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Ecopolitical Space in a Riverine Landscape of South Asia
The article shows how ecological and geographical features influence the configuration of political space within a region.
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Multimedia | journal article
“Inequalities in the Land: Colonial Legacies and the Quest for Land Equity in Zimbabwe”
A reflection on the use of images in environmental history.
Multimedia | book, full-text
Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands
Full text of Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands, edited by Rachel Carson Center almunae Milica Prokić and Pavla Šimková,
Multimedia | film profile
Decent Work in Darjeeling
This documentary tells the story of the porters in the Eastern Himalayas.
Multimedia | film profile
The Landhaus Cohort 2023/24, Winter Research Forum Film
This short film documents the experience of the RCC Landhaus fellows in 2023 and 2024.
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The Sierra Nevada Still in Peril
Introduces a short-lived Forest Service framework for landscape-based land management and wildland fire management in California’s Sierra Nevada from the 1990s.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
“Fathoming the Oceans Through History”
Former RCC Fellow Helen Rozwadowski presents her perspectives on the ocean and its history.
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Climate Disaster, Ecoanxiety, and Frankenstein: Mount Tambora and Its Aftereffects
Ecoanxiety in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein signals our ability to create art in reaction to environmental disaster in increasingly unstable planetary futures.
Multimedia | journal article
“Researching the Ebola Reservoir with the Heuristic of the Fetish in Guinea”
Through exploring virology research and its dangers in post-Ebola Guinea, this article argues that the hypothesis of a bat reservoir has taken on a heuristic role that can be compared to the way that a fetish polarizes relations between the people who manipulate and fear this idea.
Multimedia | journal article
“La ‘prochaine épidémie’: Domination et émergences”
This review of Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary, published by Christos Lynteris on the brink of the COVID-19 epidemic, problematises the tension between a dominant pandemic imaginary, perpetuated by outbreak preparedness policies and the media, and an emergent imaginary, historically and geographically.