By HÉLÈNE B. DUCROS and NICK OSTRUM | Energy humanities have to be more than a good citizen revolt against oil and a steady march towards the sanctuary of electricity. They are a falling forward to the unknown, open to the practitioner, lay person, scholar, and any entrepreneur trying to make something happen in the energy space.

By JOHN PICKLES | At the core of the desire for transformation is a fundamental demographic challenge, revolving around the kind of future young Bulgarians can hope for. The mobilization of social media and symbolic politics shaped the protest movement in ways that other parts of Europe and beyond may well need to pay attention to.

By ELIZABETH B. JONES | The damage to the Black Sea’s aquatic ecosystem and the Kakhovka Dam breach are the most extreme examples of what many scientific and legal experts now call Russia’s ecocide against Ukraine and, indeed, the entire region.

Translated by JESSIE MENDEZ SAYER | Seaside towns are more antisocial, more hesitant to change, there’s less gossip. Nobody can say, not even the local authorities, or the neighbors with their houses they passed down for several generations, what goes on inside the fortresses facing the breakwater.

By DOMINIQUE LUTRINGER | Through restrained modulations of color and line, pictorial spaces are constructed where light drifts, shadows hesitate, and the viewer is invited into a quiet, attentive form of looking.

This month’s recent book recommendations by GlobalEurope editors HÉLÈNE B. DUCROS, EDINA PALEVIQ, and OKSANA ERMOLAEVA: Indigenous art at the Venice Biennale, media in the disinformation age, and forced labor in the modern world.