Published in Environmental Humanities, 2023, 15, (1), pp. 164-167, Duke University Press

As a concept, edge has multiple intellectual genealogies, from ecology to business studies and cultural theory.¹ In each field it has slightly different connotations, but it maintains a basic shared meaning: it signifies a transition zone between different systems. In this lexicon entry, we explore the edge as an intermingling of diverse elements. Attending to the rich possibilities resulting from such interactions is significant to interdisciplinary scholarship in the environmental humanities, and in this entry, we summarize edge as a traveling concept in ecology and cultural theory, providing examples to think about and work with edges.