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Environmental History with an African Edge
With an emphasis on national parks, this article examines the kinds of environmental edges particular to South Africa and to Africa more generally.
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Minding the Gap: Working Across Disciplines in Environmental Studies
This volume of RCC Perspectives considers what it means to work across disciplines in environmental studies and how such projects can best be realized.
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Asian Environments: Connections across Borders, Landscapes, and Times
This issue of RCC Perspectives offers insights into similarities and differences in the ways people in Asia have tried to master and control the often unpredictable and volatile environments of which they were part
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The Journey of Sand: How the Yellow River Has Shaped Lankao County
This paper traces the journey of sand carried by China’s Yellow River to Lankao County, one of the locales most affected by sandification.
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Commodified Land, Dangerous Water: Colonial Perceptions of Riverine Bengal
Bengal’s essential character as a fluid landscape was changed during the colonial times through legal interventions that were aimed at creating permanent boundaries between land and water, with land given priority.
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Gangetic Floods: Landscape Transformation, Embankments, and Clay Brick-Making
The Gangetic basin, traditionally famous for huge crop production and rice farming, has witnessed gradual alteration in the land-use pattern over the last hundred years.
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Monsoon Landscapes: Spatial Politics and Mercantile Colonial Practice in India
For a long time, the British Empire saw the climate and the regional political strongholds of northeast India as insuperable obstacles to conquest.
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Colonial Rule versus Indigenous Knowledge in Bengal’s Western Frontier
Explores how the relationship of Adivasis to their surroundings was gradually reshaped under colonial rule in Bengal, leading to increased sedentarization of Adivasis through the extension of cultivation.
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Governing the “Wasteland”: Ecology and Shifting Political Subjectivities in Colonial Bengal
Looks at the changing governance practices towards agro-ecological resources and the political response that it received from the agrarian community in colonial eastern Bengal.
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Bonding with the Nonhuman World: Why People Feed Wildlife in Japan
Looks at popular esayari (animal-feeding) behavior in Japan, why people do it, and what its effects are.