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What is a Whale? Cetacean Value at the Bering Strait, 1848–1900
Bathsheba Demuth looks at the value of whales for indigenous peoples around the Bering Strait.
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When Environmentalists Crossed the Strait: Subsistence Whalers, Hippies, and the Soviets
Ryan Tucker Jones recounts how environmental activist organizations came into conflict with indigenous groups in the Bering Straight.
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Ngarrindjeri Whaling Narratives and Reconciliation at Encounter Bay, South Australia
Adam Paterson and Chris Wilson consider Ngarrindjeri contributions to Southern Australia’s nineteenth-century whaling industry.
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Whales and Whaling in Puget Sound Coast Salish History and Culture
Jonathan Clapperton details the importance of whaling to Puget Sound Coast Salish people (Puget Salish) along the Pacific Northwest Coast.
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Te Aitanga a Hauiti and Paikea: Whale People in the Modern Whaling Era
Billie Lythberg and Wayne Ngata explore what it means to be whale people in the modern whaling period.
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Whale Peoples and Pacific Worlds
Joshua L. Reid concludes that the history of Pacific whaling has undergone a scholarly renaissance.
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“Narrative Ethics, Media and the Morality of the Ecological Modern: The Case of Sweden”
Full article by former RCC fellow Dominic Hinde.
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Interview with John Soluri and Claudia Leal, editors of A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, John Soluri and Claudia Leal are interviewed on their edited volume, A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America.
Multimedia | film profile
EHL VideoDictionary: The Brundtland Report
Iris Borowy on the Brundtland Report. This is an entry in the KTH EHL VideoDictionary.
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“Celebrating Jodha: And Revisiting the Commons”
In this article, Harini Nagendra, Pranab Mukhopadhyay, and Rucha Ghate celebrate Narpat S. Jodha and revisit his work on the commons in India.