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Biography and Scientific Endeavour
This article looks at how environmental life histories have been used for particular purposes.
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How to Read a Bridge
In this short article, Rob Nixon reflects on a visit to South Africa and the relationship of the various kinds of inequality present in societies.
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Constructing and De-constructing Communities: Tales of Urban Injustice and Resistance in Brazil and South Africa
This article considers the parallels between the community of Lady Selborne, a township near Pretoria, South Africa, and the neighbourhood of Cidade de Deus (City of God) in Rio de Janeiro.
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Dangerous Territory: The Contested Space Between Imperial Conservation and Environmental Justice
This article looks at romantic and critical narratives around protected areas, and highlights how Jane Carruthers’ writing refuses to embrace either.
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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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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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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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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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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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The Flight of Cranes: Militarized Nature at the North Korea–South Korea Border
Conservation areas within the Korean demilitarized zone generate new “natures” that are deeply political and enmeshed in evolving relations among humans and nonhumans, as seen using the example of migratory cranes.