Episode 17: "Virtual Field Trips, Automobiles, and Global Commodity Chains"
Graduate students from around the world talk about their collaborative work on a virtual environmental history field trip organized by the NiCHE New Scholars group.
Graduate students from around the world talk about their collaborative work on a virtual environmental history field trip organized by the NiCHE New Scholars group.
This volume brings together a range of studies of cycling and cyclists, examining some of the diversity of practices and their representation.
Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia challenges the idea of indigenous knowledge and cultures as static,and explores multiple facets of ethnoecology and mobility in Amazonia and beyond.
This collection highlights three quintessentially Canadian themes: seasonality, links between mobility and natural resource development, and urbanites’ experiences of the environment through mobility. It divides the intersection of environmental and mobility history into two approaches. The chapters in the first section deal primarily with the construction and productive use of mobility technologies and infrastructure, as well as their environmental constraints and consequences. The chapters in the second section focus on consumers’ uses of those vehicles and pathways: on pleasure travel, tourism, and recreational mobility.
An edited volume on mobility in the landscape.
This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands”—written and curated by historian Nina Möllers.