Journey to the Safest Place on Earth
This film examines the limitations and contradictions of finding safe places for nuclear waste storage.
This film examines the limitations and contradictions of finding safe places for nuclear waste storage.
Energy-from-waste plants in places like Britain were designed help reduce waste and carbon emissions, but they have had unintended side-effects.
The premises of water allocation legislation came under harsh scrutiny in the early 2000s as severe drought plagued the American Southwest.
Beginning in the pre-modern world, the Volga and Mississippi Rivers both served as critical trade routes connecting cultures in an extensive exchange network, while also sustaining populations through their surrounding wetlands and bottomlands. In modern times, “Mother Volga” and the “Father of Waters” became integral parts of national identity, contributing to a sense of Russian and American exceptionalism. Rivers, Memory, and Nation-Building discusses their histories, through which we derive a more nuanced view of human interaction with the environment, which adds another lens to our understanding of the past.
Kamikōchi is the southern gateway to the Japan Alps, which in 1934 was one of the first areas in Japan to be designated a national park. This was the result of a rapid rise to prominence that followed a 1927 newspaper poll of Japanese landscapes.
Driving Germany is an in-depth exploration of the relationship between environmental and trafiic history in Germany, set against the political and ideological background of National Socialism.
The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective takes an anthropological approach to Africa’s Upper Guinea Coast. It portrays a historically globalized region which has adapated creatively to major transformations and still remains a major actor within global networks.
A tertian fever epidemic occurred in Barcelona from 1783 to 1786 and affected approximately one million people.
Anti-nuclear activism in Denmark was characterized by information campaigns and peaceful marches.
Gisli Palsson’s afterword for the Special Section on Familiarizing the Extraterrestrial / Making Our Planet Alien, edited by Istvan Praet and Juan Francisco Salazar, concludes that outer space matters for anthropology and, likewise, anthropology matters for those concerned with space politics and space research.