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Remembering and Igniting Fires: Prescribed Burns as Memory Work
Sutherland explores the practice of controlled burning in Canadian national parks.
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Out of the Mountains: Changing Landscapes in Rural China
Zhen Wang’s photo essay explores in detail how nearly 40 years of urbanization and rapid economic development have transformed the past, present, and future of the Yi population and of China’s rural and cultural landscapes.
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Energizing the Spaces of Everyday Life: Learning from the Past for a Sustainable Future
This volume of Perspectives offers case studies of energy transitions within everyday environments over the last two centuries, from Europe to South Asia, to North and Latin America.
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How Households Shape Energy Transitions: Canada’s Great Transformation
Ruth Sandwell examines people’s energy-related experiences in the transition from the organic to the mineral fuel regime in Canada.
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Renewable Energy and Class Struggles: Slurry and Stratification in Germany’s Energy Transition
Jennifer Carlson examines the material and social dimensions of contemporary energy transitions in the village of Dobbe in the East Frisian Peninsula.
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Do Wastelands Exist? Perspectives on “Productive” Land Use in India’s Rural Energyscapes
Jennifer Baka looks at energy cultivation and energy security in India through an analysis of two energy development programs.
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Experimenting with Energyscapes: Growing up with Solar and Wind in Auroville and Beyond
In this article, Sarah Strauss and Carrick Eggleston track the transition to renewable energy in the village of Auroville in South India.
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The Reverse of the Sublime: Dilemmas (and Resources) of the Anthropocene Garden
Serenella Iovino uses the garden as a lens to analyze the impacts of old and new forms of aestheticizing nature on the geology of our planet.
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Storytelling and Environmental History: Experiences from Germany and Italy
Through a combination of memory, experience, and archival research, this volume explores the connection between storytelling and the writing of environmental histories in Germany and Italy.
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Making Sense of Water: A Personal Quest into the History of Irrigation
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg discusses the ways water management policies shaped the landscape of his childhood during the years of the Fascist regime in Italy.