Perspectives Article
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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Multimedia | journal article
"Genealogies and Politics of Belonging: People, Nature and Conservation in the Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu"
The authors highlight how the Indian state increasingly views adivasis (=indigenous people) as a possible ethno-environmental fix for conservation, and how non-adivasis project their environmental subjectivities to claim that they, too, belong.
Arcadia
The Beavercene: Eradication and Settler-Colonialism in Tierra del Fuego
Once introduced to promote the fur industry, beavers in Tierra del Fuego are now deemed an invasive population to be eradicated.
Arcadia
Problematic Postage: Canada’s Claim to the Arctic through a Postage Stamp
In 1955, the Canadian Post Office Department issues a stamp to highlight its effective occupation of the High Arctic.
Multimedia | journal article
"Zimbabwe’s Chinhoyi Caves: 1845-1945"
This study historicises environmental issues at the Chinhoyi Caves that are of contemporaneous resonance with the ecological crisis faced by the modern world. It deals with important themes like water-resource management, indigenous knowledge and its efficacy in the preservation of nature, colonialism and its environmental implications, forest use and deforestation, dislocation and displacement of indigenous people, and the interaction of the local with the global.
Multimedia | film profile
Oil & Water
This film follows two young men fighting to preserve the Ecuadorean Amazon. One is a member of the indigenous Cofan tribe, sent to the US for a Western education as a child; the other is an American college student.
Multimedia | journal article
"Restoration and the Affective Ecologies of Healing: Buffalo and the Fort Peck Tribes"
In this special section on affective ecologies, Julia Hobson Haggerty, Elizabeth Lynne Rink, Robert McAnally, and Elizabeth Bird study the restoration of bison/buffalo by the Sioux and Assiniboine tribes to their reservation in Montana in the United States. They argue that ecological restoration can promote and facilitate emergent and dynamic processes of reconnection at the scale of individuals, across species and within communities.
Multimedia | film profile
Monsterlachse [Monster Salmon]
This documentary examines the risks of farming transgenic salmon.
Perspectives
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
Arcadia
Landscape of Insecurity: The Intricacies of Environmental Changes in Nigeria’s Oil-Rich Niger Delta Region
Once a benefit to humanity but now a scourge, the environment of the Niger Delta has been transformed into a haven for violence, militancy, and criminality.