The Return of Malthus: Environmentalism and Post-war Population–Resource Crises
A monograph on the postwar fear of scarcity and the influence of “neo-Malthusians.”
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"Towards a Conceptualisation of Power in Fuelwood Access in Zimbabwe"
The authors illuminate the power relations between state actors and the local people in accessing fuelwood in Zimbabwe, and how discourses of scarcity enhance these power dynamics.
"Genealogies and Politics of Belonging: People, Nature and Conservation in the Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu"
The authors highlight how the Indian state increasingly views adivasis (=indigenous people) as a possible ethno-environmental fix for conservation, and how non-adivasis project their environmental subjectivities to claim that they, too, belong.
John Anthony Allan’s “Virtual Water”: Natural Resources Management in the Wake of Neoliberalism
Arcadia, Spring 2018, no. 11
Droughts and Scarcity before Independence in the Viceroyalty of New Granada, 1800–1810
Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 16
Singer, Peter, "Ethics and Climate Change: A Commentary on MacCracken, Toman and Gardiner"
Peter Singer argues that on any plausible principle, industrialised nations should be doing much more to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions than the Kyoto Protocol requires.
Les Invisibles de Belo Monte [Belo Monte's Invisibles]
This film gives voice to people affected by the development of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in the Brazilian Amazon, and details the devastating environmental and social consequences of the project.
Coffee To Go: Mit dem Geschmack der Vertreibung [Coffee To Go: With the Taste of Eviction]
This film reports on the eviction of villages near Mubende by the Ugandan army to clear land for a coffee plantation.
From Anti-Abundance to Anti-Anti-Abundance: Scarcity, Abundance, and Utopia in Two Science Fiction Writers
This essay looks at science fiction works by Philip K. Dick and Ursula Le Guin from the 1970s in which visions of scarcity are both critiques of abundance and utopian gestures. Today, Ramírez argues, scarcity has lost its critical power.
“Hang on to the words”: The Scarcity of Language in McCarthy’s The Road and Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
The consideration of scarcity as it is represented in literary texts can show us that the distinction of world and language is less stable than it might appear at first sight.