Taking a closer look at the history of eco-images and their influence in current debates, this issue of RCC Perspectives analyzes the role of visual material in shaping environmental discourses.
This paper focuses on the 1987 to 1988 dumping of hazardous industrial waste in Koko, Nigeria. The paper critically analyzes the number, content, and contexts of cartoons that covered the toxic-waste dumping.
This paper looks at how the master-servant politics of British indirect rule (ruling the colonized through their traditional authorities and structures) related to the production of coal and coal-using industries in Nigeria.
State of the World 2007: Our Urban Future examines changes in the ways cities are managed, built, and lived in that could tip the balance towards a healthier and more peaceful urban future.
In this special issue on Disempowering Democracies, Emmanuel O. Nuesiri critically examines the United Nations’ REDD and REDD+ programmes (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation plus the sustainable management of forest and enhancement of carbon stocks) in Nigeria and finds them to exclude politically weak rural people.
Vanesa Castán Broto critiques sustainable development agendas that approach green cities as merely engines of economic growth.
This volume of Perspectives offers a collection of largely untold stories that demonstrate women’s agency in energy transitions.
Helbert raises the issue of justice in energy transitions by looking at the discrimination faced by women in oil regions of Nigeria.
In Earth First! Journal 22, no. 8 Puck recalls Hiroshima and celebrates civil disobedience, James Bell investigates how US navy sonars cause mass whale beachings, Sprig describes how Niger Delta women take on oil companies, and Jonathan Snapp-Cook reflects on the US-Mexican border policy.
This issue of Earth First! Journal features various stories about the actions to defend Adnyamathanha territory in Australia, the protest against genetic engineering, and the fight against industrial agriculture in Brazil. In addition, Felix Tuodolo tells the story of how Nigerian military opened fire on youths after Shell’s oil spill.
