Standing on Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Tourists
This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of how two indigenous communities, in Russia’s Republic of Altai and in California, are resisting government mega-projects.
This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of how two indigenous communities, in Russia’s Republic of Altai and in California, are resisting government mega-projects.
The history of Puckapunyal Military Training Area illustrates how war and the environment interact in sometimes unexpected ways.
Environmental building in Australia as a form of communing with nature.
Frawley’s essay explores oyster populations and technologies in southern Queensland in the late nineteenth century.
Kathryn M. de Luna explores the gendered micropolitics of knowledge production through a case study of Botatwe-speaking societies (ca. 750–1250) in south central Africa.
Berros describes some of the first cases in which Rights of Nature was directly referenced in the courts of Ecuador.
Sutherland explores the practice of controlled burning in Canadian national parks.
The author works on the notion of “watershed encounter” as a diverging point in history to analyze which watershed encounters shaped the Chesapeake Bay region. He argues that current restoration efforts, far from solving the current issues, only exacerbate them.
Christine Hansen uses the concept of deep time to challenge the idea that never-before-witnessed events are unprecedented. Using the case of a massive firestorm in 2009 in southeast Australia, she calls into question the shallow temporal frames through which deep time environmental phenomena are understood in Australian settler culture and offers an insight into often unnoticed ways in which contemporary society struggles with the colonial legacy.
The authors draw on empirical experience to assess the extent of the impact of race and social equity in conservation, with the aim of promoting sustainable and more inclusive conservation practices in South Africa. Their findings suggest conservation practices in post-apartheid South Africa are still exclusionary for the majority black population.