conflicts
Flood Levels and Borderlines: Livestock Farming and Evictions Resistance at the !Garib/Orange River in Southern Africa
Voices of the Peace
Arcadia, Summer 2020, no. 32
Interview with Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver, authors of An Environmental History of the Civil War
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver are interviewed on their new book, An Environmental History of the Civil War.
A Complicated Relationship: The Transhumant Pastoralists of Macedonia and the Greek State, 1913–1936
Arcadia, Summer 2020, no. 29
The Polluted Past of the Whaling Town Hachinohe
Arcadia, Spring 2020, no. 16
"The Political Ecology of Human-wildlife Conflict: Producing Wilderness, Insecurity, and Displacement in the Limpopo National Park"
The author analyzes the increase of human-wildlife conflict (HWC) in Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park due to conservation-induced displacement.
"Beyond Contesting Limits: Land, Access, and Resistance at the Virunga National Park"
Stephan Hochleithner argues that multi-dimensional resistance to Virunga National Park’s conservation strategies ties in with general conflict dynamics in eastern DRC, while at the same time reproducing them within the realm of nature conservation, tightly interwoven with global dynamics.
"Itineraries of Conflict in Arundhati Roy’s Walking with the Comrades"
Alok Amatya studies the depiction of indigenous struggles against the grab of minerals, crude oil, and other natural resources by private and government corporations in works such as Arundhati Roy’s travel essay Walking with the Comrades (2010). He suggests that narratives of conflict over the extraction of natural resources can be studied as the corpus of “resource conflict literature,” thus generating a global comparative framework for the study of contemporary indigenous struggles.
Whaling at the Margins: Drift Whales, Ainu Laborers, and the Japanese State on the Nineteenth- Century Okhotsk Coast
Noell Wilson details Japanese attempts to integrate modern-day Hokkaido into the Tokugawa political sphere via drift-whale policy.