. (2022). The tale of an ecological whodunit. BeeCraft Magazine,

This article considers how the colony collapse disorder crisis framed the decline of honeybee populations as an ecological whodunit. The work examines how this framing led to global interest in the bee decline, and has since encouraged significant ac... Read More about The tale of an ecological whodunit.

An ecological whodunit: The story of colony collapse disorder (2020)
Journal Article
Portus, R. (2023). An ecological whodunit: The story of colony collapse disorder. Society and Animals, 31, 242–260. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685306-BJA10026

As life on Earth becomes increasingly precarious, it becomes ever clearer that, while some nonhuman losses are perceived as tragic and controversial, many more are left to slip away, unnoticed and unmourned. The purpose of this study, then, is to det... Read More about An ecological whodunit: The story of colony collapse disorder.

Bees, extinction and ambient soundscapes: An exploratory environmental communication workshop (2019)
Journal Article
Portus, R., & McGinn, C. (2019). Bees, extinction and ambient soundscapes: An exploratory environmental communication workshop. Humanities, 8(3), Article 153. https://doi.org/10.3390/h8030153

As a response to the challenges that visual communication, popularly used in environmental communications, poses for more embodied engagements with climate change, this article focuses upon the neglected role of sound within environmental and climate... Read More about Bees, extinction and ambient soundscapes: An exploratory environmental communication workshop.