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"Humans and Forests in Pre-colonial Southeast Asia"
Until about fifteen centuries ago the interaction of humans with the Southeast Asian rainforest was primarily one of interdependence…
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"Environmental Histories of South Asia: A Review Essay"
Two broad themes taken up in the literature will be the focus of this essay: how far colonialism was an ecological watershed, and how producers responded to new pressures. The third issue is of what we can or should learn (or unlearn) from the colonial experience.
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Review of Situating Environmental History, edited by Ranjan Chakrabarti
Debojyoti Das’s review of an environmental history reader containing essays by Karl Jacoby, Alok Kumar Ghosh, Arun Bandopadhyay, Archana Prasad, Vinita Damodaran, Ritajyoti Bandhopadhyay, Kaushik Roy, Arabinda Samanta, Amal Das, Sahara Ahmed, Jagdish N. Sinha, Sumit Guha, Rita Pemberton, Lawrence G. Gundersen, and Tridib Chakraborty.
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Boomgaard, Peter, et al., eds. Muddied Waters: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Management of Forests and Fisheries in Island Southeast Asia
This collection of essays examines the history of human interaction with forest and marine ecosystems in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, where many of the contributors have conducted fieldwork.
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Manufactured Landscapes
This film is a photographic journey showing the effects of human activity on a variety of landscapes.
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Challenges to Fieldwork before 1914 and Today: Adaptation, Omission, Rediscovery
The challenges for mountain fieldwork today are different than those faced by researchers a century ago. This article looks at differences in funding, surveying practices, and academic networks and debate.
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Nuclear Nation
This film follows the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in the former “exclusion zone” town of Futaba.
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Sushi: The Global Catch
This film questions the sustainability of the four billion dollar global sushi industry, which has put the Blue Fin Tuna at risk of extinction.
Perspectives
Unruly Environments
Bringing together scholarship from across the globe, this volume of RCC Perspectives aims to shed light and stimulate discussion on the past, present, and future of the “unruly” environments that frustrate efforts at social and environmental control.
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Life Size Memories
Two former photojournalists bring a large format camera to Southeast Asia to portray Asian elephants living in captivity and to record their biographies.